Olympic Sport

The Mall

"My favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter."
Michael Ventre, quoted in You Don't Say

New York in the Winter

Bow Bridge

"There's nothing more wonderful than New York City in the winter -- except the view of New York City through your apartment window."
Ted Mosby (Bob Saget), How I Met Your Mother

Wedding Cake

"In winter, when the darkness always comes before you expect it and all those lights begin to pinch through the stale mist, New York becomes a gigantic wedding cake."
Don DeLillo, Americana

Winter Hell

West 42nd Street

"During the winter months in New York City, everyone runs around like animals cursing everyone else in every language imaginable, the parking stinks, and every time you go to cross the street in Times Square or someplace, you end up getting splashed with dirty sewer water. All that plus it's cold as hell out."
M. Dylan Raskin, Little New York Bastard

What Runs Beneath

Bryant Park

"In New York, even in winter, the whole place is open and filled with possibility. It's the energy here, I say, the way it runs beneath the surface of everything."

Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened

Particularly Cold

Sara Delano Roosevelt Park

"It was a particularly cold winter in New York. It always seemed to be particularly cold in New York."
Kinky Friedman, Ten Little New Yorkers