Leaving New York

George Washington Bridge and Jeffrey's Hook Light 

"The more I travel, the calmer I feel when I return to New York. This city has a way of getting under your skin sometimes. Things can get hyperbolic and it seems as if everyone is floating on supercompressed hot air, which can be stifling. And when you feel like this place is too much, and you are ready to leave, you go on a trip somewhere—anywhere—and soon you cannot wait to get back. What's the phrase? 'Nothing makes you love New York more than when you leave it'?"
Toyin Ojih Odutola, Vice 

Bad to Cute

Williamsburg Landing

"That's another reason I love New York. Just like that, it can go from bad to cute."
Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Sex and the City

City of Contradictions

"New York is the most glamorous city in the world, the most romantic, the noisiest, the dirtiest, the best, the worst, the most exciting, the most depressing. No two people have experienced the same New York twice."
Jonathan Scheff, New York City Icons: 50 Classic Slices of the Big Apple

Extravagant City

World Financial Center Plaza

"City of wharves and stores — city of tall facades of marble and iron! Proud and passionate city — mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!"
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass