Obsolete

"A city like New York is obsolete. People will no longer concentrate in great urban centers for the purpose of work. New York will become a Disneyland, a pleasure dome."
Marshall McLuhan, The New York Times

Profanity

Chelsea

"I've often left a theater saying, 'Why is there so much unnecessary profanity in that movie? No one actually talks like that!' Then I started working each week in New York. Guess what? People do talk like that!"
Mike Huckabee, God, Guns, Grits and Gravy

Snob

Battery Park

"Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it snob . . . whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world."

Russell Lynes, New York: The Big Apple Quote Book