Drug

Store on Fifth Avenue

"It's the intimidation, the competition, the pace, struggle and ultimately the growing glimmer of success that make this city like no other drug out there. It isn't for everyone, and if it isn't for you, there is no point trying to explain New York. But for the rest of us who brave the streets and all the shit that comes along with it, there isn't a better place in the world."
Greg Jacobs, The Huffington Post

New York From Afar

View from Williamsburg

"New York is confusing to me. I love the Velvet Underground's take, and Woody Allen's grainy Manhattan, the New York City of the seventies. That town can have hundreds of personalities—not the people, the town itself. I like it better from afar, but I'm always thankful it exists."
Jack White, quoted in Meet Me in the Bathroom

Too Large

"The only trouble about this town is, that it is too large. You cannot accomplish anything in the way of business, you cannot even pay a friendly call, without devoting a whole day to it."
Mark Twain, The Quotable Mark Twain