Staten Island

St. George Terminal

"If you don't know what Staten Island is, it's like New York's abortion that lived."
Pete Davidson, Gothamist

Functional City

Fifth Avenue

"Another reason I love living in New York is the fact that it's a functional city. Obviously not in the psychological sense — I mean as a collection of people we're as psychotic-ally challenged as anyone else — but in a practical sense, New York functions like nowhere else on earth. Everybody does something, provides some service, everyone, everything, has a purpose."

Bella Pollen, Hunting Unicorns

Coexistence

"In its own chaotic way, New York is a triumph of coexistence interrupted by people yelling at each other."
Rebecca Solnit, Nonstop Metropolis