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But there is one thing about it – once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. John Steinbeck
By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience—if they did they would live elsewhere. E.B. White
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. Angela Carter
Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like traveling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar. Kenneth Tynan
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream. Helen Keller
If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe. Ellen R. Shapiro New York Attitude Quotes
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a ‘typical American.’ Djuna Barnes
New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: oh, that’s who I am. Unknown
In New York, the opportunities for learning, and acquiring a culture that shall not come out of the ruins, but belongs to life, are probably greater than anywhere else in the world. Thomas Wolfe
I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal. Henrik Lundquist
Empire isn’t just about New York. It’s about hope. No matter where we’re from, we all want the opportunity to work hard and breathe life into our ambitions. Alicia Keys
It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world. Timothy F. Cahill
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks. Teju Cole
New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the center of the world, the lion’s den. Zubin Mehta
There was so much here, so much color and taste and light and motion. So much pain and so much hope. The city was ugly and beautiful at once, and it was always changing, always reintroducing itself to you; you couldn’t look away even for a moment, or you might miss the New York of today, which would be different from tomorrow’s New York and next week’s New York. Katharine McGee
I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question. Dylan Thomas
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, ‘There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.’ Robert de Niro
I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance. Nora Ephron
New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her alluring white face and hiding her crooked hands and feet under the folds of her wide garments–constantly enticing thousands from far within, and tempting those who come from across the seas to go no farther. James Weldon Johnson
If you’re greedy for life, that’s what New York is all about. If you’re trying to get as much as you can every day, this city is the place to be. Pam Nelson
Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. Joan Didion
My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are. Bill Murray
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village – the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up. E.B. White
I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. Rick Riordan
People never forget two things: their first love and their first day in New York City. Unknown
I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards: New York. Milos Forman
Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. John Steinbeck
I mean, it’s awesome, but it’s also a little bit New York awesome, you know? How do I explain how I felt about it? I guess … well … in New York City people spend ten years making something amazing happen, something that captures the essence of an idea so perfectly that suddenly the world becomes ten times clearer. It’s beautiful and it’s powerful and someone devoted a huge piece of their life to it. The local news does a story about it and everyone goes Neat! and then tomorrow we forget about it in favor of some other absolutely perfect and remarkable thing. That doesn’t make those things unwonderful or not unique … It’s just that there are a lot of people doing a lot of amazing things, so eventually you get a little jaded. Hank Green
In New York, the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world. Edna Ferber
More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm. Marilyn J. Appleberg
People go to LA to find themselves, they come to New York to become someone new. Lindsey Kelk
Short New York Attitude Quotes
A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else. Unknown
You can leave New York, but it will never leave you. Unknown New York Attitude Quotes
This isn’t a fairytale. It’s New York City. Alex Flinn
New York is the city that other cities can only dream of being. Unknown
Follow your heart, even if it takes you all the way to New York. Unknown
The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty. Frank Luntz
If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City. Unknown
Things always change and New York teaches you that. Richard Hell
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. Simone de Beauvoir
Sometimes I feel like my only friend, is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn. Mos Def
New York!’ he said. ‘That’s not a place, it’s a dream.’ Ralph Ellison
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. Karl Lagerfeld
The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years. Philip Hone
New York is not a city – it’s a world. Iman
Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan! Walt Whitman
New York has romanced me unlike anything else. Blake Lively
Each neighborhood has its own beauty & idiosyncrasies that spark creativity. Unknown
New York to me means the world. Donna Karan
New York is the only real city-city. Truman Capote
It’s a city where everybody mutinies but no one deserts. Harry Hershfield
New York City is where your wildest dreams come true. Unknown
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. Irving Berlin
The City So Nice, They Named It Twice. Unknown
If You Can Make it Here, You Can Make it Anywhere. Unknown
I love New York City – it’s the loudest city on the face of the Earth. Unknown
Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York. Ika Natassa
New York Attitude Quotes from the Arts
Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break! Stan Lee, The Avengers
I’m at the corner of 1st and 1st… How can the same street intersect with itself? It must be at the nexus of the universe. Cosmo Kramer, Seinfield
New York City’s the place where they said, ‘Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side’ Lou Reed
And all these become the victims of her caprice. Some she at once crushes beneath her cruel feet; others she condemns to a fate like that of galley slaves; a few she favors and fondles, riding them high on the bubbles of fortune; then with a sudden breath she blows the bubbles out and laughs mockingly as she watches them fall. James Weldon Johnson
I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. Michael Douglas, Hollywood, and the other Hollywood
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork. Madonna
Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps; and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded. Maya Angelou
And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors. Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting? Autumn in New York, it spells the thrill of first-nighting. Billie Holiday, Autumn In New York
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Zach: Tell me about the Bronx. Diana Morales: What’s to tell about the Bronx? It’s uptown and to the right. Zach and Diana, A Chorus Line
It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York. O. Henry
I like the stink of the streets. It makes me feel good. And I like the smell of it, it opens up my lungs. Noodles, Once Upon a Time in America
To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. Theo James
The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. E.B. White
Here we are, Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity. Harry, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
This is New York City. A man can do whatever he wants. Bloomingdale’s Cop, Moscow on the Hudson
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York. Frank Sinatra, ‘New York, New York’
He kissed my mitten. Then we’ll get you to New York, he said. He described Manhattan as an epicenter of creativity, a midnight tar-paved island where the young artists of the world go to pursue themselves. Listening, growing warmer, I peered up through the tent’s mesh roof at faraway stars, faint glitter, giddy. Aspen Matis
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger. Frank Rich
This city, this whole country, is a strip club. You’ve got people tossing the money, and people doing the dance. Ramona, Hustlers
In Hollywood, actors learn to act from watching television. In New York, people learn to act by walking down the street. Sidney Lumet
But if I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tim Gunn
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. Georgia O’Keeffe
I’m staying! You hear that, New York? THE FROG IS STAYING! Kermit the Frog, The Muppets Take Manhattan
Guys like you can’t escape the city. Hell, you got a blood contract with this place. You’re married to the old girl. Mickey Spillane
Contrary to popular New York myth, the ‘Times’ is not omniscient. Dean Kansky, Serendipity
Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now! History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be in the greatest city in the world! Hamilton Cast, ‘The Schuyler Sisters’
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasm. Irwin Shaw
Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams. Baby I’m from New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you. Hear it for New York, New York, New York. Jay Z & Alicia Keys, Empire State of Mind
One thing about New York City. You are here or you are nowhere. You cannot achieve another level of anxiety, hostility, or paranoia anywhere else. Gatsby Welles, A Rainy Day in New York
You’re a New Yorker, that won’t ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west but you’re still a New Yorker. James Brogan, 25th Hour
New York, New York, a wonderful town. The Bronx is up and the Battery down. The people ride in a hole in the ground. New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town! Gabey, Chip, Ozzie, On the Town
I love New York City…you’re never alone but you’re always on your own. Blair Waldorf, Gossip Gir
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps. Frank Sinatra
I’m in a New York state of mind. Billy Joel, ‘New York State of Mind’
Don’t you just love New York in the fall? Kathleen Kelly, You’ve Got Mail
Anything is possible. This is New York. Carrie Bradshaw
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Eh uh, no, make that he, he romanticized it all out of proportion. Better. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle-bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles. Ah, corny, too corny for, you know, my taste. Let me, let me try and make it more profound. Isaac Davis, Manhattan
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Funny New York Attitude Quotes
The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder. Alex Baze
Someone asked me for directions, so you can call me a real New Yorker. Unknown
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City? Henny Youngman
The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich. Sophie, Frances Ha
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’ Robin Williams
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn’t got. Robert Benchley New York Attitude Quotes
On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. Lewis Grizzard
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. Johnny Carson
It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it. O. Henry
I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified. Anita Weiss
Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spent in New York. Harry Ruby
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. Fran Lebowitz
When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles. Neil Simon
Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. Nora Ephron
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I’ve discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. Anna Quindlen
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open? Woody Allen
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans. Lady Gaga
New York is an exciting city where something is happening all the time – most unsolved. Johnny Carson
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. John Updike
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. Harry Hershfield
New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. Russell Baker
New York – The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don’t dress any better than we do. Robert Benchley
Inspirational New York Attitude Quotes
A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it’s a beautiful catastrophe. Le Corbusier New York Attitude Quotes
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. Pearl S. Buck
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. Jonathan Franzen
Hello, New York, you’re looking beautiful today! How do you always manage to look beautiful always? Unknown
I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York’. Thank you, God. Ed Koch
If a man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere. Arthur C. Clarke
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. Peter Shaffer
In the country, there are a few chances of sudden rejuvenation–a shift in weather, perhaps, or something arriving in the mail. But in New York the chances are endless. E.B. White
L.A., it’s nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps. Jimmy Fallon
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. Dorothy Parker
Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone’s got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn’t mean it’s an unfriendly place — just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I’m a social creature but there are times and places you just don’t want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being. Laura Anne Gilman
New York has an energy that takes root inside of you. Even a transplant like me gets to know the different boroughs, like they’re living, breathing organisms. There’s nowhere else like it. The city becomes a character in your life, a love you can’t take out of you. The mysteriously human element about this place can make you fall in love and break your heart at the same time. Renee Carlino
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. Thomas Wolfe
Something’s always happening here. If you’re bored in New York, it’s your own fault. Myrna Loy
That was New York; a whole cacophony of sounds and tastes that all somehow came together to form something beautiful. Aishabella Sheikh
That’s my favorite place in the world, so far, that I’ve seen. I haven’t traveled much, but I don’t think I’ll find anything to replace Brooklyn. Marilyn Monroe
The diversity, the food, the culture, the constant change–New York City is truly one of the most inspiring places on the planet. XXMK
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. Ayn Rand
The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. Pete Hamill
There is no place like it, no place within an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. Walt Whitman
There’s nothing like the feeling of being in Times Square for New Year’s Eve. Kimberly Guilfoyle
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. Michael Bloomberg
Unlike Rome, New York has never learned the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. Michel de Certeau
Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New York — ’He was smiling. I stopped. ‘What do you feel in New York?’ he asked. ‘Perhaps you feel,’ I told him, ‘all the time to come. There’s such power there, everything is in such movement. You can’t help wondering—I can’t help wondering—what it will all be like—many years from now. James Baldwin
When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends: What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read. G.K. Chesterton
When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere – wherever people are living out their lives. It’s a city with a million centers. Elizabeth Gilbert
When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie. Ryan Adams
When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere. Jimmy Breslin
While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me. Raquel Cepeda
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. James Baldwin
Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night. Dorothy Parker
You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall. Edward Rutherfurd
You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all’ Jonathan Lethem
You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. ‘A reality shaped around your own desires’ —there is something sociopathic in that ambition. Zadie Smith
Interesting New York Attitude Quotes
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless, and elaborately dire. Henry James
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it – once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. John Steinbeck
New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something. Lindsey Kelk
There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better. Amy Poehler
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life. Robert Moses
True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting. Jimmy Breslin
![So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philosophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.](https://www.quotestoolbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/So-I-went-to-New-York-City-to-be-born-again.-It-was-and-remains-easy-for-most-Americans-to-go-somewhere-else-and-start-anew..jpg)
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn’t like my parents. I didn’t have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philosophical value than in the United States…. and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal. Kurt Vonnegut
I’m bound to say that New York’s a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I’m a wealthy bird, so everything was fine. P.G. Wodehouse
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there…. Squares after squares of flame, set up, and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Ezra Pound
If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. John Lennon
It took the city of New York to break them up. If that’s not romantic, the word must’ve changed meanings while I wasn’t looking. Manuel Marrero
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly, and incurious, but above all, it is a crucible – because it is large enough to be incurious. Ford Madox Ford
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Ayn Rand
At night… the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze. Frank Lloyd Wright
In Rome I am weighted down by a lack of momentum, the inertia of a spent civilization. In New York I feel plugged into a strong alternating current of hope and despair. Ted Morgan
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening. John Lennon
New York is a city that plays hard to get. You want me? You better work for it. I love the dirt combined with the adventure, the endless exploring (look up! go down that weird block!), the surprising specificity that you can find (button stores! Filipino barbecue!), and, of course, the mind-boggling stream of humans. Rony Vardi
One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life. Miuccia Prada
Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish. Awkafina
I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City. Spalding Gray
Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now that may be a bit much for those who don’t come from New York, but clearly, we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advances. David Dinkins
It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world. Susan Ertz
I think NYC definitely had something to do with my figuring out my life path. T Cooper
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. Agatha Christie
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. E. B. White
In order to love New York you have to hate it too. It’s like a love affair–you don’t hunger for it till it’s out of reach, and when you’ve had your fill, you need to separate. When you return, some of its unfamiliar, but oh my god, the beauty of it. Connie Eisenstat
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. Alistair Cooke
I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it. Truman Capote
To Europe she was America. To America, she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world. H.G. Wells
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is. Henry Ford
Most people are in New York because they need evidence—in large quantities—of human expressiveness; and they need it not now and then, but every day. That is what they need. Those who go off to the manageable cities can do without; those who come to New York cannot. Vivian Gornick
Make your mark in New York and you are a made man. Mark Twain
New York has a thousand universes in it that don’t always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don’t. Jay Z New York Attitude Quotes
The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation than five times the population of any other portion of the country. Malcolm S. Forbes
Best New York Captions for Instagram
Give my regards to Broadway
Staten Island floats my boat
All you need is love and skylines
I’m so glad we MET
First Time-rs Square
Central Park always perks me up
Stop Yankee-ng my chain
Dear New York, I’ll never get over you
New York is calling and I must go!
From time to Times Square
I’m just a little apple in the Big Apple
A New York minute
I think I was made to line in New York
A trip to NYC can be very taxi-ng on your wallet
Enjoying every New York minute
New York is not a place. It’s a feeling
Arch you glad you’re in New York?
More like Empire Great Building, am I right?
I’m in New York – the city of dreams!
I am in the New York state of mind
After sightseeing all day, I’m Central Park-ing myself down for the rest of the night
Taking a bite out of the Big Apple
Hey New York! Words can’t espresso how much you mean to me
New York City is the Capital of the World
Queens for a day
They really dropped the ball this year
I fell in love. His name is New York
Happiness is…. holding tickets that say, New York
Times Square’s so bright, I need to wear shades
The views from the Empire State Building couldn’t be any NYCer
Finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. It’s a boat time!
Hustle like a New Yorker
Anything Can Happen in a New York Minute!
New York, New Me
New York, you stole a pizza my heart
Don’t harbor any ill will towards me
I left my heart in New York City
New York Attitude Quotes Summary
I have collected some interesting and fun facts about New York City.
- The original name of New York City was New Amsterdam from the original Dutch settlers. When the English gained control of the area in 1664, the city was renamed for the Duke of York.
- New York City has by far the largest population of any city in the United States. As a matter of fact, 1 out of every 38 Americans lives in New York. It is the 11th largest city in the world.
- For its centennial celebration in 1886, France gave the United States the Statue of Liberty. The statue took 4 months to assemble at its current location on Ellis Island after being transported in 350 sections within 214 containers.
- The Empire State Building has its own Zip Code–10118.
- New York City has 520 miles of coastline. That is more than the totals of Boston, Los Angeles and Miami combined together.
- New York’s tourism board selected “The Big Apple” as the official nickname for New York in 1971.
- New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, with more than 800 different languages being spoken there. A language other than English is spoken in 4 out of 10 homes.
- In the nineteenth century, oysters were so well-liked in New York that Pearl Street’s foundation was laid with oyster shells. They also served as a source of lime for the Trinity Church’s stonework.
- Times Square was originally known as Long Acre Square.
- In 1789, New York City was the capital of the United States.
- The New York Public Library has 55 million books.
- Central Park is 843 acres, which is larger than the nation of Monaco which is 520 acres.
- The Brooklyn Bridge is older than The Tower Bridge in London. The Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883. The Tower Bridge was completed in 1894.
- The greatest gold reserve in the world is kept at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City. The vault, which houses $90 billion worth of gold, lies 80 feet below street level.
Sources:
12 Interesting Facts About New York City
List of Largest Cities
15 Fun Facts About New York City
25 Thought-Provoking Facts About New York City (You Probably Don’t Know)
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