New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
It's a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.
The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
You haven't lived until you died in New York.
It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
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
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.
No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.
East Side, West Side, all around the town,The tots sang "Ring-a-rosie, London Bridge is falling Down;Boys and Girls together, me and Mamie O'Rorke, Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New...
Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study.[Adolph S. Ochs - Publisher New York Times]
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Franc...
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