“I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Onc…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel You were talking so brave and so sweet Giving me head on the unmade bed While the limousines wait in the street. Those were the reasons and that was New York, we were running for the money and the flesh. And that was called love for the workers in song, proba…”— Leonard Cohen, open.spotify.com
“It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better. New York is cold, but I like where I'm living There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.”— Leonard Cohen, open.spotify.com
“Tell the pilot "Land the plane," on Roosevelt and Main Put a jacuzzi on the seven train”— Action Bronson, open.spotify.com
“Excuse me Miss, but can I get your name She said my name is Renee I said I got a whole lot to say So may I walk you to your subway She said if you want So yo, we started talking I brought two franks and two drinks And we began walking”— Lost Boyz, open.spotify.com
“If you grow up in New York City and you’re paying attention, you have a better spidey sense than anyone. It prepares you well for the rest of the world. You learn to listen to the hair on the back of your neck.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, variety.com
“I'm a idol, my wave is tidal, forget survival Treat the last record I broke just like a rival Uh, I'm New York before it turned into a bike lane”— Action Bronson, open.spotify.com
“An ATM vestibule. There are so many ATM vestibules in NYC. When it’s after hours, all you need is an ATM card to that bank to swipe into the vestibule.”— Jackie Stockinger, spoilednyc.com
“Since the late 1970s, the city and utility companies have been experimenting with what are known as trenchless technologies, like remote-controlled tunnel boring machines, to minimize the invasiveness of certain work, and to reduce disruptions to pedestrians and drivers. Other recent innovations, li…”— Emily S. Rueb, nytimes.com
“For five years after a resurfacing, a street is given a protected status by the department. Utilities and contractors must pay more to dig into the road, and face stiffer penalties for shoddy restoration.”— Emily S. Rueb, nytimes.com
“New Yorkers can file pothole complaints through 311, and the city is obligated to make repairs within 30 days. The department said it filled 460,493 potholes in fiscal year 2015, taking an average of 5.6 days to complete the work order.”— Emily S. Rueb, nytimes.com
“In the all-too-common scheme, a broker's first move is to publish a fictitious listing that seems (and is) too good to be true. The next is to inform the earnest nest-seeker that the (fake) listed apartment has just been rented and offer a guided tour of apartments that are smaller, or more expensiv…”— Patrick Clark, bloomberg.com
“New York was more full of reflection than of itself–the only concrete things in town were the abstractions.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, fitzgerald.narod.ru
“On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who later was to be the cause of a sensation in New York, awoke much too early for her night before.”— John O'Hara, amazon.com
“Shortly after dawn, or what would have been dawn in a normal sky, Mr. Artur Sammler with his bushy eye took in the books and papers of his West Side bedroom and suspected strongly that they were the wrong books, the wrong papers.”— Saul Bellow, amazon.com
“You remind Anna, if she asks why That a thief stole my heart while she was making up her mind I heard she lives in Brooklyn with the cool And goes crazy over that New York scene on 7th Avenue. But I used to wait at the diner a million nights without her Praying she won't cancel again tonight And the…”— Gaslight Anthem, open.spotify.com