“I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.” BornBoysChildhoodNew YorkRaisedBrooklynBrooklyn New York Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.” PeopleNew YorkParticularEasierReally GreatBrooklynGreat People Author:David Plotz
“I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.” YearsFirstsAgeStageNew YorkFirst TimeFairsPerformingBrooklynPerforming MusicBrooklyn New York Author:Theophilus London
“I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.” FirstsDreamRememberSawsNew YorkIncrediblesBridgesBrooklynManhattanSkyscraper Author:Diego Della Valle
“I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.” WishNew YorkCookingChicagoTruckBrooklynFood Trucks Author:Grant Achatz
“I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.” KindDangerousNew YorkGrewGrew UpAreasHipsThese DaysBridgesDriversBrooklynTaxiBrooklyn New YorkWilliamsburg Author:Barry Manilow
“I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.” IfsYearsFirstsArtSchoolSawsNew YorkFineEightEastVillageBrooklynFine ArtsArt SchoolEast Village Author:Bill Griffith
“I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.” SpeakParentNew YorkGrewGrew UpDistanceMilesJerseyBrooklynNew Jersey Author:Jonathan Ames
“New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.” HomeSinCitiesNew YorkHolyOfficeGloryEnvyRegionsBrooklynNew YorkersNo HopeHustleBabylonOffice Work Book:Parnassus On Wheels Source: Parnassus On Wheels
“When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in a philosophical context. All the great jazz musicians did, too. There was always a sub-context to what they were saying about music even though they would be very down home and earthy. So I started to develop, in addition to my power and ability to simply hear, a way to place myself in a time.” WayHomeWould BeAbilityNew YorkMetsMusicianPhilosophicalJazzJazz MusicBrooklynAugustWilsonStanleyJazz Musician Author:Wynton Marsalis
“In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.” YearsBookDreamKnownBoysAudienceFansNew YorkCreationAgingComicConventionsTiedComic BookClayVesselBrooklynBack WhenHogInterviewersHoudiniBrooklyn New York Book:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel
“My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.” FeelsParentCommunityCitiesInfluenceSpecialNew YorkGrewGrew UpNew York CityBrooklynBrooklyn New York Author:Talib Kweli
“As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don't look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music.” PeopleLooksCareersOne ThingInfluenceNew YorkProudBrooklynBrooklyn New YorkUnderground Music Author:Talib Kweli
“A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.” StillsMightCultureNiceNew YorkAmbitionBrooklynPlaces To Live Author:Chad Harbach
“I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congregating who have been neighbors for years and events and music and freedom.” PeopleYearsHas BeensArtCultureWalksStreetsEventsNew YorkBuildingNeighborPotMeltingBrooklynMelting PotBrooklyn New York Author:Erin Willett
“I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You hustle, you beat the sidewalk, the pavement - audition, audition. I just started working around town everywhere. I mean everywhere - the Village, Harlem, you know. Brooklyn Academy Of Music. Just job after job.” KnowsMeanJobsSidesStreetsNew YorkBeatsTheaterTownsEastVillageAuditionsAcademyBrooklynHustleSidewalkPavementHarlemEast Side Author:Jackee Harry
“New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.” ThinkingWellsMeanStatesUnitedUnited StatesNew YorkHorribleExpensiveGrandparentBrooklynManhattanLive WellEvery Second Author:Fran Lebowitz
“My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.” StillsKidsSchoolGuyGamesNew YorkMinesBrotherSmartBeatsHigh SchoolMy BrotherThis GuyCrushedBrooklynSmart KidBrooklyn New York Author:Maurice Ashley
“I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.” RunningBornCommunityNew YorkGrewNeededRepublicanGrew UpDemocratNeighborhoodMarchBrooklynOur CommunityMarch On WashingtonBrooklyn New York Author:Leah D. Daughtry