“I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.” FeelsHouseCitiesNew YorkLeavingFeel GoodNew York City Author:Cecily McMillan
“New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.” WorldCitiesNew YorkThreatClimateClimate ChangeVulnerableNew York CityCities In The WorldKeystones Author:Zephyr Teachout
“I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and I had a house on Fire Island, and they were part of a set of people that were all close and friendly, most of whom were involved in show business in one regard or another. So it was always familiar to me, and I kind of enjoyed it.” PeopleKindShowsHouseParentCitiesFireNew YorkBabyGrewInvolvedGrew UpAbsolutesRegardFamiliarEnjoyedIslandsFriendlyNew York CityMy SisterShow Business Author:Fred Melamed
“I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had immigrant parents. On the other hand, it was a bit conservative - in a sort of wholesome, Midwestern, small-town sense. I never met a single writer until I moved to New York City for college.” HandsBitsParentCitiesNew YorkCollegeMetsTownsMovedSouthConservativeHatedImmigrantsNew York CityDiverseClosestSmall TownClosest FriendsImmigrant ParentsPasadena Author:Porochista Khakpour
“Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was in a very dark place, in lots of foreign cities, far from New York. A lot of personal trials and tribulations took over my life in those years. It might be some time before I see what therapeutic function this book did serve. But for now, it's not even easy to read from it.” WayFeelsWritingYearsBookMightEasyDarkCitiesNew YorkFunctionTraumaTrialsTribulationTherapeuticDark PlacesTrials And Tribulations Author:Porochista Khakpour
“Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.” WorldTryingYearsHelpingSeemsBornAnimalCitiesNew YorkNeededTwentiesKillingLiberationKitchenSundayNew York CityFactoriesSoupFarmingCleanersKinderOvensAnimal LiberationFactory FarmingSoup Kitchens Author:Karen Dawn
“I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up.” FeelsKidsCitiesGrowing UpGrowingEffectsNew YorkGrewGrew UpNegativeSouthInternationalPopsAffectedNew York CityExposedSouth AfricaPop MusicConnotationSubcultureAfrican Music Author:St. Lucia
“New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.” PeopleEyeBlackCitiesNew YorkConstantShoesAspirationNever ChangeBlack EyesFixers Author:Molly Crabapple
“eah, you don't get a lot of meatheads doing improvised theater to begin with, and that's always been my thing. I talk about the nerd/meathead dichotomy on my podcast a lot, but there was a time when I was doing UCB full-time and playing men's league rugby in New York City, and I was like the funniest, artsiest rugby player, and the bro-iest improv comedian. I've always managed to sort of be in both sides.” MenSidesCitiesPlayerNew YorkTheaterComedianLeagueNew York CityBoth SidesNerdRugbyDichotomyBrosMeatheads Author:Jon Gabrus
“When we cut off access to certain parts of our cities to people on bikes or in wheelchairs, we're not only doing economic damage, we're also doing culture damage. New York is the culture capital of the world because people are running into each other on the street all the time. They are forced to engage in creativity and problem-solving.” PeopleWorldProblemRunningCertainCultureCitiesCreativityCuttingEconomicStreetsNew YorkAccessDamageProblem SolvingBikeWheelchairs Author:Ben Sollee
“It's not hard for a city like New York to create a $1.25 million fund. It's not hard for foundations to create funds that invest in diverse founders.” HardCitiesMillionsNew YorkFoundationFundDiverseFounders Author:Kathryn Finney
“I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a city; it's too barren in the suburbs, and L.A. is a suburb. Here, it felt active.” FeelsLongReasonEnoughFeltCitiesFeetNew YorkMovedWarmActiveSuburbsBarren Author:Iggy Pop
“I don't necessarily notice too much of a change in the sense of the kind of matches that I have in say a Los Angeles as opposed to a New York City. The big difference that I notice, and this is what all love as New York city and Philadelphia has treated me fantastically, but man, you cannot screw up in Philadelphia and New York.” MenKindBigsDifferencesCitiesToo MuchNew YorkTreatedLos AngelesNew York CityScrewsPhiladelphiaScrew Ups Author:Adam Cole
“I feel like when being raised in New York City I have a particular perspective on things like Gay issues maybe, because I'm in the middle of Manhattan.” FeelsCitiesIssuesMiddleNew YorkParticularPerspectiveGayRaisedNew York CityManhattanPerspective On Things Author:Joy Behar
“It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home in the countryside, and I ended up working in New York City, which is definitely the archetypal city.” FeelingsHomeWantedCitiesNew YorkPaintingPaintNew York CityIronicCountryside Author:Brian Froud
“There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.” WritingCitiesNew York Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“My relationship to New York has changed a lot. I feel lucky to live here. A lot of times you walk through the city and don't notice that you're in a really beautiful neighborhood, or that you're passing a beautiful building. It's nice, as an exercise, to keep aware that you're in a really lucky place.” FeelsBeautifulWalksCitiesNiceNew YorkChangedBuildingExerciseLuckyPassingPassingsNeighborhoodReally Beautiful Author:Frankie Cosmos
“I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.” WantedMovingCitiesNew YorkNew York CityVelvetVelvet Underground Author:Devendra Banhart
“Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health.” WayFeltCitiesEventsNew YorkMetsDespiteArtisticNew York CityOperaClawsAdriftDemoralizing Author:David Edelstein
“I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."” CitiesPolicyNew YorkSolveImmigrationBordersNew York City Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.” PersonsDesireCitiesNew YorkNew YorkersVets Author:Fran Lebowitz
“A lot of people realize "I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day, and I don't have to live in, for example, New York City where it's super expensive and if I live somewhere else that is less expensive and could pursue my passion like, I can afford to do that."” PeopleIfsYearsI CanJobsPassionRealizingCitiesNew YorkExamplePursueMiserableExpensiveNew York CitySomewhere ElseMy Passion Author:Tony Hsieh
“There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.” SeemsGovernmentCitiesNew YorkPoliticianRepublicanDemocratObviousCorruptionNew YorkersCity Government Author:Malachy McCourt
“New York City is a fascinating place because it's very good at using the energy in attracting some of the best and the brightest from everywhere.” EnergyCitiesNew YorkVery GoodFascinatingNew York City Author:Juan Enriquez
“The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.” PeopleMayAbleYoungArtistCitiesImpossibleHappenedWorstSpecialNew YorkBecomingDoctorsCrisisNew York CityWorst ThingsHousingYoung ArtistsHousing Crisis Author:Juan Enriquez
“I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.” YearsCitiesFourNew YorkTrainingTheaterAcceptedNew York CityBalletFour Years Author:Misty Copeland
“I worked at the original Coyote Ugly bar when I was a young, unpublished writer. Then later when I became a writer, I wrote an article about it for GQ. Disney read this article about this filthy, disgusting pit in the East Village [of New York City], where we used to set the bar on fire to get customers away from us, and said, "That's a great movie for kids!" They made the fantastic Coyote Ugly movie, now legendary.” MadeSaidKidsYoungUsedCitiesFireNew YorkOriginalsUglyCustomersEastBarsFantasticVillageNew York CityArticlesDisgustingPitsFilthyLegendaryCoyotesEast VillageCoyote Ugly Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.” IfsThinkingWorldWayCitiesAttentionNew YorkKingsTheaterIndependentConfusedNew York CityBubbles Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.” CultureCitiesNew YorkParisOlder Women Author:Sarah Lafleur
“Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.” PeopleThinkingPersonsCountryBigsThreeCitiesGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingFashionNew YorkParticularSwaggerAtlanta Author:Cam Newton
“If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre for an open-ended run.” IfsPlayWould BeRunningCitiesAudienceNew YorkTheatreNew York CityAnthem Author:Jeff Britting
“Ralph Kramden, as played by Jackie Gleason, was this big bumbling New York City bus driver who was kind of mean and crass and a little bit egotistical. But underneath it all, he was a big heart looking for a place to land I think.” ThinkingHeartKindMeanLittlesBigsBitsCitiesLandNew YorkLittle BitDriversBusNew York CityEgotisticalJackieBig HeartCrassBus DriverCity Bus Author:George Saunders
“There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.” ThinkingKnowsKindBlackWhiteCitiesNew YorkIdentityPerceptionI RealizedBreadItalianMulticulturalMidwestWhite BreadEthnic Identity Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Even today, the bigger the city, the better. That's why I live in New York.” TodayCitiesNew YorkBigger Author:Paul Smith
“My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.” MotherFatherCitiesTeacherNew YorkMastersDegreesDecadesNew York CityRetiringMy SisterPrincipalDeep LoveMarryingLove Of Learning Author:Samuel Alito
“Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works.” KnowsYearsWellsLooksCoursesHouseCitiesKnow HowRecordsNew YorkDeterminationNew York CityProvenLegislationCouncilLegislatureCity Council Author:Eleanor Smeal
“New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.” Has BeensNextLevelsCitiesNew YorkNext LevelBest Gift Author:Baratunde Thurston
“College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.” LooksMayHardSpaceCitiesFailingHappenedNew YorkCollegeSafeInstitutionsNew York CityPaceMandatesSafe Space Author:Baratunde Thurston
“My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip hop music was surrounding you with the hip hop culture, and it felt natural. I was a really huge fan of the music.” WritingCultureFatherFeltNaturalCitiesFansNew YorkHugeGrewGrew UpMusicianHip HopHipsHopsNew York CityHip Hop Music Author:El-P
“You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.” StrongCitiesStageNew YorkStatementsNew York CityVery Strong Author:Allen Crawford
“[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."” StillsDreamRoomsCitiesNew YorkPureNakedCopQuintessential Author:Dick Wolf
“I don't tan in New York City. I don't want to waste it on that. I'll do my own fake tan, actually. It's awesome.” WantMy OwnCitiesNew YorkWasteFakeNew York City Author:Nina Agdal
“It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that there is so much going on in this city. I like walking around or taking the subway, thinking about all the history here, looking at the architecture and all the people; of course, the museums. It's tough to find a better place to live.” PeopleThinkingMatterHardCoursesCitiesNew YorkWalkingToughInspiredArchitectureMuseumsBetter PlaceSubwayPlaces To LiveBe Inspired Author:Diego Klattenhoff
“I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.” FirstsCitiesComedyNew YorkWindowTheaterMusicalClubsNew York CityMusical TheaterComedy Clubs Author:Sarah Silverman
“In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into Yiddish and sang on a stage in New York City. Thank God very few people knew I was doing it! But the kids in the audience loved it - even though it was all in Yiddish.” PeopleYearsKidsCitiesAudienceStageNew YorkProjectsYears AgoNew York CityThank GodPeterYiddishStaging Author:Maurice Sendak