“There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.” BelieveSpaceCitiesHalfNew YorkPopulationHypocritical Author:Gloria Naylor
“it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.” KnowsWorldShouldLittlesBitsNaturalCitiesNew YorkSweetLittle BitShould HavePopulationGentleIntimatePleasantSurprisingDelightfulComfortingAstonishingConsiderateCities In The WorldSurprising Things Book:How Writing Is Written Source: How Writing Is Written
“[On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say that the land was the fairest in the world.” WorldShouldAmericaLeftCitiesLandNew YorkFairsPopulationProportionNew York City Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others” ThinkingWorldTryingTwoCertainTurnsMiddleNew YorkGoes OnOne DayPopulationStrangerCriticalStaringExpertsLeapSavagesInsectsNoonBumpsDensitySwarmsGrasshoppers Author:John D. MacDonald
“Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.” WellsStatesMightMoralNew YorkReturnSummerPopulationMannersVacationMarsProhibitionThirteenCometsNew York StateSummer VacationHalley's Comet Author:Clarence Darrow
“I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home for brief periods and took off again. So the population was very fluid, and suddenly it was as if the continent tilted west. The whole population slid west. It took 10 years for America to coalesce into a new culture. And the new culture happened in San Francisco, not New York.” IfsWorldYearsWarWholeHomeAmericaCultureHappenedNew YorkPeriodsWestSoldierPopulationWar Of The WorldsContinentsSan FranciscoFluidBack HomeJanuarySecond World WarNew Cultures Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.” PeopleThinkingCountryRunningPoliticalNew YorkAccountsTownsPopulationOfficialsAvenues Author:Mark Leibovich
“Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is King.” YearsFirstsEndsCountryStatesGovernmentGuyNamesPoorHalfCenturyNew YorkKingsDollarsPopulationOilRevenueMonarchyArabiaSystems Of GovernmentNew York State Author:Craig Ferguson
“Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction and As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages.” WellsRunningGrowsDarkNumbersBehindsHalfMillionsImagineCrimeNew YorkGrewPercentPrisonSurpriseRatePopulationRageCriminalsDebateBarsDespiteArticlesHeadlinesNew York TimesReductionAlleysLurkingCrime RatesDark AlleysPrison Population Book:Godless: The Church of Liberalism Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism
“If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.” PeopleIfsMenRealizingPoorLevelsCitiesConsciousnessSawsWeekStreetsNew YorkThousandAppreciatePopulationFiftyCoveredHomelessBusinessmanPoorestPostersLandlordCovered Up Author:Eric Drooker