“I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.” KnowsPersonsWould BeFacesGrowing UpSawsGrowingEventsNew YorkTelevisionHugeCallingLike MeAsianUnheardOlder Sister Author:Yunjin Kim
“Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.” DifferentSawsNew YorkDiedSoupReedsBurgersCozySweatpants Author:Julie Klausner
“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 think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once saw something fascinating here in New York. It must have been in the early seventies--guru time. A man used to go and sit in Central Park, wearing elaborate golden robes. He never once opened his mouth, he just sat. He'd appear at lunchtime. People appeared from everywhere, because he was obviously a holy man, and this went on for months. They just sat around him in reverent silence. Eventually he got fed up with it and left. Yes. It's as easy as that.” PeopleThinkingMenWorldHas BeensUsedLeftEasySilenceSawsNew YorkMonthsHolyMouthsGoldenSatParksFascinatingFedsSeventiesGuruRobesFed UpHoly ManCentral ParkLunchtime Author:Doris Lessing
“There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.” FirstsFeelingsFacesNightCitiesSawsHeardNew YorkSightMeetingsIntuitionRecognitionArtisticNew York CityGreat ArtDay And NightOld FriendsGreat ArtistStonehenge Author:Ralph Vaughan Williams
“I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.” PeopleKindSchoolFatherSawsNew YorkBandMountainEarsJazzBoringFestivalsChordsGreat MusicCarolinaUneducatedNorth CarolinaTenorsMusic And DanceBanjosJazz BandAsheville Author:Pete Seeger
“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
“Saw Torres play their first New York show tonight at Cake Shop. SO good. Do yourself a favor and check out her record. Her voice is KILLER.” FirstsPlayShowsVoiceRecordsSawsNew YorkFavorsChecksShopsTonightCakeKillersTorres Author:Sharon Van Etten
“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.” YearsSchoolYoungCitiesPovertyFiveSawsTeacherViolenceNew YorkStudentsTaughtDrugActivityLowsAbuseStressImpactIncomeParksFive YearsSunsetNeighborhoodAffectedNew York CityClassroomDomestic ViolenceGangPublic SchoolElevenFive Year OldsSchool TeachersDrug AbuseLow Income Author:Sal Albanese
“I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van on the street in front of a club in the West 60s called Hurrah. It's where Pylon played. I saw Klaus Nomi play there. And Michael Gira's band before he did Swans-they all wore cowboy boots and were so cool and had great hair. I was so jealous.” FirstsPlayAgeSawsWeekStreetsFrontsNew YorkHairBandFirst TimeWestClubsJealousBootsPeterCowboyVansBucksSwansCowboy BootGreat Hair Author:Michael Stipe
“I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.” KnowsSaidStatesReasonEnoughFilmSawsNew YorkChangedNeededHorribleDepartmentEditorsAdsMasterpieceNew York TimesAssistantsChanged My LifeHacksDiplomatsButchersCalifornians Author:Thelma Schoonmaker
“Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.” FirstsEndsMomentsFilmVisionSawsNew YorkShotsExtraordinaryCome UpTheatreAll TimeReleaseObsessedThat MomentFavouriteNunCapitolHitchcockVistasVertigo Author:Martin Scorsese
“I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for $21 million. When asked why he's selling it now, Trump said 'Hey, Americans seem to be buying everything else I'm selling, so why not strike while the iron's hot.'” SaidSeemsCitiesMillionsSawsNew YorkBuildingTrumpHotStrikesSellingHeyParksBuyingIronWhy NotNew York CityAvenuesPenthouses Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graffiti. He was impressed and asked if I sold canvases. I really had not made any canvases of my graffiti work yet, but told him I could make one for him. He then commissioned me to make ten paintings and put on my first art show. Between the sold out show and the cops chasing after me it created a lot of media and I've been doing really well since then.” IfsFirstsWellsArtMadeRealShowsGuySawsMediaNew YorkPaintingTenMeatInvestorsCopImpressedEstatesChasingGraffitiPackingSold Out Author:Alec Monopoly
“Today coming to work, I saw one of those only in New York scenes. It was a rat who had passed out after choking on a pretzel.” TodaySawsNew YorkSceneRatsChokePretzels Author:David Letterman
“Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.” LittlesTwoMomentsGuyLeftCitiesSawsNew YorkStrangeTypeWalkingTenHundredComplainingYesterdayCardsShopsSecondsThis GuyBucksRippedHighlightsDarrenPlaying Cards Author:Bernard Fanning
“New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.” WorldCountryReasonNaturalCitiesSawsStreetsNew YorkBirdSeasonsEastFortyApartmentNatural WorldBackyardsMaine Author:E. B. White
“My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.” FirstsSawsNew YorkTastePerformancesMusicalProductionsFantasticAustraliaEclecticI Love Music Author:Jacki Weaver
“It's fascinating. It's also exhilarating when you see people making the exact same choices that you've made. It kind of validates what you've decided to do. I saw a wonderful production of Jessica Lange doing Streetcar with Alec Baldwin. It was gorgeous. It's a measure of what a great classic that is, that our Cate Blanchett also did an absolute amazing Blanche in Sydney, as well as in New York.” PeopleWellsKindMadeChoicesSawsWonderfulNew YorkDecidedAbsolutesProductionsMade ItClassicFascinatingGorgeousExhilaratingSydneyJessicaBlanche Author:Jacki Weaver
“Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.” WorldYearsLawPowerfulCommonSawsPiecesNew YorkJudgingEmptyFinancialEightBritishLondonBrilliantAround The WorldRanSoilMost PowerfulChicagoCommerceSingaporeSydneyAcresHong KongShariaCommon LawDubaiSharia Law Author:Michael Strong
“After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.” ResultsSawsNew YorkAreasTerrorismAvailabilityMetropolitan Author:Steve Israel
“It was Miles Davis who took me to New York, and Coltrane was in the band, as well as Paul Chambers, Philly Jo Jones. 'Trane took me aside, and, of course, we did Blue Trane, which was my first album-and that started everything. He had confidence that I didn't have; he saw something that I didn't see.” FirstsWellsCoursesSawsNew YorkBandBlueAlbumsMilesChamberColtrane Author:Curtis Fuller
“When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.” WorldSawsNew YorkShadowTradeWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Robert Fisk
“Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It's good she's in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her.” PeopleIfsShouldBelieveSawsNew YorkMetsNeighborHatefulSpitCommentatorsSnitch Author:Geraldo Rivera
“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
“I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.” ThinkingWayBelieveSaidPlayHomeFatherParentChanceRolesSawsOur LivesWifeNew YorkWalkingMetsPureLuckStoresPostsAutobiographyPublishersWay Home Author:Owen Wilson
“I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The Last Five Years. It's amazing how things come full-circle and how the community (once you hang around it long enough) grows smaller and smaller as it grows. Sharing the stage with these people is more than a dream come true it's so special. They're so warm and giving and offer the best advice. Sherie is very nice and maternal and nurturing.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsLongEnoughShowsDreamLastsGrowsCommunityFiveSawsNiceSpecialAdviceStageNew YorkOffersWarmCirclesFive YearsNormBroadwayDreams Come TrueNurturingVery NiceBest AdviceAdmiringFull CircleBroadway ShowsLast Five Years Author:Tituss Burgess
“I used to audition for musicals when I was in New York before I moved to L.A., but I couldn't quite hit a certain note, so I saw a teacher in L. A. who helped me get better at it. She showed me how to use a different part of my voice. You are never too old.” DifferentUseUsedCertainVoiceSawsTeacherNew YorkMovedNotesGet BetterAuditions Author:Missi Pyle