“I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.” PeopleAmericaCultureCommunityCitiesNew YorkReactionsPassingPassingsNew York CitySquaresPassing ThroughMergingHubTimes Square Author:Dhani Jones
“Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.” StillsTwoFormCitiesSecurityNew YorkFakeNew York CitySquaresTimes Square Author:David Letterman
“The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.” MindLongIdeasNightHouseRoomsCitiesStreetsNew YorkParticularPaintingLong TimeImpressionSquaresInteriorsGlimpseSynthesisCity StreetsStreets At Night Author:Edward Hopper
“The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?” PeopleCountryWalksHellNew YorkBlockSquaresForeignersKoreanVietnameseTimes Square Author:John Rocker
“Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He's a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.” WritingCitiesIssuesAdviceNew YorkIndustryMachinesUnionsPartnersHelpfulInsightfulNew York CitySquaresVentureNegotiationBlogsHiringCommentaryLegendaryWilsonFundraising Author:Emerson Spartz
“For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'” MenYearsTwoMovingYoungThreeNew YorkOfficeMadLos AngelesCopiesSquaresThree YearsDesksMad MenMoving OutTimes Square Author:Rich Sommer
“L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.” PeopleThinkingSleepCitiesNiceNew YorkEatingSunshineSquaresBroadwayNighttimeSushiNever SleepNightlifeTimes Square Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota.” IfsThinkingI CanDoneHelpingHumorFunnyNew YorkDrivenDamageSquaresBombersToyotaTimes Square Author:Frankie Boyle
“The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.” PeopleLooksValuesSexResultsNew YorkDrugAreasSafetyCleanDullShopsSquaresUrbanHomelessSuburbsCleanlinessDullnessHomeless PeopleTimes SquareOrderlinessUrban Areas Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.” FeelsCrazyNew YorkSquaresTimes Square Author:Alessia Cara
“I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.” PeopleKnowsYearsThreeNew YorkBuildingMy FamilySquaresQuarters Author:Dan Aykroyd
“Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.” ThinkingGivingTryingKindFacesChallengesCitiesEnemyNew YorkBombsNew York CitySquaresAirplaneDetroitSubwayBreadthTimes Square Author:Eric Holder
“I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.” WantPlayShowsNew YorkGardenSquaresMadisonKnicksMadison Square Garden Author:William Beckett
“I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York...it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.” RememberStreetsNew YorkGardenSquaresMarsThrillMadisonBirminghamMadison Square Garden Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I mean, it to me shocking that this can happen in 2008, but fortunately, you had a governor who was sensitive enough to this outrage that he pointed it out to the nation, and is trying to do something about it.” TryingMeanStatesEnoughHappensNationsFeetNew YorkUnionsLawyerSensitiveSquaresGovernorsShockingOutrage Author:Eleanor Smeal