“I love New York ... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think it's so vibrant. I love the people, I think they're honest, in your face. If they don't like you, they'll say, 'Get out of my way,' if they like you they'll slap you on the back and support you. It's a very intoxicating environment to be in.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayFacesCitiesSupportEnvironmentHonestNew YorkLike YouMy WayYour FaceSlapSupport YouCities In The WorldI Love New York Author:Hugh Jackman
“New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.” WorldNew YorkLionsDensCenter Of The World Author:Zubin Mehta
“New York is the best food city in the world.” WorldCitiesNew YorkCities In The WorldBest Food Author:Joe Bastianich
“When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember walking on Broadway, looking up at this huge, mountainous place-and being so lonely. But things started to clear up when I met a few people on the street whom I'd met before-all of a sudden there got to be a certain familiarity about the place, and the terror kind of evaporated. There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I'd known.” PeopleWorldFirstsKindDifferentBigsRememberCertainCoursesCitiesKnownClearStreetsNew YorkBuildingHugeWalkingMetsLonelyTerrorCrowdsBroadwayFamiliarityNew YorkersCities In The WorldSo Lonely Author:Benny Goodman
“One time, I threw a candy wrapper on the street. I was with a friend who said to me, You just littered on the street! Don't you care about the environment? And I thought about it, and I said, You know what? This isn't the environment. This is New York City. New York City is not the environment. New York City is a giant piece of litter. Next to Mexico City, it's the shittiest piece of litter in the world. Just a pussy, runny, smokin', stinkin' piece of litter.” KnowsWorldSaidCareNextCitiesEnvironmentPiecesStreetsNew YorkGiantsNew York CityOne TimeMexicoCandyPussyMexico City Author:Louis C. K.
“I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarCitiesHappenedDangerousNew YorkZoneDangerous PlacesWar Zones Author:Alicia Witt
“Recording in Nashville was absolutely essential to get the sound, the musicians, the atmosphere, the warmth... There are just cult places like that in the world, like Chicago for the blues or New York for jazz. Nothing sounds the same in Nashville as it does elsewhere. Nashville is the Mecca of country music and everyone knows it.” KnowsWorldDoeCountrySoundNew YorkEssentialsMusicianJazzAtmosphereWarmthChicagoElsewhereCultNashvilleMecca Author:Roch Voisine
“In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel. There was no, there was no in between. And when I got to New York all the other musics that's in the world just came into my head whether it was the classics, jazz, I never knew what jazz was about all, had heard anything about jazz.” WorldCountryKidsUsedHeardNew YorkInvolvedJazzSouthWesternExcitedHillbilly Author:Ben E. King
“I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, which believes that Black men are the principal threat to the women of the world.” MenWorldBelieveBlackNew YorkThreatFeministWinnerPrizePrincipalNew York TimesClique Author:Ishmael Reed
“Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica - that's slightly more than the total figure for New York - and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial?” WorldTryingHas BeensPlansFrontsFiguresNew YorkResponsibleTrialsLengthImmenseBin LadenMassacresConvictsTribunals Author:Robert Fisk
“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
“What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export.” WorldCultureGivenTermCitiesGoneNew YorkTwentiesAround The WorldAfrican AmericanEvolveChicagoContinuingNew OrleansAmerican CultureAmerican MusicAfrican American Music Author:David Simon
“Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'” WorldYearsChildrenHomeSchoolFunRealizingDealsGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingNew YorkGloryWake UpI RealizedSnowMy ChildrenShockedCaliforniansToo Much FunSnow Day Author:Adam Savage
“I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.” WorldYoungCommunityCitiesNew YorkSingingEnglandIsraelProfessionSingersBarsNew York CitySopranosSynagogueJewish CommunityBar MitzvahMitzvah Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city” WorldWritingMadeCoursesFeltSpacePowerfulCitiesPiecesFiguresNew YorkChangedShapesBuiltDecadesObligationBeachBridgesAcknowledgeParksMost PowerfulArchitectTransformedMultipleUrbanHighwaysInfluentialMosesCivicsIconic Author:Sufjan Stevens
“When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.” PeopleWorldWalksMorningFourNew YorkDrunkPlaces In The WorldDebauchery Author:Moby
“A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a bad cupcake. In New York you walk everywhere. So I'm always looking, always on the eternal search for the perfect cupcake. I take them very seriously. It's like hunting and gathering for me.” WorldWholeSongThreeWalksPerfectImpossibleMinutesNew YorkEternalPopsWhole WorldHuntingGatheringPop SongCupcakes Author:Laurel Nakadate
“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
“In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn't wait to move to New York to become the person I've always wanted to become.” WorldPersonsWantedMovingArtistFeltWaitingMinutesNew YorkProtectSouthInvisibleFifteenDowntownWorlds ApartPasadena 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
“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
“We were in the middle of a sandbar in the middle of the ocean with no one around, and still someone was following me from New York, and was hiding in some bushes like a mile away with a long lens, so he still got pictures. It was really an eye opener to how you really have to be careful about being followed everywhere. I was trying to go to the most remote place in the world, I was out on a sandbar in the middle of the ocean, and they still found me. It was definitely a very new experience.” WorldTryingLongStillsEyeFoundMiddleNew YorkOceanCarefulFollowingMilesHidingBe CarefulLensesPlaces In The WorldNew ExperiencesMiles AwayRemote Places Author:Ronda Rousey
“Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.” WorldArtRealNew YorkChicagoReal WorldGrounded Author:Paul Scheer
“I remember watching Ring of Honor as a fan, going to shows in Philadelphia and New York, and I loved the guys. I thought these are some of the best wrestlers in the world, if not THE best.” IfsWorldShowsRememberGuyFansNew YorkHonorRingsPhiladelphiaWrestler Author:Adam Cole
“The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.” WorldNew YorkListeningDrivingCoastHighwaysPacificBest TimesVelvetVelvet Underground Author:Devendra Banhart
“I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.” PeopleWorldMatterNew YorkNo Matter WhatComplainingTransportationPublic Transportation Author:Malachy McCourt
“If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.” IfsWorldBigsGuyNew YorkBandCharlieSeattle Author:Quincy Jones
“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
“Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world of Anthem to the late breaking events of the day.” WorldEventsNew YorkLateStandingTheaterLeavingEach DayNew York TimesAssignmentsAnthem Author:Jeff Britting
“I still don't understand why you don't mention the family charitable foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative. The Clinton Global Initiative is actually like a Morning Call for women all over the world. When the Clinton Global Initiative comes, that's a signal to women all over the world to come to New York.” WorldStillsMorningNew YorkFoundationClintonInitiativeSignalsCharitableCharitable Foundations Author:Rush Limbaugh
“She [Carolyn Maloney] has there day in and day out for us and for women of this country and of the world, but she also never forgets the citizens of New York, and she's been, as you know a trailblazer for 9/11, commission for, you know, the financial district, etc.” KnowsWorldCountryForgetNew YorkCitizensFinancialEtcNever ForgetTrailblazers Author:Eleanor Smeal
“[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.” WorldLittlesRoomsNew YorkBuildingBrotherBuiltFairsDrawingMy BrotherCoveredMiniatures Author:Maurice Sendak