“I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a 70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.” StillsI CanWholeRememberStreetsNew YorkTypeAreasOriginalsArtisticOwnersCashCopLocationRemember WhenDowntownCanals Author:Peter York
“This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.” PeopleFeelingsWantedEnergyCitiesWeekStreetsNew YorkOriginalsNew York CitySkatingSkatesStomping Author:Ryan Sheckler
“There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.” WayPlayProblemSeemsUsedTakenRiskStageNew YorkPicksEnglandTheaterOriginalsProductionsUsed To BeJustificationCreamTicketsBroadway Author:Arthur Miller
“I grew up in New York. We were all diversified, as far as music was concerned. I grew up liking just about everything. So I tried to incorporate that into my playing, although the original school where I came from was Afro-Cuban music. But I liked all kinds of music -- I tried to bring that into everything.” KindSchoolNew YorkGrewGrew UpConcernedOriginalsAll KindsCubanAfrosCuban Music Author:Don Alias
“I worked at the original Coyote Ugly bar when I was a young, unpublished writer.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
“When I moved to New York, obviously I work with a lot of high fashion brands and I get to wear insane, totally crazy bags and all this crazy stuff but still, I'll always go back to my original sense of style.” StillsStuffCrazyFashionStyleNew YorkOriginalsMovedInsaneBrandsBagsHigh Fashion Author:Gigi Hadid
“My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC. Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.” WellsTwoReasonScienceCitiesClassCareersStudyMilitaryNew YorkCollegeMomMajorsOriginalsEightMathPhysicsDespiteEnjoyedWinnerPrizeCommentEngineeringDrsCousinNobelVaccinesGeologyNobel PrizeAllergiesPolioJamaicansPolio VaccineNobel Prize Winners Author:Colin Powell