“Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemoriam in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.” PeopleHas BeensPhilosophyPartyNew YorkApproachLabelsMayors Author:Joe Lhota
“It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen was keeping. "Which one?" she is reported to have replied with her typically razor-sharp wit. "My sister, my mother or my husband?” MotherPartyNew YorkHusbandWitQueensMy HusbandMy SisterPrincessRazorsAttendingHostesses Author:Princess Margaret
“New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.” KnowsBigsPartyFeetNew YorkTablesCarefulDinnerTouchingDinner Party Author:Susanna Moore
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.” KindBookSometimesMovingCertainPartyClearOne ThingNew YorkConversationCriticismVariousReviewsNew BooksLiterary CriticismDerivatives Author:Anna Quindlen
“To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.” PeopleAsksPartyNew YorkHundredHollywoodTwentiesFiftyInvitesCocktailsCocktail Parties Author:Elsa Maxwell
“A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.” NightSimplePartyNew YorkColdAfghanistanJacketsLeatherCocktailsCocktail PartiesLeather JacketsCold Night Author:Ronan Farrow
“[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.” GamesSocialPartyWatchesNew YorkPaperCharityDinnerDevotedVolunteerDollsBreakdownOne WomanDinner PartyPitifulArrangingSocialitesVolunteer Work Author:Margaret Case Harriman
“...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.” LastsPartyHavensNew YorkBrokenRepublicanEastRepublican PartyAmerican PoliticsEditorials Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used to throw parties. And a couple of times, I even worked for him and his crew, and handed out fliers, and had my super-high shoes on, and wearing silver Saran Wrap around my head or something. It's a world I was really comfortable in: a world full of individuals. I think what I like about that world - besides my own personal interests - is the individualism, the investment in the self.” ThinkingWorldSelfKidsUsedGuyIndividualInterestMy OwnPartyCitiesNew YorkCoupleComfortableInvestmentShoesSilverNew York CityIndividualismCrewWrapsPersonal Interest Author:Jared Leto
“New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem.” ProblemFunPartyNew YorkTwentiesTownsGood TimesHad A Good Time Author:Will Ferrell
“I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent.” ArtMadePlayUseActorsSidesPartyCitiesCareersFantasyNew YorkCollegePerformancesEastDancerNew York CityAwkwardMediocreDowntownDebutStarlightPerformance ArtMimeEast Side Author:Annaleigh Ashford
“The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.” PeopleWorldGovernmentCareInterestPartyCitiesIssuesSpecialHonestNew YorkDeserveIndependentFocusedBeing HonestBossNew York CityNew YorkersMayorsSpecial Interests Author:Sal Albanese