579 Quotes About New-york-city

You know what I love most about New York City? The way you’re never alone.

People like to talk a lot of shit about the MTA, but it’s really an amazing system, when you think about it. The trains run twenty-four hours. It serves something like four million people daily. Over a billion rides a year. And it does a pretty good job staying on schedule. Yeah, it could be a little cleaner, but it’s not so bad.

I want to see a bit more of New York, even though it’s snowing and cold.

,,Aveau dreptate cei de pe Insulă care îmi spuneau că o să-mi placă New York-ul după ce trec de șocul inițial al schimbării”, gândește ea. ,,Îmi place de la depărtare”.


Tourists come to New York so they can feel modern, to buy into the modernity, that delirium extolled by Koolhaas that has been over for quite some time.

New York. They call it the city that never sleeps… They should call it the city that never dies. We rise!

The "Bouwerie" as the Dutch once called it, was a country road surrounded by grain fields, gardens and wildflowers. A retreat for well-heeled New Yorkers in the summer, the Bowery was far less populated in the winters.

Cities pour forth a virus. Humans are infected and told to build cages that no one should want to live in. Or cities are a pyramid scheme: everyone is supposed to be there, I am an everybody, so I will move there and bring two others, who will bring two more.

It is no surprise this is the reputed to be the greatest city in the world. It is a blob of brick and neon connected by the arterial subway, equal parts fear and wonder. It breathes, more robotic than organic, but alive.