144 Quotes About Nyc

Twenty bucks an hour is no great wage in New York, a city where the middle class starts somewhere in the six figures.

The direction of the East River’s flow changes, switching up to four times a day because it’s not really a river; it’s a tidal strait. Its name is a lie. But so many things are.

She likes the mystery of that changeover, those fifteen minutes of sundown when the streets and trees and people and parked cars are delicate and immediate, every sound and smell and movement amplified by the lowest light or the lightest darkness. Even a city that’s broken and dirty can, in that time, be divine and intimate.

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.

To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.

New York takes from her, sometimes. But she takes too. She takes its muggy air in fistfuls, and she packs it into the cracks in her heart.

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

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.