This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is…

“The quiet, melancholy music gradually gave shape to the undefined sadness enveloping his heart, as if countless microscopic bits of pollen adhered to an…

— Haruki Murakami

“When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you…

— David Foster Wallace

New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but…

— Mike D

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

— Hanna Rosin

Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our…

— Grace Meng

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

— Truman Capote

Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and…

— Charles Landry

Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its own unique…

— Ben Elliot

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just…

— Richard Matheson

Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods…

— Seth Shostak

New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them…

— Donald E. Westlake

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar…

— Darell Hammond

Fundamentally, we need to make sure that our neighborhoods are safe - all of our neighborhoods.

— Lori Lightfoot

With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans…

— Elizabeth Warren

“Mom, I live in the South End, not South Boston. They are entirely different neighborhoods.”

— Peter Swanson (Goodreads Author