Babylon Quote by Christopher Morley

It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said…

— Joan Didion

I appreciate the city of New York just embracing me, and Brooklyn in general.

— D'Angelo Russell

New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

— Lucius Beebe

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

— Italo Calvino

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and…

— Lawrence Block

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is…

— John Steinbeck

“New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of…

— Henry Miller

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

— Patrick Ewing

Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.

— Paul Auster

New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.

— Eric Adams

New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with…

— Scott Cohen

New York is, like, my dream city.

— Frances Bean Cobain