Brooklyn Quote by Donald Trump

I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.

— Neil Sedaka

My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some…

— John Gourley

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

— Peter Criss

I'm from Queensbridge. It's the largest housing project in New York. And growing up in Queens, it was different because I wasn't really experienced…

— Metta World Peace

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and…

— David Byrne

The Bronx, I remember, was a very poor neighborhood, but that was all that immigrants could afford at that time. Life was tough. I…

— Mildred Dresselhaus

Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also,…

— Norman Foster

It's difficult because Manhattan is so fantastic, and it's 9 miles away, and all these cool rich people live there and have great lives,…

— James Gray

There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the poor.

— George Monbiot

I grew up in a public housing development right across the street from Trump Golf Course.

— Ritchie Torres

My father worked for more than four decades in politics, in Indian democracy, and it took us 20 years to build a house for ourselves.

— Mehbooba Mufti

My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house…

— Abhijit Banerjee