Attributes Quote by Douglas Adams

“Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it so straight up and down—like Fifth Avenue. And with all the cross streets numbered!” She…

— Edith Wharton

“Common sense is a rare trait these days.”

— Bambi F. Moore

“I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn;”

— Pete Hamill

“New Yorkers hustled past in every direction, somehow managing not to run smack into one another. A dozen scents hit her at once. Car…

— Tessa Bailey

“And New York City is details too... It's full of people who have no idea they're really just art to other passersby. There are…

— Hannah Brencher

New Yorkers are smart.

— Jeanine Pirro

“And so each of the passersby on this corner, every scruffy, oversize, undersize, weird, fat, or bony or limping or muttering or foreign-looking, or…

— E.L. Doctorow

“How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide…

— Stephen Birmingham

“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was…

— Gillian Flynn

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

— Jane Pauley

“Common sense is most uncommon.”

— Samuel Clemmons

When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.

— Tina Brown