Beggar Quote by Duke Ellington

“New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden…

— Duke Ellington

New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere…

— Anna Quindlen

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

New York thrives because of the hardworking men and women who labor each and every day. They deserve their fair share and more after…

— Andrew Cuomo

New York should be a place where everyone can afford to live.

— Letitia James

People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.

— Vanessa Bayer

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

— John Updike

New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and…

— John Catsimatidis

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

— Josh Radnor

There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of coffee. Believe…

— Patti Smith

“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

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