Bankrupt Quote by Edmund White

Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television. There was…

— Isaac Asimov

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

— Liz Murray

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch -…

— Graydon Carter

“THE CITY WAS ASLEEP. New York, the nervous, keyed-up city, was almost at rest two hours past midnight. Watching the sleeping stone under the…

— Laura Z. Hobson

I was in New York when they had the massive blackout - all of Manhattan blacked out. It was a year or two after…

— Brett Goldstein

“It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes of…

— Edmund White

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with…

— Art Buchwald

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like…

— Georges Simenon

I grew up in New York. It was anything but sheltered.

— Pauline Chalamet

New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I…

— John Waters

In New York City nightlife in the '90s, everything was camp!

— Amanda Lepore

After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was…

— Wayne LaPierre