Air Quote by Edna Ferber

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

— Don Herold

New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York.

— Chloe Sevigny

Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than…

— Texas Guinan

I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing. Some of the major international cities I've visited,…

— Bobby Flay

Everything in New York ain't always what it seems.

— Too Short

New York has definitely turned into more of, like, a hipster place.

— Justine Skye

I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the…

— Chris Rock

Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis.

— Annie Wersching

New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy,…

— Rafael Yglesias

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

— Carson McCullers

Style in New York is much more accessorized and tailored and L.A. is way more flowy and day-to-evening. It is fluid and a lot…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

“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