Columbia university Quote by Emanuel Derman

Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners.

— Janine di Giovanni

“In 1955, there were 150,000 New Yorkers on welfare; in 1995, there were 1.3 million.”

— Pete Hamill

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“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 City manages expertly, and with marvelous predictability, whatever it considers humanly important. Fax machines, computers, automated telephones and even messengers on bikes…

— Jonathan Kozol

“Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to trigger deep…

— Chris Kraus

“The Manhattan District bore no relation to the industrial or social life of our country; it was a separate state, with its own airplanes…

— Richard Rhodes

When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early '70s because the city was bankrupt and…

— Maripol

I know the ugly history of corporate welfare, and that's not New York City's future.

— Bill de Blasio

Housing in New York City has become too expensive for many average wage earners, let alone people with marginal incomes, who find themselves displaced…

— Solly Granatstein

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was…

— Fran Lebowitz

It is no secret that New York City has an affordable housing shortage. For those who've returned from the battlefield, the problem is even…

— Letitia James