Envisioned Quote by Ishmael Beah

“The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to experience here,…

— Sari Botton

In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever, The French…

— Baz Luhrmann

The fashion and the rap go hand in hand with New York City.

— Dave East

In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and…

— J. Cole

“Everyone loves New York City for all these different reasons. The culture. The mix of people. The pace. The food. But for me, it's…

— Gayle Forman

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

— Anais Nin

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different…

— Ai Weiwei

The thing about New York is, more than any other place I've ever been, you run into people on the street that you would…

— Michael Shannon

“What makes this city different is that nobody expects to be in one place for ten minutes. Everybody moves all the time. Seven nameless…

— Don DeLillo

I've been in New York for 14 years. I would never leave for good. The city is so much more alive than so many…

— Anika Noni Rose

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois suburban middle…

— Junot Díaz

One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now…

— Colum McCann