Authority Quote by Ritchie Torres

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

— Italo Calvino

New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.

— Eric Adams

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

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the…

— Joan Didion

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 is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

— Candace Bushnell

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to…

— Griffin Dunne

“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

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

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's…

— John Guare

[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just…

— Donald Trump

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

— Rita Ora