City Quote by Ritchie Torres

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

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national…

— Andrew Cuomo

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything…

— Ralph Bakshi

New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.

— Anderson Cooper

The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe…

— Raymond Kelly

New York has this thing where everything is slightly more pathetic than it attempts to be. Everything is going for something, but then you…

— Julio Torres

For too long, politicians have pretended to be bystanders to this cost of living crisis. But the truth is that city government has the…

— Zohran Mamdani

No matter how many rich people call New York their home, we don't really have enough capital here to build and maintain the infrastructure…

— Sharon Zukin

In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

— Ken Schoolland

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New…

— Michael Chertoff

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

— Amor Towles

Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.

— James Ransone