#nyc

I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#burn #closes #earlier #early #energy

…but because they felt the neighborhood was safer than the one around Columbia, the medical campus of which was so far north that it was practically an annex of the Bronx ↗

— Michelle Au

#nyc #education

The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos. (p.67) ↗

— Tara Leigh Cobble

#faith #god #new-york-city #nyc #peace

falafel joint, jazz joint, gyro joint, corner. Schoolyard, creperie, realtor, corner. Tenement, tenement, tenement museum, corner. Pink Pony, Blind Tiger, muffin boutique, corner. Sex shop, tea shop, synagogue, corner. Bollywood, Buddha, botanica, corner. Leather outlet, leather outlet, leather outlet, corner. Bar, school, bar, school. People's Park, corner. Tyson mural, Celia Cruz mural, Ladi Di mural, corner. Bling shop, barbershop, car service corner. ↗

— Richard Price

#life

NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#attracted #chaos #chaotic #i #i am

Graffiti is not about clean lines, pretty colors and beautiful blends. Graffiti is my life's turbulence exploded on a wall. ↗

— Mint Serf

#graffiti #mint #mirf #nyc #serf

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica. ↗

— Aida Turturro

#called #college #four #i #named

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#i #list #listed #moved #musicians

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. ↗

— Rick Moody

#earliest #earliest memories #family #grandfather #had

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you. ↗

— Ann Douglas

#new-york #new-york-city #nyc #life