We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of eve...
I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.
For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer.
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.
Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.
People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.
A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.
When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.
It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.
Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
