RH Russel Honore General “Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.” Two Cities New York ♥ 6
F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist “Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” Moving New York Bridges ♥ 6
F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist “New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.” World New York ♥ 6
Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist “I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.” New York Directors ♥ 6
F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist “New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.” Girl New York Air ♥ 6
Madonna Ciccone Singer “When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.” New York Paris Dancer ♥ 6
Ice T Rapper, Actor “Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.” New York Might Groups ♥ 6
Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet “Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.” New York Land Spring ♥ 6
Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist “To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.” Morning Cities New York ♥ 6
Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist “My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity auctions in New York that many years ago Sotheby's sent me my own gavel. Now, the Sotheby's gavel is infinitely more elegant--it came in a little velvet bag, with "Sotheby's" inscribed in gold. It hangs in my library. I feel that everyone has occasion to use a gavel at various times everyday, they just don't think of it.” Thinking Jobs New York ♥ 6
Isabel Allende Novelist “The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was in a retirement home and that she had had a friend for 40 years that was a Japanese gardener. This person had been very important in my friend's upbringing.” Mother New York Retirement ♥ 6
GD Geena Davis Actress “I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.” Jobs New York Becoming ♥ 6
