‘Give me such shows—give me the streets of Manhattan!’ – Walt Whitman

‘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 beauty in the world.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.’ — Dorothy Parker

‘And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there…. Squares after squares of flame, set up, and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.’ – Ezra Pound