“Some folks like to get away
Take a holiday from the neighborhood.
Hop a flight to Miami Beach
Or to Hollywood
But I'm talking a Greyhound
On the Hudson River Line.
I'm in a New York state of mind.”

—  Billy Joel

New York State of Mind.
Song lyrics, Turnstiles (1976)

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