Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1
Greenwich Village as It Is, in Pearson’s Magazine (October 1916)
Reported in Tom Verducci, " Derek Jeter: In his own words http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/specials/sportsman/2009/11/30/jeter.interview/index.html", Sports Illustrated (November 30, 2009).
2000s, 2009
This is in fact something an admirer said, which Christie quoted with disapproval in LIFE magazine (14 May 1956), p. 98
Misattributed
“New York is like my dream city. That's where I'm going to live, I'm convinced of it.”
" High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain http://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/red-carpet-dresses/a235/frances-bean-cobain-0308/" (2008)
“New York, New York. Big city of dreams, but everything in New York ain't always what it seems.”
http://twitter.com/DJ_AM/status/3543399699 Last Twitter posting by DJ AM
August 25, 2009
“New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.”
My Works and Days (1979)
“The total amount of electric power generated by India would not suffice to light up New York City.”
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter II, Part 5, The Terrible Ascent, p. 81
“Everybody in New York City is looking for something.”
Dancing Aztecs (1976)
Context: Everybody in New York City is looking for something. Men are looking for women and women are looking for men. Down at the Trucks, men are looking for men, while at Barbara's and at the Lib women are looking for women. Lawyers' wives in front of Lord & Taylor are looking for taxis, and lawyers' wives' husbands down on Pine Street are looking for loopholes. The hookers in front of the Americana hotel are looking for johns, and the kids opening cab doors in front of the Port Authority are looking for tips. So are the riders on the Aqueduct Special. So are the cabbies, the bellboys, the waiters and the undercover narcs.
