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“You don't have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months. And if at the end of the six months you walk faster, you talk faster, you think faster, you're a New Yorker.”
— Ed Koch
Interview ("What Makes a New Yorker"), New York: A Documentary Film.
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