“She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46503-2004Aug30.html
New York City

"Miss Universe Captivates New York" (1976)

"The Will Arnett Interview," Television Without Pity (2005) http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a1005/index-1.html
2005

When the Cathedrals Were White http://books.google.com/books?id=TzwVAAAAMAAJ&q="A+hundred+times+I+have+thought+New+York+is+a+catastrophe+and+fifty+times+it+is+a+beautiful+catastrophe"#search_anchor (1947)
Attributed from posthumous publications

"A Little Local Color"
Whirligigs (1910)

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 7
Context: Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties; so Mole, after struggling with his memory for a brief space, shook his head sadly and followed the Rat.

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003)

Source: To the Lighthouse