If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.
I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.
When you grow up in the city, New York is so big that you can kind of stay in your own little corner of the city and think that that's it because you don't need anything. You don't have to venture out; you don't have to touch the boroughs. You can kind of stay in your neighborhood, and there's everything there.
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.
I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them.
I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.
When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.