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We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.

— Rachel Tucker

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

— Liz Murray

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

— Moby

Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.

— John McEnroe

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

— Tea Leoni

In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

— Edmund White

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

— David Duchovny

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

— Larry David

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

— Bill Dixon

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

— Joe Cocker

✗Opposing Perspectives

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

— Philip Gibbs