What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.
That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.
New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.
There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.
I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.
We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.
To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.
There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.