Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!
New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion.
I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.
I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.
New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.
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.
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.