New York: A Five Boroughs Experience
“New York City is made up of five boroughs, four of which – Brooklyn, Queens, Richmond, the Bronx – compose crinkled lily pads about the basking trout of Manhattan.”
— New York Panorama
“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.”
— Le Corbusier
“The number one priority is playing baseball. There are so many people in New York trying to get you to do this and get you to do that, which is fine, but you have to take care of yourself.”
— Derek Jeter
“I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.”
— Robert De Niro
“Out of towners take the train, plane and bus here
Must be something that they really want here”
Brooklyn — Mos Def
“You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.”
— Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
Picture credits:
1. https://storify.com/MaggieGardner/maggie-gardner-s-new-york-city-story
2. http://newyorkvacationclub.com/new-york-landmarks/rockefeller-center
4. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unisphere_in_summer.jpg
5. http://www.nypi.net/new-york-coney-island/
6. http://www.visitstatenisland.com/images/places/E03AEABF-3048-64E8-406D27B82E93B9A0.gif
