#new york

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#avenue #bronx #davidson #grandparents #had

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#his way #i #jersey #new #new jersey

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#art #arts #degree #fantastic #get

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined. ↗

— Michael Arad

#city #country #defined #event #events

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ↗

— Michael Arad

#going #had #i #israel #live

What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#couple #days #fbi #going #had

I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week. ↗

— William Baldwin

#better #bills #college #could #count

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#city #find #hardly #meeting #new

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#art world #been #changed #crashed #doing

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year. ↗

— Todd Barry

#again #basically #booked #comedy #did