New York City

Famous quotes containing the words york city, york and/or city:

    “A restaurant is a fantasy—a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.”
    —Warner Leroy, U.S. restaurateur, founder of Maxwell’s Plum restaurant, New York City. New York Times (July 9, 1976)

    “Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.”
    —Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)