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My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark.
The place was out in Jersey ... Newark. And while that made living with yourself harder, it did make parking somewhat easier.
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
On the Jellicoe road
I loved growing up in Montclair ... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.
New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
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I was born in New York.
I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street ... I am really a native New Yorker.
The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics. Connie Rosolli
When they can hear each other over the wind and the music, they speak Connecticut: I will not Stamford this type of behavior. What's Groton into you? What did Danbury his Hartford? New Haven can wait. Darien't no place I'd rather I'd rather be.
I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
I'm a creature of the New York City streets.
I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was ... New York.
New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.
I am deeply grateful for all the friendships that I have all across this district, especially here in Ithaca. Ithacas a wonderful place. Im very proud to be the person who represents the city and some of Tompkins County.
I'm from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge.
New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.
Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I'm governor of New York.
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.
Manhattan ... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.
What people don't think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows wonderful fruits, vegetables, seafood, game, and fowl just outside of Manhattan.
All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River
I've always essentially been a New Yorker.
I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.
New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges,
I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.
I'm here helping Doug Forrester become the next governor of New Jersey.
I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.
A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.
New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this being my dad's home town, so I think that qualifies me as a Jersey resident if not a bona fide native.
I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.
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New York is in my soul.
Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.
Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.
I live in Brooklyn.
East Harlem accent:
Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk
Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.
Brighton I-don't-know-your-middle-name Waterford, are you asking me to strip?
I grew up in the Bronx.
I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.
New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
Greenwich Village ... the village of low rents and high arts.
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New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.
He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.
I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.
New York is my, you know, second hometown.
When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.
I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.
East 103rd, New York, New York
I always write well in New York.
I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.
There's only one New York.
I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.
In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.
Anyone who's lived in Manhattan all his life always feels torn whenever he leaves it. There's the satisfaction of breaking free, for a time. But that's balanced heavily by the feeling of leaving your whole life behind, and to see it from a distance.
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I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.
Manhattan is where America began.
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.
New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;
Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness ... .
There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in
Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?
I am the young, edgy New Yorker.
Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks.
Manhattan is basically this island in New York, where all the cool stuff is located.
Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore,
In lower Manhattan there is an improbable point where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place. It was there that I met Veronica, on a snowy, windy night.
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New York is my home.
I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.
Princeton isn't actually part of New Jersey. It's a small island of wealth and intellectual eccentricity floating in the Sea of Central Megalopolis. It's an honest-to-god town awash in the land of the strip mall. Hair is smaller, heels are shorter, asses are tighter in Princeton.
I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.
The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.
Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.
If you drop a rose in the Hudson River at its mysterious source in the Adiron dacks, think of all the places it journeys by as it goes out to sea forever - think of that wonderful Hudson Valley.