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51 Greatest Quotes About New York City

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The Best Quotes About New York City

Looking for the best New York quotes and Instagram captions about New York City guaranteed to inspire you?

It’s no secret that I love New York. It is one of the greatest cities in the world—there’s so much history, character, and things to do in NYC . So it’s no surprise that so many famous writers, musicians, and artists have a lot to say about the city.

Without further ado, here are some of the best quotes about New York City!

Famous Quotes About New York City

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.” Dylan Thomas

“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.” Dorothy Parker

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” Tom Wolfe

“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book — and does.” Groucho Marx

“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.” John Lennon

“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” Mark Twain

“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud.” James Baldwin

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” Simone de Beauvoir

“My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.” Bill Murray

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” John Updike

“I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” Truman Capote

“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.” Ayn Rand

What to see New York’s skyline for yourself? See the city than from a helicopter .

“You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” Edward Rutherford

“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” Georgia O’Keeffe

“I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York’. Thank you, God.” Ed Koch

“Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spent in New York.” Harry Ruby

“Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan!” Walt Whitman

“It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.” Joan Didion

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.” Le Corbusier

“For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.” Karl Lagerfeld

“I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.” Milos Forman

“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

“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” Fran Lebowitz

“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” Nora Ephrom

Inspired by this quote by Nora Ephron? I wrote a post about some of the most delicious desserts in New York including that chocolate chip cookie she’s talking about.

“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it – once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” John Steinbeck

“Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” Johnny Carson

“At night… the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal.” Henrik Lundquist

“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” Agatha Christie

“New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer…. In New York, I have always felt lonely, the loneliness of the caged animal, which brings on crime, sex, alcohol, and other madnesses.” Henry Miller

Greatest New York City Quotes

“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there…. Squares after squares of flame, set up, and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.” Ezra Pound

“New York is appalling, fantastically charmless, and elaborately dire.” Henry James

“When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” Ryan Adams

“New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.” Delia Ephron

“People go to LA to ‘find themselves’, they come to New York to become someone new.” Lindsey Kelk

“Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.” Albert Camus

“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” Elbert Hubbart

“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” Angela Carter

“‘New York!’ he said. ‘That’s not a place, it’s a dream.’” Ralph Ellison

“It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.” Susan Ertz

“In New York, the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.” Edna Ferber

“The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.” E.B. White

“To Europe she was America. To America, she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.” H.G. Wells

“Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish.” Awkafina

“Anything is possible. This is New York.” Carrie Bradshaw

“Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps; and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded.” Maya Angelou

“By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience—if they did they would live elsewhere.” E.B. White

“A concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you.” Alicia Keys

“In New York, the opportunities for learning, and acquiring a culture that shall not come out of the ruins, but belongs to life, are probably greater than anywhere else in the world.” Thomas Wolfe

“Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark.” O. Henry

Which of these quotes about New York City is your favorite?

I would say to say my favorite is the first one on this list from F. Scott Fitzgerald in  The Great Gatsby :

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.”

I love that because that’s how I feel every time I drive across the Queensboro Bridge!

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I hope you enjoyed these famous quotes about New York City.

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About Denise Cruz

Denise is a marketing executive who escaped corporate to travel the world… twice. A Brazilian native living in the U.S., she’s lived in 4 countries and visited 35+ others. After side-hustling her way to financial independence, she curates solo destination guides, slow travel tips, and travel blogging advice on Wander Her Way. When she’s not on the road, you can find her in Miami with her dog Finnegan.

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1. “One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” —  Tom Wolfe

2. “Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spent in New York.” —  Harry Ruby

3. “I didn’t know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.” —  Greta Gerwig

4. “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

5. “The pulse of the city, the thing that makes it unique, is the energy it gives off. There’s no other place like it.” —  Hugh Jackman

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6. “New York is a work of art in and of itself. It’s a masterpiece that shouldn’t make sense, yet somehow, it does.” — Jacqueline E. Smith

7. “New York is a city that plays hard to get. You want me? You better work for it. I love the dirt combined with the adventure, the endless exploring (look up! go down that weird block!), the surprising specificity that you can find (button stores! Filipino barbecue!), and, of course, the mind-boggling stream of humans.” —  Rony Vardi

8. “Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.” —  Albert Camus

9. “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” —  Truman Capote

10. “New York, without a doubt, is my favorite city in the world.” — Linus Roache

11. “New York… It puts a spell on you.”

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12. “In order to love New York you have to hate it too. It’s like a love affair–you don’t hunger for it till it’s out of reach, and when you’ve had your fill, you need to separate. When you return, some of its unfamiliar, but oh my god, the beauty of it.” — Connie Eisenstat

13. “In the country, there are a few chances of sudden rejuvenation–a shift in weather, perhaps, or something arriving in the mail. But in New York the chances are endless.” — E.B. White

14. “There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” — Elbert Hubbard

15. “New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the centre of the world, the lion’s den.” — Zubin Mehta

16. “New York has romanced me unlike anything else.” — Blake Lively

17. “This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.” — Michael Bloomberg

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18. “You haven’t lived until you died in New York.” —  Alexander Woollcott

19. “Unlike Rome, New York has never learned the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future.” — Michel de Certeau

20. “Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams. Baby, I’m from New York, a concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you. Hear it for New York, New York, New York.” — Alicia Keys 

21. “In New York, the opportunities for learning, and acquiring a culture that shall not come out of the ruins, but belongs to life, are probably greater than anywhere else in the world.” —  Thomas Wolfe

22. “Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud.” — James Baldwin

23. “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” —  F. Scott Fitzgerald

24. “There is no place like it, no place within an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy” — Walt Whitman

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25. “New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.” — Matt Bomer

26. “More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm.” —  Marilyn J. Appleberg

27. “If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.” — John Lennon

28. “New York is appalling, fantastically charmless, and elaborately dire.” —  Henry James

29. “New York is like a candy store. You never know what you’re going to get.” —  Samantha Jones

30. “I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.” — Frank Sinatra

31. “‘New York!’ he said. ‘That’s not a place, it’s a dream. ‘” — Ralph Ellison

32. “New York is the perfect place to be single. The city is your date.” —  Carrie Bradshaw

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33. “Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like traveling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.” —  Kenneth Tynan

34. “If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” —  Peter Shaffer

35. “To Europe she was America. To America, she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.” —  H.G. Wells

36. “London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.” — Dorothy Parker

37. “Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.” — Joan Didion

38. “Anything is possible. This is New York.” — Carrie Bradshaw

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39. “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” — Nora Ephron

40. “ There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” —  Elbert Hubbart

41. “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” — Simone de Beauvoir

42. “People go to LA to ‘find themselves’, they come to New York to become someone new.” —  Lindsey Kelk

43. “When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” —  Ryan Adams

44. “I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.” — Milos Forman

45. “ As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. ” —  Pearl S. Buck

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46. “And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there…. Squares after squares of flame, set up, and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.” —  Ezra Pound

47. “A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.” — Le Corbusier

48. “New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it: Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” — John Steinbeck

49. “Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” — Mark Twain

50. “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” — Georgia O’Keefe

51. “I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal.” — Henrik Lundquist

52. “Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.” — Helen Keller

Captions and Quotes About New Yorkers

New Yorkers embody a spirit forged from the diverse fabric of this city – resilient, diverse, and unapologetically bold. Delve into the essence of these vibrant individuals through a collection of quotes and captions that encapsulate the unique heartbeat of those who proudly call New York home.

53. “If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.” —  Ellen R. Shapiro

54. “By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience—if they did they would live elsewhere.” —  E.B. White

55. “I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.” —  Dylan Thomas

56. “New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.” —  Delia Ephron

57. “Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.” —  Robert Moses

58. “Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish.” —  Awkafina

59. “New York has a thousand universes in it that don’t always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don’t.” —  Jay Z

60. “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” —  John Updike

61. “True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.” — Jimmy Breslin

62. “You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” — Edward Rutherford

New York Captions and Quotes About Its Iconic Landmarks and Neighborhoods

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Here are quotes and captions that celebrate the awe-inspiring presence of New York’s legendary landmarks.

63. “If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was – and is – home plate.” — Brock Yates

64. “ Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone’s got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn’t mean it’s an unfriendly place — just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it.” — Laura Anne Gilman

65. “The Chrysler Building at night is like a jewelry box.” — Ed Koch

66. “It’s pretty cliché, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.” —  Timothy F. Cahill

67. “The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.” — Frank Luntz

68. “I’ve always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty because it became the statue of my personal liberty.” — David Antin

69. “Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.” —  Charles B. Rangel

70. “The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes.” — Pete Hamill

71. “The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country of the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty.” — Jerry Springer

72. “Everybody ought to have a Lower East Side in their life.” —  Irving Berlin

73. “The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.” — Frank Rich

74. “At night, the Chrysler Building emerges as a radiant masterpiece, casting its spell over the city.”

75. “Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York.”

76. “Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn’t got.” — Robert Benchley

77. “But if I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” — Tim Gunn

78. “How can you be organized when you’re in Times Square?” — Mary-Kate Olsen

79. “It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.” — Timothy F. Cahill

80. “There’s nothing like the feeling of being in Times Square for New Year’s Eve.” —  Kimberly Guilfoyle

81. “In the heart of Manhattan, the Empire State Building stands as a beacon of aspiration and achievement.”

82. “Sometimes I feel like my only friend, is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn.” — Mos Def

Celebrating New York’s Diversity in Captions and Quotes

New York City is a bustling hub where diversity thrives. From its neighborhoods to its bustling streets, the city resonates with a kaleidoscope of languages, traditions, and customs.

Here are quotes and captions that capture the essence of New York’s cultural diversity, celebrating its status as a global melting pot.

83. “New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something.” — Lindsey Kelk

84. “While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.” —  Raquel Cepeda

85. “The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.” —  E.B. White

86. “The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races, and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.” —  E.B. White

87. “New York is not a city, it’s a world.” —  Iman

88. “To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.”   — Billy Graham

89. “The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine.” —  Salman Rushdie

90. “Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes, and city parks.” —  Teju Cole

91. “New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.” —  Djuna Barnes

92. “It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.” —  Joan Didion

93. “Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone’s got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That’s a very big thing – the experience of not living where you started. It changes you in all kinds of ways.” —  Salman Rushdie

94. “My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.” —  Bill Murray

Funny New York Captions and Quotes

Welcome to the lighter side of the Big Apple! In this section, we’re diving into the humorous and quirky side of New York City. From witty one-liners to laugh-out-loud observations, these funny captions and quotes capture the playful essence of the city that never sleeps. So, get ready to chuckle your way through the streets of NYC with these comedic gems!

95. “Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” — Johnny Carson

96. “You can’t fake New York pizza.” — Carrie Bradshaw

97. “I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.” — Woody Allen

98. “New York is an exciting city where something is happening all the time – most unsolved.” —  Johnny Carson

99. “Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” — Angela Carter

100. “In New York, they say, you’re always looking for a job, a boyfriend, or an apartment.” — Carrie Bradshaw.

101. “In New York, you’re always just one cab ride away from a new adventure.” —  Carrie Bradshaw

102. “The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.” — Jay Leno

103. “When its 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.” — Neil Simon

104. “New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.” — Russell Baker

105. “New York, the nation’s thyroid gland.” — Christopher Morley

106. “I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.” — Rick Riordan

107. “There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.” — Amy Poehler

108. “I have a wonderful make-up crew. They’re the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.” —  Bob Hope

109. “It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” —  Agatha Christie

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215 New York City Captions and Quotes to Love the City of Dreamers

If you are looking for New York City captions, you are in the right place.

This is the ultimate list of NYC captions for Instagram, including funny New York city quotes and short quotes about New York.

If you are dreaming of traveling to New York City or you want captions for New York pictures – you got it covered.

New York is one huge city that draws dreamers and hustlers from all around the world – No matter from which part of the world, people come to NYC city with dreams in their eyes, and their brain filled with goals –

Whether you are one of the hustler trying to find your foot in the city or you are a traveler wanting to get lost in the glamour of Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge, and swanky Manhattan – you can virtually explore the city of dreams through these epic quotes about New York City.

Grab a latte and get started to enjoy these New York city captions.

NEW YORK CITY CAPTIONS FOR INSTAGRAM

Below is the list of New York City captions and New York quotes for Instagram.

Whether you are exploring New York or you have moved to the city and looking for the right words to capture your emotions and thoughts, I am sure these NYC Instagram captions will take care of these things for you.

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Tom Wolfe

“I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never loves anyone quite that way again.” –Joan Didion

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.” – Le Corbusier

“Welcome to New York, it’s been waiting for you.” – Taylor Swift

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” -Simone De Beauvoir

“New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.” -Alistair Cooke

“I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards: New York.” – Milos Forman

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.” -Pearl S. Buck

“New York is appalling, fantastically charmless, and elaborately dire.” -Henry James

Don’t enjoy these catchy NYC Instagram captions alone. Share them with your friends and on social media too.

“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

“I’m going to show you the real New York – witty, smart, and international – like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary , old Russia, old France, old Italy ? In Europe you’re trying to copy America, you’re almost American. But here you’ll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago – and we haven’t spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world’s in New York.” – Oriana Fallaci 

“Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh, there’s nothing you can’t do, now you’re in New York.” – Jay-Z

“This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.” – Michael Bloomberg

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.” – Pearls S. Buck

These Instagram captions for NYC are perfect to go with your latest weekend trip pictures that you can share along with your New York hashtags.

“People never forget 2 things: their first love and their first day in New York City.” – Kirk

“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.” – Dorothy Parker

“In order to love New York you have to hate it too. It’s like a love affair – you don’t hunger for it till it’s out of reach, and when you’ve had your fill, you need to separate. When you return, some of it is unfamiliar, but, oh my god, the beauty of it.” – Connie Eisenstat

“I didn’t know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.” – Greta Gerwig

“Things always change and New York teaches you that.” – Richard Hell

“It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.” – E.B. White 

“Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” – John Steinbeck

“Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark.” – O. Henry

“New York was the only place in America where a person could actually live a halfway livable life.” – John Green

These are some of the deep and moving New York Instagram captions that best describe New York’s character – from its relentless to intimidating shades, among the many hues it wears.

“New York provides a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.” – E. B. White

“There’s nothing like the feeling of being in Times Square for New Year’s Eve.” – Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York. Thank you, God.” – Ed Koch

“New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.” – Djuna Barnes

“New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village – the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up.” – E.B. White

“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation than five times the population of any other portion of the country.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“That was New York; a whole cacophony of sounds and tastes that all somehow came together to form something beautiful.” – Aishabella Sheikh

“If you’re greedy for life, that’s what New York is all about. If you’re trying to get as much as you can every day, this city is the place to be.” – Pam Nelson

NEW YORK CITY TRAVEL CAPTIONS

Let’s agree that every traveler has this city up high on their bucket list, no matter where they are from or how old. New York, London, Rome, Paris, Tokyo – see this list of the top metropolitan cities in the world here? All those fueled by wanderlust dreams of spending at least a weekend in this stunning city if not more.

For now, keep your dreams alive, and also the travel plans. Meanwhile, check out these New York City captions to virtual travel there.

Also look for some New York skyline captions for Instagram, because we all know that the skyline of NYC is one of the most beautiful in the world, which will enchant you no matter if you are a fan of concrete jungles or skyscrapers or not!

“Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.” – Albert Camus

“Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps; and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded.” – Maya Angelou

“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” – Nora Ephron

“When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” – Ryan Adams

“The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence because New York is best seen with innocent eyes.” – Pete Hamill

The below list of New York city captions also covers a few central park quotes, Brooklyn bridge quotes, and also New York song quotes.

“L.A., it’s nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.” – Jimmy Fallon

“It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.” – Timothy F. Cahill

“Whenever spring comes to New York I can’t stand the suggestion of the land that comes blowing over the river from New Jersey and I’ve got to go. So I went.” – Jack Kerouac

“If I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” – Tim Gunn

“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it: Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” – John Steinbeck

“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” – Angela Carter

“New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly, and incurious, but above all, it is a crucible – because it is large enough to be incurious.” -Ford Madox Ford

“Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams. Baby, I’m from New York, a concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you. Hear it for New York, New York, New York.” – Alicia Keys 

“New York – that unnatural city where everyone is an exile, none more so than the American.” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“In terms of theatre, there’s not a more supportive theatre community than in New York. It’s really kind of a real thrill to go there. I mean, don’t forget, I’m a boy from the suburbs of Sydney, so getting to New York is a huge, huge thrill.” – Hugh Jackman

“My favourite place is Central Park because you never know what you’re going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it seems like I’m looking out over a forest.” – Haley Joel Osment

“The city is an amusement park: Everything is concrete, it’s full of tourists, and food vendors line the sidewalks. It’s like living in a casino: The lights never dim, there’s an incessant din of bells and horns, and there’s always someone, somewhere, crying in a bathroom.,” – Jane Borden 

These New York travel quotes and different sayings about New York city will make you begin dreaming about going to this city for sure.

“In New York, the opportunities for learning, and acquiring a culture that shall not come out of the ruins, but belongs to life, are probably greater than anywhere else in the world.” – Thomas Wolfe

“I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.” – Paul Auster

“Everything in New York is a photograph. All the things that are supposed to be dirty or rough or unrefined are the most beautiful things. Garbage cans at the ends of alleyways look like they’ve been up all night talking with each other. “ – Ann-Marie MacDonald

“I love short trips to New York; to me, it is the finest three-day town on earth.” James Cameron

“I can’t with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It’s like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they are drunk or a thief. I’ve loved the city my whole life – to me, it’s like a great woman.” – Woody Allen

“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” – Agatha Christie

“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.” – Gatsby

“I’m bound to say that New York’s a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I’m a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.” – P. G. Wodehouse

“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them — this was the greatest nation and there was a gala in the air.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban nights is like the night there. Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.” – Ezra Pound

“New York walking doesn’t exercise: it’s a continually showing make-your-own movie.” – Roy Blount Jr 

“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” – Elbert Hubbard

“The most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.” – Christ

“Sometimes I feel like my only friend in the city I live in is beautiful Brooklyn.” – Mos Def

“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Particularly when one can’t see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?” – Ayn Rand

“I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork.” – Madonna

“There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man’s bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.” -Walt Whitman 

“Quiet is definitely not how I would describe New York, but if I go outside of the front door, I see the beautiful Central Park, so it’s a nice place to be.” – Petra Kvitová

“That’s my favourite place in the world, so far, that I’ve seen. I haven’t travelled much, but I don’t think I’ll find anything to replace Brooklyn.” – Marilyn Monroe

“When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere – wherever people are living out their lives. It’s a city with a million centers.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.” – John Lennon

“Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like traveling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.” – Kenneth Tynan

“Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spend in New York.” – Harry Ruby

“The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific and the seals are a permanent centre of attraction for children.” – Newt Gingrich

“I knew that I needed to quiet my mind; lucky for me, there is no place to quiet your mind like the northernmost edge of Manhattan’s Times Square.” – Ellie Kemper

“New York is a work of art in and of itself. It’s a masterpiece that shouldn’t make sense, yet somehow, it does.” – Jacqueline E. Smith

“The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.” – Frank Rich

“I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.” – Jonathan Lethem

“Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is the day.” – Joseph O’Neill

“The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine.” – Salman Rushdie

“She leaned back in her chair, watching the sunrise as if it were a private performance intended just for her. And for a moment it felt that way: as if the sun was showing off for her benefit, reminding her how wonderful it was to be young and alive and in New York.” – Katharine McGee

“At night, the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Something’s always happening here. If you’re bored in New York, it’s your own fault.” – Myrna Loy

“A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.” – Herb Caen

“Empire” isn’t just about New York. It’s about hope. No matter where we’re from, we all want the opportunity to work hard and breathe life into our ambitions.” – Alicia Keys

“NY 101. It’ll rob you and cheat you. It’ll take your friends and turn them on you. It’ll kick your ass and break your heart. But then it’ll pick you up again, make you feel so totally alive and untouchable. It’s the center of the world, it’s the best place in the world, and once it’s in your heart it’ll never leave you.” – Ryan Kelly

FUNNY NEW YORK CAPTIONS

If you want to laugh about the city, how about these funny New York City captions. Whether it is the sex and the city quotes about New York by Sarah or funny quotes about New York city from songs, this is the best list of funny quotes about NYC.

“New York City is all about sex. People getting it, people trying to get it, people who can’t get it. No wonder the city never sleeps. It’s too busy trying to get laid.” – Sex and the City

“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies.” – You’ve Got Mail

“New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I’ve discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.” – Anna Quindlen

“When you’re in New York City, always keep your money and other valuables in a safe place, such as Switzerland .” – Dave Barry

“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.” – Robert Benchley

“If you live in New York, even if you’re Catholic, you’re Jewish.” – Lennie Bruce

“New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.” – Henry Ford

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“There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.” – Amy Poehler

“Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.” – Jonathan Franzen

“New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment – a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.” – Brendan Behan

“Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.” – David Letterman

“New York is a six reel movie, with the film running backward, sideways, cross-ways, but never in sequence. Nobody seems to be moving anywhere, but is in an awful hurry to get somewhere.” – William Henry.

“When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York and only 72 in Los Angeles.” – Neil Simon

“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” – Fran Lebowitz

“Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.” – Ed Koch

“To people from ‘Brooklyn-Brooklyn,’ North Brooklyn is really just South Queens.” – Cat Agonis

These are some of my favorite New York city captions that make me smile every time I read them.

“On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn’t, he said, ‘Do you mind if I mug you here?” – Paul Merton

“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.” – Rick Riordan

“An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.” – Garrison Keillor

“A New York doctor has finished a five-year study of 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.” – Jay Leno

“I don’t mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique.” – Lee Ranaldo

“I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City.” – Spalding Gray

“New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?” – Edward Abbey

“If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek Hermes, the Roman’s Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people, and the crossing of borders, imagination.” – James Hillman

Another of the many sex and the city quotes about NYC below.

“New York is definitely haunted. Old lovers, ex-boyfriends, anyone you have unresolved issues with you is bound to run into again and again until you resolve them.” – Sex and the City 

Some more funny New York city quotes to keep the giggles coming in. You can also find some amazing and funny central park captions too.

“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.” – Bob Dylan

“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.” – Douglas Adams 

“My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?”- Henny Youngman

“Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” – Johnny Carson

“It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it.” – O. Henry

“On a New York subway, you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.” – Lewis Grizzard

“New York, the nation’s thyroid gland.” – Christopher Morley

“If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was and is home plate.” Brock Yates

“If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you’re looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It’s the American Monopoly board.” – Ridley Scott

“The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder.” – Alex Baze

“When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends: What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read.” – G.K. Chesterton

“If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was and is home plate.” – Brock Yates

“The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich.” – Frances Ha

“New York may be the city that never sleeps, but it sure does sleep around.” – Brian Bendis

“The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’” – Robin William

“For in that city New York there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.” – Evelyn Waugh

“New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most of it unsolved.” – Johnny Carson

More hilarious moments for you because we got a few more New York funny quotes.

“There’s no room for amateurs, even in crossing the streets.” – George Segal

“I love New York City. The reason I live in New York City is that it’s the loudest city on the planet Earth. It’s so loud I never have to listen to any of the shit that’s going on in my own head. It’s really loud. They literally have guys come with jackhammers and they drill the streets and just leave cones in front of your apartment; you don’t even know why. Garbage men come; they don’t pick up the garbage, they just bang the cans together.” – Lewis Black

“New York is a six-reel movie, with the film running backward, sideways, cross-ways, but never in sequence. Nobody seems to be going anywhere, but is it an awful hurry to get there.” – William Henry McMasters

“Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn’t got.” – Robert Benchley

“I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbours.” – Breakfast At Tiffany’s

“New York has a trip-hammer vitality that drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.” – Henry Miller

“A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.” – Lady Gaga

“I have a wonderful make-up crew. They’re the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.” – Bob Hope

“New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.” – Russell Baker

“I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.” – Anita Weiss

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“In New York, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That’s why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.” – George Carlin

“New York is a sucked orange” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.” – Colum McCann

“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.” – Mignon McLaughlin

SHORT NEW YORK QUOTES

Below are some of the famous Instagram quotes for NYC. These are short and sweet, perfect if you are looking for a few amazing short quotes about New York

“New York is the only real city-city.” – Truman Capote

In New York, auditioning for the future.

“Each man reads his own meaning into New York.” – Meyer Berger

“New York City is a tourist trap I don’t mind being in.”

“Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan!” – Walt Whitman

A New York Minute.

“You haven’t lived until you died in New York.” – Alexander Woollcott

Once upon a time in New York.

New York is always a good idea.

“The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.” – Philip Hone

Late nights, bright lights

I miss New York. Take me home.” – Sex and the City

These New York city captions are best if you want some New York caption for Instagram pics from your trip.

“How can you be organized when you’re in Times Square?” – Mary-Kate Olsen

Dear New York, I’ll never get over you.

“For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“Skyscraper National Park.” – Kurt Vonnegut

Let the city set you free.

“New York is like a disco but without the music.” – Elaine

“The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.” – Frank Luntz

New York is not a city – it’s a world.

Uptown things and downtown dreams!

“I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.” – Frank Sinatra

“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” – Peter Shaffer  

More short New York quotes that are perfect New York city captions for Instagram that will attract a lot of hearts.

I left my heart in New York City.

London is a mystery, NYC is an explanation.

“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

You can leave New York, but it will never leave you.

“New York to me means the world.” – Donna Karan

“It’s a city where everybody mutinies but no one deserts.” – Harry Hershfield

Well, would you look at the Times?

“New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.” – Truman Capote

I love New York.

“When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.” – Jimmy Breslin

“If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City.”

“In New York, you’ve got to have all the luck.” – Charles Bukowski

“There’s no place like Times Square.”

“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” – Mark Twain

“Everybody ought to have a Lower East Side in their life.” – Irving Berlin

“The glamour of it all! New York! America!” – Charlie Chaplin 

“Enjoying every New York minute.”

I heart New York

“Happiness is holding tickets that say, New York.”

Feel free to use these New York quotes on Instagram with your loved ones.

“Good morning New York City!”

“I went to New York to be born again.” – Kurt Vonnegut

Summer nights and city lights.

Give my regards to Broadway

“If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City.” 

QUIRKY NYC CAPTIONS FOR INSTAGRAM

Below New York city captions are perfect if you are looking for some sassy New York city Instagram quotes or clever New York city Instagram captions.

“New York State of mind.”

Hustle like a New Yorker

This is the only city with a special flair.

“Hello, New York, you’re looking beautiful today! How do you always manage to look beautiful always?”

“Meet me in New York.”

Hello, NYC, your night is a firefighter in my heart.

First Timers Square

Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York.

New York City is my goal

I am having an affair with New York.

“I fell in love. His name is New York”

“Forever a city girl.”

“Welcome to the concrete jungle.”

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.

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“Meet me in Times Square.”

All you need is love and skylines.

“Only in New York.”

“I’d rather be in New York.”

I’m in New York – the city of dreams.

“Anything is possible. This is New York.”

What better than these classy New York city captions for New York pic quotes, right?

“I’m just a little apple in the Big Apple.”

Anything Can Happen in a New York Minute!

“I want Times Square”

Taking a bite out of the Big Apple

QUOTES ABOUT NEW YORKERS

The list of the quotes about New York state or the city can not be complete without referencing its fierce, determined, and ambitious dwellers – the New Yorkers.

If you want to know what’s being a New Yorker is like, go straight to check out these New York city captions about its residents.

“As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.” – Dorothy Parker

“I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Truman Capote

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike

“My favorite thing about New York is the people because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.” – Bill Murray

“Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish.” – Awkafina

“By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience – if they did, they would live elsewhere.” – E.B. White

“People in New York love having roof parties.” – Todd Barry

“I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.” – Lady Gaga

“I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.” – David Byrne

“I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal.” – Henrik Lundquist

“One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.” – Miuccia Prada

“Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasm.” – Irwin Shaw

“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.” – Robert Moses

Some more New York city captions that shows how life in the city can be.

“I think NYC definitely had something to do with my figuring out my life path.” – T Cooper

“New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.” – Delia Ephron

“Most people are in New York because they need evidence—in large quantities—of human expressiveness, and they need it not now and then, but every day. That is what they need. Those who go off to the manageable cities can do without; those who come to New York cannot.” – Vivian Gornick

“If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.” – Ellen R. Shapiro

“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.” – Peter Cameron

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens. Whatever interests the rest interests me.” – Walt Whitman

“I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.” – Dylan Thomas

“More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm.” – Marilyn J. Appleberg  

“People go to LA to “find themselves”; they come to New York to become someone new.” – Lindsey Kelk

“New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something.” – Lindsey Kelk

“Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.” – Helen Keller

“New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move.” – Davit Letterman

“True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.” – Jimmy Breslin

“New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness. No one feels he belongs here.” – Gerald Stanley Lee

“While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.” – Raquel Cepeda

QUOTES ABOUT NEW YORK CULTURE AND HISTORY

The culture in New York city is global, with people all around the world moving in and out every day. In fact, it is one of the largest cities in the world with the highest floating population.

Thanks to its cosmopolitan culture, the culture, traditions, and beliefs of this city have been constantly changing, evolving, and being shaped by millions of its residents and visitors.

Below is the list of New York city captions about its history and culture. If you want to get to know the city truly, beyond its skyscrapers and parks, dive into these quotes on New York City, which also includes some quotes about the central park, Brooklyn captions, and quotes about Manhattan – the swanky neighborhood of New York.

“I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.” – Sherwood Anderson

“New York means so much to people. If you’re inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it’s been that way since the first skyscraper. – Griffin Dunne

“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.” – James Baldwin

“On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.” – E B White

“It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also a city for only the very young.” – Joan Didion

 “I was superstitious. Today was a Monday. I was born on Monday. It was a good day to arrive in New York City. No one expected me. Everything awaited me.” – Patti Smith

“New York is a city that plays hard to get. You want me? You better work for it. I love the dirt combined with the adventure, the endless exploring, the surprising specificity that you can find, and, of course, the mind-boggling stream of humans.” – Rony Vardi

“In Hollywood, actors learn to act from watching television. In New York, people learn to act by walking down the street.” – Sidney Lumet

“New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.”– Matt Bomer

Below quotes on NYC include a few NYC quotes on life and also moving to New York quotes. Feel free to use these New York city captions as picture captions.

“In Boston, they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is the worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?” – Mark Twain

“In the country, there are a few chances of sudden rejuvenation–a shift in weather, perhaps, or something arriving in the mail. But in New York the chances are endless. ” – E.B. White

“New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery to death, and you erect pyramids of democracy with the vertical organ-pipes of your skyscrapers all meeting at the point of infinity of liberty!” – Salvador Dali

“It’s autumn in New York that brings the promise of new love. Autumn in New York is often mingled with pain. Dreamers with empty hands may sigh for exotic lands; It’s autumn in New York; It’s good to live it again.” Billie Day

“I grew up in New York State, not New York City, which is what everyone thinks when you say “New York.” – Amber Smith

“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book – and does.” – Groucho Marx

“It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York.” – O Henry

“New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.” – David B. Lentz

“I think New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administrative center of American culture.” – Saul Bellow

“It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens but to astonish the world.” – Susan Ertz

“New York is a great monument to the power of money and greed a race for rent.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“The thing that impressed me then as now about New York was sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant – the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak – and so very, very many.” – Theodore Dreiser

“I returned to Brooklyn because it’s closest to my heart, and I have history here, which I wanted to share with my children. Let’s face it, the world has changed everywhere, but NYC is still the biggest melting pot in the world. The diversity in culture is unmatched.” – Debi Mazar

“The only real advantage of New York is that all its inhabitants ascend to heaven right after their deaths, having served their full term in hell right on Manhattan Island.” – Barnard Bulletin

“Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now that may be a bit much for those who don’t come from New York, but clearly, we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advances.” – David Dinkins

“New York, what could I say? For a French guy—a Parisian guy—New York is perfectly exotic, and at the same time, you feel at home. It’s very French and very American. It’s all of the great musicians like Steve Reich and Lou Reed. For me, this is New York.” – Christian Malazzai

“In Rome, I am weighed down by a lack of momentum, the inertia of a spent civilization. In New York, I feel plugged into a strong alternating current of hope and despair.” – Ted Morgan

“Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone’s got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn’t mean it’s an unfriendly place — just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I’m a social creature but there are times and places you just don’t want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.” – Laura Anne Gilman

“Like a rat in a cage, pulling minimum wage. New York, I love you, but you’re bringing me down.” – LCD Soundsystem

“In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space.” – Judith Stone

“A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings. And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.” – Stephen Birmingham

“New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is, in fact, the most sentimental of the world’s great cities – in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.” – John Gregory Dunne 

“Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone’s got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That’s a very big thing – the experience of not living where you started. It changes you in all kinds of ways.” – Salman Rushdie

“When I came to New York as a writer, I was taken with the idea that you’re only getting in on bridges and ferries and through tunnels. The idea behind ‘Takedown’ is that it would be very hard to get out.”– Brad Thor

“Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.” – Teju Cole

“In New York, the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.” – Edna Ferber

“Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New York — ’He was smiling. I stopped. ‘What do you feel in New York?’ he asked. ‘Perhaps you feel,’ I told him, ‘all the time to come. There’s such power there, everything is in such movement. You can’t help wondering—I can’t help wondering—what it will all be like—many years from now.” – James Baldwin

“The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, the lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.” – Sydney J. Harris

“I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.” – Barack Obama

“You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. ‘A reality shaped around your own desires’ —there is something sociopathic in that ambition.” – Zadie Smith

“You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” – Edward Rutherfurd

“Unlike Rome, New York has never learned the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future.” – Michel de Certeau

“The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn’t go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.” – Georges Simenon

“If a newspaper prints a sex crime, it’s smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it’s a sociological study.” – Adolph S. Ochs

“And the truth is, Henry loves the store. Loves the smell of books, and the steady weight of them on shelves, the presence of old titles and the arrival of new ones, and the fact that in a city like New York, there will always be readers.” – V.E. Schwab

LONG NEW YORK CAPTIONS FOR INSTAGRAM

Below is the list of New York City captions if you need to captions for New York pictures to be detailed. These are words of writers, travelers, celebrities, and famous New York movie quotes that give best glimpses into the heart of this gorgeous city.

“New York remains what it has always been: a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring – it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.” – Paul Goldberger

“New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her alluring white face and hiding her crooked hands and feet under the folds of her wide garments – constantly enticing thousands from far within, and tempting those who come from across the seas to go no farther. And all these become the victims of her caprice. Some she at once crushes beneath her cruel feet; others she condemns to a fate like that of galley slaves; a few she flavors and fondles, riding them high on the bubbles of fortune; then with a sudden breath she blows the bubbles out and laughs mockingly as she watches them fall.” – James Weldon Johnson

“I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later—because I did not belong there, did not come from there—but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.” – Joan Didion

“New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on. The more furious space, the more diminished the spirit. A constant ferment, but it might just as well be going in a test tube. Nobody knows what it’s all about. Nobody directs energy. Stupendous. Bizarre. Baffling. A tremendous reactive urge, but absolutely uncoordinated.” – Henry Miller.

Share these NYC quotes about life as captions for Instagram pictures too.

“There was so much here, so much color and taste and light and motion. So much pain and so much hope. The city was ugly and beautiful at once, and it was always changing, always reintroducing itself to you; you couldn’t look away even for a moment, or you might miss the New York of today, which would be different from tomorrow’s New York and next week’s New York.” – Katharine McGee

“The city was different back then–poor and crumbling–kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her.” – Candace Bushnell

“All the animals come out at night — whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take ’em to Harlem. I don’t care. Make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won’t even take spooks. Don’t make any difference to me.” – Travis Bickle

“Over the great bridge, with sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city has seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She has become a wicked and wild bitch in her old age has Manhattan, but there is still no sensation in the world quite like walking her sidewalks. Great surges of energy sweep all around you; the air fizzes like champagne, while always there is a nervous edge of fear and whispered distant promises of sudden violence.” – Tom Davies

“New York has an energy that takes root inside of you. Even a transplant like me gets to know the different boroughs, like they’re living, breathing organisms. There’s nowhere else like it. The city becomes a character in your life, a love you can’t take out of you. The mysteriously human element about this place can make you fall in love and break your heart at the same time.” – Renee Carlino

“He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. No, make that: He romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.” – Manhattan

“New York has a thousand universes in it that don’t always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don’t.” – Jay Z

“Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of purpose; everyone’s got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn’t mean it’s an unfriendly place — just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I’m a social creature but there are times and places you just don’t want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.” – Laura Anne Gilman

A few more long New York City captions that beautifully describe moving into NYC, living there, and experience life in this big city.

“There’s an old saying about life in the two cities: That you should live in New York, but leave before you become hard, and live in California, but leave before you become soft. Speaking physically, this is bullshit: Humans are much better off being in shape than turning to jelly.” – Jake Dobkin

“My advice for aspiring writers is to go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.” – Walter Kirn

“One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It’s not like if you’re in Los Angeles, where everyone’s so actively working on cheerfulness and mental and physical health that if they sense you’re down, they shun you. Also, all that sunshine is a cruel joke when you’re depressed. In New York, even in your misery, you feel like you belong.” – Mindy Kaling

“In New York City people spend ten years making something amazing happen, something that captures the essence of an idea so perfectly that sud­denly the world becomes ten times clearer. It’s beautiful and it’s powerful and someone devoted a huge piece of their life to it. It’s just that there are a lot of people doing a lot of amazing things, so eventually, you get a little jaded.” – Hank Green

NEW YORK PUNS AND JOKES

After an exhaustive list of the amazing New York City captions, it’s time to wrap up with some New York city puns, including NYC tourist puns, and puns about travel in New York.

Enjoy these New York puns by sharing them as NYC quotes for FB.

In winter, New York makes a great frost impression

Times Square heals all wounds

I’d really lake to live by Central Park

Stop Yankeeng my chain.

It’s hip to be in Times Square.

A trip to NYC can be very taxing on your wallet

The sky’s the limit .

I think I was made to line in New York

We’re all out of Stock

I’m so happy we MET

After sightseeing all day, I’m Central Parking myself down for the rest of the night.

Someone tell Gossip Girl I’m here right now.

Times Square’s so bright, I need to wear shades

Central Park always perks me up

In winter, NYC is the city of tights

I’m not happy, but I’m not Madison

They really dropped the ball this year.

The East Coast is the Best Toast

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101 Captivating New York Quotes Perfect For Instagram

by Mark and Kristen Morgan

Published: September 7, 2022

There is something special about New York City. You can feel it the first time you visit . This collection of NY quotes is meant to insure your wanderlust and help you find the best Instagram captions for your trip.

We’ve organized this list featuring quotes about New York into various topics so you can easily search for a particular theme.

Famous Quotes About New York City

1. “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

2. “This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.” – Michael Bloomberg

3. “I didn’t know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.” – Greta Gerwig

4. “I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.” – Milos Forman

5. “I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.” – David Bowie

6. ““Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” – Mark Twain

7. “New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.” – Rachel McAdams

8. “If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.” – Ellen R. Shapiro

9. “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Tom Wolfe

10. “I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.” – James Cameron

11. “New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.” – Matt Bomer

12. “A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.” – Lady Gaga

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Greatest New York City Quotes

13. “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” – Fran Lebowitz

14. “New York is not a city – it’s a world.” – Iman

15. “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” – Georgia O’Keefe

16. “Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud.” – James Baldwin

17. “I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.” – Ayn Rand

18. “I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork.” – Madonna

19. “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” – Simone de Beauvoir

20. ““I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Truman Capote

21. “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” – Nora Ephron

22. “If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” – Peter Shaffer

23. “Living in California adds ten years to a man’s life. And those extra ten years I’d like to spent in New York.” – Harry Ruby

24. “I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal.” – Henrik Lundquist

25. “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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New York City Song Quotes

26. “Welcome to New York. It’s been waiting for you.” – Taylor Swift

27. “I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.” – Frank Sinatra

28. “To be young and in love in New York City.” – Lauv

29. “New York, you make it happen.” – Beastie Boy

30. “A concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you.” – Alicia Keys

31. “I’m in a New York state of mind.” – Billy Joel

32. “Spread love it’s the Brooklyn Way.” – The Notorious B.I.G

33. “The bus for New York City!” – Stevie Wonder

34. “Times Square can’t shine as bright as you.” – Plain White T’s

35. “Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?” – Ella Fitzgerald

36. “Bright Lights Big City.” – Gary Clark Jr.

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New York Movie Quotes

37. “Here we are Marv, New York City, the land of opportunity.” – Harry, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

38. “My father told me we was all born of blood and tribulation, and so then too was our great city.” – Amsterdam Vallon, Gangs of New York

39. “Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break!” – Stan Lee, The Avengers

40. “Well, like you said there’s no friends on Wall Street. Right?” – Naomi Lapaglia, The Wolf of Wall Street

41. “We’ve busted murderers; we’ve taken down cartels. But today we face the worst New York has to offer: the fire department.” – Andy Samberg Brooklyn Nine-Nine

42. “You’re a New Yorker, that won’t ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west but you’re still a New Yorker.” – James Brogan, 25th Hour

43. “The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich.” – Sophie, Frances Ha

44. “And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.” – Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

45. “I always dreamed of going to Madison Square Gardens, see the Knicks play.” – Jackie Chan, Rush Hour 2 

46. “Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker’s God-given right.” – The Mayor of New York, Ghostbusters II

47. “Only a Carpathian would come back to life now and choose New York.” – Bill Murray, Ghostbusters II

48. “I went to New York once in 1981, and I just did not feel safe.” – Ted

49. “Gossip Girl Here, Your One And Only Source Into The Scandalous Lives Of Manhattan’s Elite.” – Kristen Bell, Gossip Girl

50. “Do you ever see any penguins running free around New York City? Of course not. We don’t belong here. It’s just not natural.” – Skipper, Madagascar

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Quotes About New Yorkers

51. “My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.” – Bill Murray

52. “But there is one thing about it—once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” – John Steinbeck

53. “New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.” – Djuna Barnes

54. “New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something.” – Lindsey Kelk

55. “When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.” – Neil Simon

56. “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike

57. “Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.” – Dorothy Parker

58. “I live in New York City, so there’s so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.” – Jesse Eisenberg

59. “The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.” –Malcolm S. Forbes

60. “New York ladies all look immaculate.” – Zac Posen

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Statue Of Liberty Quotes

61. “Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.” – Charles B. Rangel

62. “And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really as the American Dream.” – Daniel Libeskind

63. “Many of America’s and New York’s sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.” – Michael Bloomberg

64. “The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.” – Frank Luntz

65. “It’s not enough for the torch of liberty to be held up high only by one woman, every human must hold the torch up high in every corner of the world.” – Abhijit Naskar

66. “I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.” – Viktor E. Frankl

67. “As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, What a wonderful country.” – Elaine Chao

68. “I have a wonderful make-up crew. They’re the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.” – Bob Hope

69. “The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she’d lighten up a bit.” – Dov Davidoff

70. “The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she’d lighten up a bit.” – Dov Davidoff

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Funny NYC Quotes

71. “Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” – Johnny Carson

72. “Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish.” – Awkafina

73. “Skyscraper National Park.” – Kurt Vonnegut

74. “It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” –  Agatha Christie

75. “Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.” –   Irving Berlin

76. “I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.” – Rick Riordan

77. “The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.” – Jay Leno

78. “On a New York subway, you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.” – Lewis Grizzard

78. “New York may be overcrowded and overpriced, but it’s the only place you can get a good bacon, egg and cheese.” – Samantha Oppenheimer

79. “New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.” – Russell Baker

80. “Someone asked me for directions, so you can call me a real New Yorker.”

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New York City Puns

81. “Finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. It’s a boat time!”

82. “Winter in NYC is snow joke.”

83. “A trip to New York takes quite a bit of dough.”

84. “I got these Statue of Liberty tickets from my Ferry Godmother.”

85. “New York stole a pizza my heart.”

86. “New York hot dogs are total weiners.”

87. “After a day of sightseeing, I’m Central Park-ing myself here for the night.”

88. “Central Park always perks me up.”

89. “The Statue of Liberty was ahead of her time. You can tell because she already had a tablet.”

90. “A trip to NYC can be very taxi-ng on your wallet.”

91. “Stop Yankee-ng my chain.”

92. “I’m so glad we MET.”

93. “New York’s Chinatown has the best dim sum; it’s rice to have some variety.”

94. “I ordered a Manhattan, but it looks like the bartender decided to take a liberty with my drink.”

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Best Sex And The City Quotes

95. “Men in their forties are like The New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle. Tricky, complicated, and you’re never really sure you’ve got the right answer.” – Mr. Big

96. “If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. And I can’t have nobody talking nonsense about my boyfriend.” – Carrie Bradshaw

97. “When I first moved to New York, I bought Vogue instead of dinner. I just felt it fed me more.” – Carrie Bradshaw

98. “In New York, you’re always looking for a job, apartment, or a boyfriend.” – Carrie Bradshaw

99. “I’ve spent $40,000 on shoes and I have no place to live? I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes!” – Carrie Bradshaw

100. “So maybe it won’t look like you thought it would in high school, but it’s important to remember that love is possible. Anything is possible. This is New York.” – Carrie Bradshaw

101. Carrie: “New York Magazine says Brooklyn is the new Manhattan.” Miranda: “Yes, but whoever wrote that lives in Brooklyn.” – Sex and the City

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114 Best New York Quotes and NYC Instagram Captions 2024

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Known for its fast pace, the vibrant city of New York is arguably one of the best cities in the entire world! So if you’re looking to learn more then you’re in the right place. 

Below I’ve curated a bumper list of the best New York quotes that are guaranteed to have you booking your next trip to the Big Apple! 

Not only can you use these best quotes about New York City to inspire your vacation, but they are also perfect for those looking for New York Captions for Instagram!

Whilst in  New York , you might also like to check out:

• Best Statue of Liberty Quotes and Captions
• Top Brooklyn Quotes and Brooklyn Bridge Captions for Instagram

Quotes on New York City

• “I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards: New York.”– Milos Forman
• “I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.” — Ayn Rand
• “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” — Simone de Beauvoir
• “New York is not a city – it’s a world.” — Iman
• “It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.”  —  Timothy F. Cahill

Best New York Captions for Instagram

• “New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the centre of the world, the lion’s den.” – Zubin Mehta
• If a man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
• London is a mystery, NYC is an explanation.
• “If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City.”
• “Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York.”

Short New York Quotes for Instagram

• Welcome to the concrete jungle
• Taking a bite out of the Big Apple
• A New York minute
• Sleepless nights and city lights
• Wanderlust and city dust
• Once upon a time in New York

Funny Quotes about New York City

• “New York City is a tourist trap I don’t mind being in.”
• “A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else.”
• “New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.” – Russell Baker
• “I fell in love. His name is New York.”
• “Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” –  Johnny Carson
• “It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” – Agatha Christie
• “Someone asked me for directions, so you can call me a real New Yorker.”
• “When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.”― Neil Simon

Top NYC Quotes and New York Sayings

• “Anything is possible. This is New York.”
• “The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes.” – Pete Hamill
• “If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” ― Peter Shaffer
• “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” — John Updike
• “Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.” –  Irving Berlin
• “More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm.” – Marilyn J. Appleberg
• “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

Best Quotes for New York

• “Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough.” – John Steinbeck
• “Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” –   Twain
• “New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Tom Wolfe
• “I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• “Give me the streets of Manhattan!” – Walt Whitman
•  “The glamour of it all! New York! America!” – Charlie Chaplin
• “If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.” – Ellen R. Shapiro

Short NYC Instagram Captions

• Enjoying every New York minute
• New York, New Me
• The city that never sleeps…
• Late nights, bright lights
• Fairytale of New York
• My heart burns for the city lights

Funny New York Instagram Captions

• I’m just a little apple in the Big Apple.
• I came, I ate, I conquered.
• Staten Island floats my  boat.
• Times Square’s so  bright , I need to wear  shades .
• I’m so happy we  MET

Funny New York City Instagram Captions

• Stop  Yankee-ng  my chain.
• First Time-rs Square.
• A trip to NYC can be very taxi-ng on your wallet
• In winter, NYC is the city of  tights .
• After sightseeing all day, I’m Central Park-ing myself down for the rest of the night

New York Puns for Instagram

• The views from the Empire State Building couldn’t be any  NYCer.
• Finally made it to the Statue of Liberty . It’s a  boat  time!
• I’d really  lake  to live by Central Park
• Winter in NYC is  snow  joke
• Seeing  Greene

Funny New York City Quotes and Good NYC Captions for Instagram

• A trip to New York takes quite a bit of  dough .
• Central Park always  perks  me up.
• More like Empire  Great  Building, am I right?
• Times Square  heals all wounds
• In winter, New York makes a great frost impression.
• That’s some  bull .
• Don’t  harbor  any ill will towards me.
• We’re all out of  Stock .

Quotes about NY

• “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” — Nora Ephron
• “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” ― Truman Capote
• “There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” – Elbert Hubbard
• “It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.” –  Joan Didion
• “New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.” –  Frank Lloyd Wright

New Yorkers Quotes

• “But there is one thing about it — once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” ― John Steinbeck
• “My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.” — Bill Murray
• “Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish.” — Awkafina
• “Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.” — James Baldwin

Sayings about New York City

• “ London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.”  — Dorothy Parker
• “A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.” – Le Corbusier
• “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” — Fran Lebowitz
• “I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork.” — Madonna
• “If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. And I can’t have nobody talking nonsense about my boyfriend.” — Carrie Bradshaw
• “One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.” – Miuccia Prada
• “This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.” – Michael Bloomberg
• “New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something.” –  Lindsey Kelk

New York Song Quotes

• “Welcome to New York. It’s been waiting for you.” – Taylor Swift
• “New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothin’ you can’t do now you’re in New York.” – Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
• I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.” – Frank Sinatra
• “I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.” — Frank Sinatra
• “New York City’s the place where they said, ‘Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side’” – Lou Reed
• “Times Square can’t shine as bright as you.” — Plain White T’s
• “I’m in a New York state of mind.” — Billy Joel

Instagram Captions for New York

• “Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.” – Albert Camus
• “It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.” – Susan Ertz
• “I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never loves anyone quite that way again.” – Joan Didion

Phrases about New York City

• “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Thomas Wolfe
• “I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.” – Rick Riordan
• “The next morning, I went back to the open vantage from which we had watched the tower so dreadfully slip from sight. The fresh sun shone on the eastward façades, a few boats tentatively moved in the river, the ruins were still sending out smoke, but New York looked glorious.” – John Updike

New York City Sayings and Quotes

• “On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.” – Lewis Grizzard
• “Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” – Mark Twain
• “When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” – Ryan Adams
• “In New York / Concrete jungle where dreams are made of / There’s nothing you can’t do / Now you’re in New York / These streets will make you feel brand new / Big lights will inspire you.” – Jay Z & Alicia Keys, Empire State of Mind
• “New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.” – Henry Ford
• “New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.” – Harry Hershfield
• “People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new.” – Lindsey Kelk
• “I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.” – John Lennon

New York City Phrases

• “Dear New York, I’ll never get over you.”
• “The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder.” – Alex Baze
• “The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich.” – Sophie Frances
• “Skyscraper National Park”- Kurt Vonnegut
• “When I first moved to New York, I bought Vogue instead of dinner. I just felt it fed me more.” – Carrie Bradshaw
• “Here we are Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity.” – Harry, Home Alone 2
• “New York City is where your wildest dreams come true.” “I love New York City…you’re never alone but you’re always on your own.” – Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl

That’s 114 of the Best Quotes about NYC

That’s the end of my bumper list, so I hope you’ve managed to find the  perfect New York quote . 

I’d love to know which one is your favorite, and if I’ve missed any awesome New York phrases then please let me know in the comments below.

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The 99 Best New York Quotes To Transport You To The Big Apple

Looking for some of the best New York quotes that are bound to inspire your own trip to the famous city? I have the ultimate list of quotes about New York that is sure to do just that. 

The Big Apple. The Concrete Jungle. NYC. The City That Never Sleeps. The Centre of The Universe. 

There’s a reason New York City has so many famous nicknames. It’s such an incredible city that it deserves them all!

Who doesn’t dream about a once-in-a-lifetime trip to The Big Apple? I know I do. That’s why I’ve put together the ultimate list of New York quotes to inspire you and enchant you. 

From short quotes to funny quotes, literary quotes to movie quotes, song lyrics to Instagram captions – these incredible quotes will take you to the streets of New York in a New York minute. 

Now, let’s jet to the concrete jungle and jump on the subway…

The Best New York Quotes

I personally love all of the New York quotes on my list, but this selection really are the cream of the crop – the quotes that bring the vibe of New York alive in the reader. 

1) “If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.” – Ellen R. Shapiro

2) “a hundred times have i thought new york is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.” – le corbusier, 3) “one’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but new york is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.” – miuccia prada, 4) “i look out the window and i see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” – nora ephron.

5) “In Hollywood, actors learn to act from watching television. In New York people learn to act by walking down the street.” – Sidney Lumet 

6) “new york is a six-reel movie, with the film running backwards, sideways, cross-ways, but never in sequence. nobody seems to be going anywhere, but is in an awful hurry to get there.” – william henry mcmasters , 7) “new york is an ugly city, a dirty city. its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. but there is one thing about it: once you have lived in new york and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” – john steinbeck.

8) “New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit. A constant ferment, but it might just as well be going on in a test tube. Nobody knows what it’s all about. Nobody directs the energy. Stupendous. Bizarre. Baffling. A tremendous reactive urge, but absolutely uncoordinated.” – Henry Miller 

9) “new york was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.” – bob dylan, 10) “whoever is born in new york is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. no other city is so spitefully incoherent.” – james baldwin.

11) “New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.” – Henry Ford

12) “it is often said that new york is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. it is less often said that new york is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.” – joan didion, 13) “a hundred times i have thought: new york is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.” – le corbusier, 14) “there is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. it lays its hand upon a man’s bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.” – walt whitman.

15) “I can’t with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It’s like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they’re a drunk or a thief. I’ve loved the city my whole life – to me, it’s like a great woman.” – Woody Allen

16) “when you leave new york, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. clean is not enough.” – fran lebowitz, 17) “i get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, new york.” – milos forman.

Short New York Quotes

These short and sweet quotes about New York will give you a small bite of the Big Apple that will ignite your own city wanderlust. 

18) “Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” – Mark Twain

19) “new york to me, means the world.” – donna karan, 20) “if you’re bored in new york, it’s your own fault.” – myrna loy , 21) “if london is a watercolor, new york is an oil painting.” – peter shaffer.

22) “New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.” – Harry Hershfield 

23) “in new york, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.” – michael rapaport , 24) “the glamour of it all new york america” – charlie chaplin, 25) “everybody ought to have a lower east side in their life.” – irving berlin.

26) “London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.” – Dorothy Parker

27) “in new york you’ve got to have all the luck.” –  charles bukowski, 28) “there is something in the new york air that makes sleep useless.” – simone beauvoir, 29) “new york city is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.” – frank lloyd wright, 30) “when you leave new york you ain’t going anywhere.” – jimmy breslin, 31) “you haven’t lived until you died in new york.” – alexander woollcott, 32) “new york is really the place to be; to go to new york, you’re going to the center of the world, the lion’s den.” – zubin mehta, 33) “it is ridiculous to set a detective story in new york city. new york city is itself a detective story.” – agatha christie, 34) “i would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of new york’s skyline.” – ayn rand.

New York Quotes About 9/11

The events of September 11, 2001, have a resounding impact on New Yorkers even today. These New York 9/11 quotes express gratitude for the bravery and resilient spirit of New York. 

35) “Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we’ve come back to remember the valor of those we lost—those who innocently went to work that day and the brave souls who went in after them. We have also come to be ever mindful of the courage of those who grieve for them, and the light that still lives in their hearts.”, New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani

36) “the view from my apartment was the world trade center and now it’s gone. they attacked it. this symbol of american ingenuity and strength and labor and imagination and commerce and it is gone. but you know what the view is now the statue of liberty. the view from the south of manhattan is now the statue of liberty. you can’t beat that. – jon stewart.

37) “Every time I come to New York, I remember how powerful the spirit of this city is. Especially today. NYC, I love you.” – Ellen DeGeneres

38) “the next morning, i went back to the open vantage from which we had watched the tower so dreadfully slip from sight. the fresh sun shone on the eastward façades, a few boats tentatively moved in the river, the ruins were still sending out smoke, but new york looked glorious.” – john updike.

New York Book Quotes 

Some of the great classic novels are set amongst the hubbub of New York City’s streets. These are the best book quotes about New York from some of the greatest wordsmiths the world has ever know. 

39) “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Breakfast at Tiffany’s 

40) “the city seen from the queensboro bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” – f. scott fitzgerald, 41) “one belongs to new york instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – tom wolfe.

42) “New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness, if you have no inner stabilizer…. In New York I have always felt lonely, the loneliness of the caged animal, which brings on crime, sex, alcohol and other madnesses.” – Henry Miller

43) “new york is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.” – truman capote, 44) “so i went to new york city to be born again. it was and remains easy for most americans to go somewhere else and start anew. i wasn’t like my parents. i didn’t have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. nowhere has the number zero been of more philosophical value than in the united states…. and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under new york city, with its lining of pipes and wires, i was out of the womb and into the birth canal.” – kurt vonnegut.

Celebrity Quotes About New York 

Famous people in the States generally live in New York or LA, and those that are loyal to the East Coast fall more in love with it everyday. These are just a few of the most memorable and best celebrity quotes about New York. 

45) “The middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.” – Lady Gaga

46) “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, 47) “i regret profoundly that i was not an american and not born in greenwich village. it might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.” –  john lennon.

48) “New York has a thousand universes in it that don’t always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don’t.” – Jay Z

49) “i didn’t know the city at all, but i was so happy to be in new york i cried. i was so excited.” – greta gerwig, 50) “there’s something so romantic about being broke in new york. you gotta do it. you have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.” – amy poehler, 51) “for me, new york is comfortable, not strange.” – karl lagerfeld, 52) “my favorite thing about new york is the people, because i think they’re misunderstood. i don’t think people realize how kind new york people are.” – bill murray.

Funny New York Quotes 

From the franctic pace of the sidewalks to the unique quirkiness of New York natives, these funny New York quotes are so hilarious and so true. 

53) “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.” – Jay Leno

54) “if a newspaper prints a sex crime, it’s smut, but when the new york times prints it, it’s a sociological study.” – adolph s. ochs, 55) “new york is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.” – russell baker, 56) “manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.” – ed koch.

57) “On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.” – Lewis Grizzard

58) “of course, in los angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. in new york, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. and sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. that’s why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.” – george carlin , 59) “anytime four new yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” – johnny carson.

60)”New York may be the city that never sleeps, but it sure does sleep around.” – Brian Bendis

61) “on my first day in new york a guy asked me if i knew where central park was. when i told him i didn’t he said, ‘do you mind if i mug you here’” – paul merton , 62) “i think that’s how chicago got started. a bunch of people in new york said, ‘gee, i’m enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn’t cold enough. let’s go west.’” – richard jeni , 63) “the flag of new york city should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder.” – alex baze.

64) “You can try to change New York, but it’s like Jay-Z says: ‘Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up. There’s nothing you can do.’” – 30 Rock

65) “i love new york city. the reason i live in new york city is because it’s the loudest city on the planet earth. it’s so loud i never have to listen to any of the shit that’s going on in my own head. it’s really loud. they literally have guys come with jackhammers and they drill the streets and just leave cones in front of your apartment; you don’t even know why. garbage men come; they don’t pick up the garbage, they just bang the cans together.” – lewis black, 66) “new york now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move.” – david letterman, 67) “one of the big things i miss about new york is not my friends so much; it’s shake shack, the burger place. i miss shake shack.” – aziz ansari, 68) “cities have sexes: london is a man, paris a woman, and new york a well-adjusted transsexual.” – angela carter.

New York Instagram Captions & Quotes  

Heading to New York City and need a special caption for the many Instagram snaps you’re sure to upload? I have the best list of New York Instagram captions to speak the words you just can’t find. 

69) “New York is not a city. It’s a world.” 

70) “new york, i love you.”, 71) “somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s new york.”, 72) “new york, concrete jungle where dreams are made of.”.

73) “New York state of mind.”

74) “i’m having an affair with new york.” , 75) “i want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.”, 76) “new york state of mind.”.

77) “Sleepless in the city that never sleeps.”

78) “taking a bite out of the big apple.”, 79) “late nights. bright lights.”, 80) “i’ll see you in a new york minute.”.

New York Movie & TV Quotes 

The final scene of Sleepless in Seattle atop the Empire State building. Carrie Bradshaw and friends strutting their stuff around the city. The gangs of old timey New York ageing war against each other. These movie and TV quotes about New York will made you want to rediscover the magic of these screen classics. 

81) “My father told me we was all born of blood and tribulation, and so then too was our great city.” – Gangs of New York

82) “so maybe it won’t look like youj thought it would in high school. but it’s important to remember that love is possible. anything is possible. this is new york.” – sex and the city, 83) “i love new york city…you’re never alone but you’re always on your own.”  – gossip girl, 84) “i am not going to new york to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic didn’t you see fatal attraction” – sleepless in seattle .

85) “He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Eh uh, no, make that he, he romanticized it all out of proportion. Better. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. ..//. He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street smart guys who seemed to know all the angles. Ah, corny, too corny for, you know, my taste. Let me, let me try and make it more profound.” – Manhattan

86) “here we are marv. new york city, the land of opportunity.” – home alone 2: lost in new york, 87) “don’t you love new york in the fall it makes me want to buy school supplies. i would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if i knew your name and address.” – you’ve got mail.

88) “I just threw away a lifetime of guilt-free sex and floor seats for every sporting event in Madison Square. So please, a little respect. For I am Costanza, Lord of the Idiots.” – Seinfeld 

89) “new york is awesome” – friends , 90) “why is everyone struggling in new york why don’t we all just move here and start the revolution – girls.

New York Song Lyrics 

These song lyrics about New York come from both native New York musicians and famous voices from afar that have drawn inspiration from the city. Time to create that New York playlist!

91) “I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.” – Frank Sinatra, New York, New York

92) “i’m in a new york state of mind.” – billy joel, new york state of mind, 93) “new york, you got money on your mind / and my words won’t make a dime’s worth a difference, so here’s to you new york.” art garfunkel, a heart in new york.

94) “When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve / You promised me Broadway was waiting for me.” The Pogues, Fairytale of New York

95) “in new york / concrete jungle where dreams are made of / there’s nothing you can’t do / now you’re in new york / these streets will make you feel brand new / big lights will inspire you.” jay z & alicia keys, empire state of mind, 96) “welcome to new york / it’s been waiting for you.” – taylor swift, welcome to new york.

97) “New York, I love you but you’re bringing me down.” – LCD Soundsystem, New York I Love You

98) “no sleep till brooklyn” – beastie boys, no sleep till brooklyn, 99) “rambling out of the wild west / leaving the towns i love best / thought i’d seen some ups and down / ‘till i come into new york town.” – bob dylan, talkin’ new york.

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50 Inspiring New York City Quotes to Capture the Essence City!

Nitesh kucchal.

• 23rd December 2022
• Happy Quotes , Life Quotes , Travel Quotes

Last updated on December 28th, 2023 at 06:22 am

Welcome to New York Quotes! We believe in the power of New York City. Its energy, culture, and diversity have inspired great minds, ideas, and stories. From iconic leaders to everyday people, our quotes celebrate the energy and spirit of the Big Apple.

We aim to help you find the motivation to stay inspired and driven throughout your days. So, take a moment to explore our collection of New York City-inspired quotes and find the one that resonates with you!

Quotes About New York

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New York City is a vibrant and iconic metropolis that has inspired countless writers, artists, and thinkers. From its bustling streets and towering skyscrapers to its diverse neighborhoods and rich cultural history, there is no shortage of things to love about the city that never sleeps. Here are a few quotes that capture the essence of New York City:

“New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac’s, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.” Duke Ellington

“Happiness is…. holding tickets that say New York!” ANONYMOUS

“The diversity, the food, the culture, the constant change– New York City is truly one of the most inspiring places on the planet.”

“‘New York!’ he said. ‘That’s not a place, it’s a dream.” Ralph Ellison

“Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window – no, I don’t feel how small I am – but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.” Ayn Rand

New York City is a city like no other – the lights, skyline, and flurry of activity are magical. It is the city that truly never sleeps. There is something magical about it, and here are the best NYC quotes that sum up this feeling:

“At night… the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“Enjoying every New York minute.” ANONYMOUS

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” Tom Wolfe

Times Square is a bustling, iconic neighborhood in the heart of New York City, known for its bright lights, billboards, and bustling crowds. It’s a place that has inspired countless writers, artists, and travelers over the years, and here are a few quotes that capture the essence of Times Square:

“It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.” Timothy F. Cahill

“There’s no place like Times Square.” ANONYMOUS

“I want Times Square!” Betty Who

“There’s nothing like the feeling of being in Times Square for New Year’s Eve.” Kimberly Guilfoyle

“Times Square’s so bright, I need to wear shades.” ANONYMOUS

“It’s hip to be in Times Square.” ANONYMOUS

“You can’t stop traffic on Times Square.” Sydney Pollack

New Yorkers are known for their unique blend of toughness, resilience, and spirit. They are a diverse group of people who call one of the most vibrant and iconic cities in the world home. Here are a few quotes that capture the essence of being a New Yorker.

“Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.” Dorothy Parker

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” John Updike

“You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” Edward Rutherfurd

“New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: oh, that’s who I am.” ANONYMOUS

“If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.” Ellen R. Shapiro

“Someone asked me for directions, so you can call me a real New Yorker.” ANONYMOUS

“I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.” Dylan Thomas

“Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” Johnny Carson

“By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; But New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience—if they did they would live elsewhere.” E.B. White

Travelers and Instagram users enjoy visiting New York City because of its recognizable skyline, exciting neighborhoods, and countless photo options. Here are some sayings about New York that you can use as inspiration for your upcoming Instagram post.

I’m in a New York state of mind.” Billy Joel

“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” Mark Twain

“New York: Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.” ANONYMOUS

“The city that never sleeps.” ANONYMOUS

“I went to New York to be born again.” ANONYMOUS

“On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.” Lewis Grizzard

“New York is a 24-hour city. It never stops.” ANONYMOUS

“Sleepless nights and city lights.” ANONYMOUS

“This isn’t a fairytale. It’s New York City.” Alex Flinn

“New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.” David B. Lentz

The dynamic, fast-paced city of New York has inspired numerous authors, artists, and comedians. Here are some humorous quotations about New York in case you need a little humor to make your day.

“The people who say Las Vegas never sleeps must never have visited New York.” ANONYMOUS

“The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder.” Alex Baze

“Winter in NYC is snow joke.” ANONYMOUS

“Follow your heart, even if it takes you all the way to New York.” ANONYMOUS

“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” Peter Shaffer

“New York is a sucked orange.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In Boston, they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?” Mark Twain

“I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” Truman Capote

“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story” Agatha Christie

New Yorker or just visiting for the first time, there is no place quite like it in the world. So embrace the energy, the chaos, and the endless possibilities of the city, and never stop exploring all that New York has to offer.

Nitesh Kuchhal, an IIM Calcutta graduate, is more than an educator—he's a mentor. With a passion for leadership and entrepreneurship, and travel. He has explored over 20 countries. Beyond teaching, he dives into psychology and discusses social issues. Though he is not a history expert, he enjoys learning about it through books, adding a historical touch to his many interests.

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The Big Apple has inspired some hilarious and beautiful quotes! From historians to comedians and everyone in between, it seems everyone has something to say about NYC.

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The Best New York Quotes & New York Instagram Captions

Here are my favorite quotes about New York, including inspiration from, poems, literature, pop culture, and quotes by famous New York authors!

Beautiful New York Travel Quotes

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. – Dorothy Parker

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance. – Nora Ephron

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

If a man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere. – Arthur C. Clarke

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. – Simone de Beauvoir

People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new. – Lindsey Kelk

I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it. – Truman Capote

The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger. – Frank Rich

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. – Le Corbusier

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all. – Jonathan Lethem

In New York, you’ve got to have all the luck. -Charles Bukowski

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks. – Teju Cole

It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York. – O. Henry

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water. – Truman Capote

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark. – O. Henry

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. – Tom Wolfe

Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. – John Steinbeck

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. – Peter Shaffer

Guys like you can’t escape the city. Hell, you got a blood contract with this place. You’re married to the old girl. – Mickey Spillane

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. – Pearl S. Buck

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. – Elbert Hubbard

I’m bound to say that New York’s a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I’m a wealthy bird, so everything was fine. – P.G. Wodehouse

When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere. – Jimmy Breslin

To Europe she was America. To America, she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world. – H.G. Wells

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world. – Susan Ertz

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races, and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. – E.B. White

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like traveling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar. – Kenneth Tynan

The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years. – Philip Hone

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. – Irving Berlin

The city was different back then–poor and crumbling–kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants.

But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her. – Candace Bushnell

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible – because it is large enough to be incurious. – Ford Madox Ford

Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island. – Albert Camus

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village – the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up. – E.B. White

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me. – Raquel Cepeda

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening. – John Lennon

New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand. – David B. Lentz

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country. – Malcolm S. Forbes

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day. – Joseph O’Neill

Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. – Nora Ephron

Funny Quotes About New York

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. – Rick Riordan

You haven’t lived until you died in New York. – Alexander Woollcott

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City? – Henny Youngman

In New York, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to k**l a person, you have to take the subway to their house.

And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to k**l someone on the subway.

That’s why there are so many subway mu*ders; no one has a car. – George Carlin

New York, the nation’s thyroid gland. – Christopher Morley

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice. – Bob Dylan

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. – Alistair Cooke

But if I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -Tim Gunn

I once started out

to walk around the world

but ended up in Brooklyn,

that Bridge was too much for me.

-Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends: What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read. – G.K. Chesterton

If you live in New York, even if you’re Catholic, you’re Jewish. – Lennie Bruce

On a New York subway, you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. – Lewis Grizzard

I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City. – Spalding Gray

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. – Robert Benchley

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. – Russell Baker

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. – Jonathan Franzen

New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it.

And then in September, it all gets normal again. – Peter Cameron

New York is a sucked orange. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I’ve discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. – Anna Quindlen

I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified. – Anita Weiss

To people from ‘Brooklyn-Brooklyn,’ North Brooklyn is really just South Queens. – Cat Agonis

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn’t got. – Robert Benchley

Skyscraper National Park – Kurt Vonnegut

It’s a city where everybody mutinies but no one deserts. – Harry Hershfield

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City. – Colum McCann

It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it. – O. Henry

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was – and is – home plate. – Brock Yates

Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone’s got a place to be and a problem on their mind.

That doesn’t mean it’s an unfriendly place — just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it.

I’m a social creature but there are times and places you just don’t want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being. -L aura Anne Gilman

Quotes About New Yorkers 

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. – John Updike

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me – Walt Whitman

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. -Johnny Carson

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting. – Jimmy Breslin

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life. – Robert Moses

People in New York love having roof parties. -Todd Barry

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night. – Dorothy Parker

You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall. – Edward Rutherfurd

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question. -Dylan Thomas

My favorite thing about New York is the people because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are. -Bill Murray

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasm. – Irwin Shaw

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does. – Groucho Marx

When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center.

The center is everywhere – wherever people are living out their lives. It’s a city with a million centers. – Elizabeth Gilbert

Quotes About Not Liking New York

I hate Brooklyn. – Cassandra Clare

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire. – Henry James

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world.

The end wouldn’t come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it. – Saul Bellow

New York: A third-rate Babylon. – H.L. Mencken

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent. -Frank Lloyd Wright

Vulgar of manner, overfed,

Overdressed and underbred;

Heartless, Godless, hell’s delight,

Rude by day and lewd by night…

Crazed with avarice, lust and rum,

New York, thy name’s delirium.

-Byron Rufus Newton

The city is the size of a country but has been operated like a candy store. – Ed Koch

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is. – Henry Ford

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn’t come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it. – Saul Bellow

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American. – Henry Miller

New York – that unnatural city where everyone is an exile, none more so than the American. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Bronx? No Thonx! – Ogden Nash

Song Lyrics About New York

Give my regards to Broadway,

Remember me to Herald Square,

Tell all the gang at 42nd Street,

That I will soon be there; Whisper of how I’m yearning

To mingle with the old-time throng,

Give my regards to old Broadway,

And say that I’ll be there e’er long.

-George M. Cohan

Yeah, I’m up at Brooklyn, now I’m down in Tribeca 

Right next to DeNiro, but I’ll be hood forever

I’m the new Sinatra and since I made it here

I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere

Hey, I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.

Da-n-do-da-n-do-da-n-do here I am,

The only living boy in New York.

Half of the time we’re gone but we don’t know where,

And we don’t know where.

-Simon & Garfunkel

See me age 19 with some dumb haircut from

1960 moving to New York City

Live with my friends there

we’re all taking the same steps

seems foolish now.

We’ve been had you say it’s over.

Sometimes I’m just happy I’m older.

We’ve been had I know it’s over.

Somehow it got easy to laugh out loud.

-The Walkmen

Well nobody came to bug us,

Hustle us or shove us

So we decided to make it

If the man wants to shove

We gonna jump and shout

The Statue of Liberty said,

“Come!”

-John Lennon

New York isn’t New York

Without you, love

-St. Vincent

Little Joe never once gave it away

Everybody had to pay and pay

A hustle here and a hustle there

New York City’s the place

Where they said, “Hey, babe,

Take a walk on the wild side.”

Start spreading the news

You’re leaving today (tell him, friend)

I want to be a part of it, New York, New York

Your vagabond shoes, they are longing to stray

And steps around the heart of it, New York, New York

-Frank Sinatra

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5 Things to Pack for Your Trip to New York

The   Lonely Planet New York   guidebook. It can be kind of a pain to find the major guidebooks once you land, or you’ll find them overpriced. I always like to pick mine up ahead of time.

An Unlocked  Cell Phone   so that you can use a local sim card while here to help navigate public transportation and when you’re on the road. (For people without American cell phone plans).

Backup Charging Bank  for your cell phone since you’ll be using it as a camera, GPS system, and general travel genie.

A Camera  since New York is super photogenic. I use a mix of my  Nikon D810  and my   Samsung8  smartphone these days.

A Great Day Bag   so you can carry what you need with you (like your camera, snacks, water, sunscreen, cash, etc).

My current favorite is the  Pacsafe Citysafe , which is especially great for New York because it has many anti-theft features designed to deter pickpockets.

It also transitions to a night bag more easily and won’t embarrass you if you go to dinner directly after sightseeing all day. 

More New York Travel Resources

Headed to New York? Check out my guides to  renting a car in NYC ,  my Hamilton-inspired list of things to do in New York,  and how to visit the Statue of Liberty.

I also have podcast episodes on the history of Central Park , the Brooklyn Bridge , and  Penn Station  for you to listen to before (or during) your trip!

Don’t Forget About Travel Insurance!

Before you leave for New York make sure you have a valid  Travel  Insurance Policy  because accidents happen on the road.

I pay for  World Nomads,  and I happily recommend them. It’s especially important to get travel insurance if you’ll be hanging enjoying time in big cities like NYC.

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If you get sick, injured, or have your stuff stolen, you’ll be happy to have the ability to pay for your medical bills or replace what’s stolen or broken.

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25 New York Quotes: Inspiration for Your NYC Trip

March 8, 2020 By Thither Staff Leave a Comment

I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. – Milos Forman

Even though I live in New York City and frequently see and walk by icons like the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge, I can’t help but stop and think how much I love the city.

Even with New York’s reputation of being too fast paced or filled with rude people (which isn’t entirely true !), there’s just something about the city. I feel like all of the people who said these New York quotes have also tried to somehow encompass their feelings of the city in one sentence. And one thing I know for sure is that you need to see it for yourself. It really does look better than on the postcards.

If you’ve never been to New York City, want to visit again or need a reason to visit the city, here are 25 New York quotes, plus a few that’ll work great as captions for all those New York moments that you just have to post on Instagram. #ilovenewyork

Read More: 15 Most Instagrammable Cafes in NYC

New York Quotes

1. There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. – Simone de Beauvoir

2. More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm. – Marilyn J. Appleberg

3. New York provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing. – E.B. White.

4. New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it – once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. – John Steinbeck

5. If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe. – Ellen R. Shapiro

6. I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. – Milos Forman

7 . London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. – Dorothy Parker

8. New York walking isn’t exercise; it’s a continually showing make-your-own movie. – Roy Blount Jr.

9. My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are. – Bill Murray

Read More: 15 Essential Things to Know Before Visiting NYC: Tips from a Local

10. People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new. – Lindsey Kelk

11. One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. – Tom Wolfe

12. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

13. I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it. – Truman Capote

14. As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not a match in any other country in the world. – Pearl S. Buck

15. New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. – Alistair Cooke

16. I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York. Thank you, God. – Ed Koch

17. There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. – Elbert Hubbard

18. I’d rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world. – Donna Karan

Funny New York Quotes 

19. On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. – Lewis Grizzard

Read More: The Ultimate NYC Subway Guide for Tourists by a Local

20. Something’s always happening here. If you’re bored in New York, it’s your own fault. – Myrna Loy

21. It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. – Agatha Christie

22. The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. – John Updike

23. When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. – Fran Lebowitz

24. When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie. – Ryan Adams

25. New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. – Russell Baker

New York Quotes for Instagram 

A couple short and to the point quotes that you can use as Instagram captions along with a recent or #tbt picture from your trip to New York.

You haven’t lived until you died in New York. – Alexander Woollcott

One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. – Georgia O’Keeffe

New York City is always a good idea.

A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. – Ayn Rand

Read More: Which is the Best View of NYC: Empire State Building vs. Top of the Rock

I left my heart in New York.

I love New York because within its borders you can travel the world. – Dennis Gonzalez

Concrete Jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothing you can’t do. – Jay Z

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. – Peter Shaffer

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New York Quotes: 200+ Short & Sweet Captions for Your New York Moments

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• December 20, 2023

New York Quotes: 200+ Short & Sweet Captions for Your New York Moments ( Your Dairy)

Are you ready to embrace the spirited essence of New York City through captivating and succinct expressions? Welcome to a collection crafted for those seeking vibrant snippets encapsulating the soul of the Big Apple.

In this compilation, you’ll discover a treasure trove of over 200 short and charming New York quotes, tailored for those cherished moments in the bustling metropolis.

Whether you’re wandering through the iconic streets or savoring skyline vistas, these quotes are your companion, adding sparkle to your New York experiences.

Embrace this curated selection that resonates with the city’s rhythm, offering a glimpse into its diverse tapestry through words that echo the heartbeat of NYC life.

Emotive New York Captions 🌆

Best New York Captions for Instagram

• Concrete jungle where dreams are made. #EmpireStateOfMind 🏙️”
• “Lost in the city lights, found in New York dreams. #CityThatNeverSleeps ✨”
• “In love with the chaos and charm of NYC streets. #UrbanVibes 🚕”
• “Every corner tells a story; every skyline paints a dream. #BigCityDreams 🏙️”
• “Heartbeat synced to the rhythm of New York’s pulse. #HustleAndBustle 🌃”
• “Finding magic in the everyday hustle of the city. #GritAndGlamour ✨”
• “Concrete beneath my feet, but my head’s in the clouds. #SkylineDreams ☁️”
• “Where ambitions soar higher than skyscrapers. #DreamsUnlimited 🌟”
• “Navigating the chaos, embracing the energy. #VibrantLife 🌆”
• “New York, where every step feels like a leap forward. #ForwardMotion 🚶‍♂️”

 Best New York Quotes for Instagram

• One belongs to New York instantly; one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” #InstantConnection 🗽
• “New York is not a city, it’s a world.” #CityWorld 🌍
• “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” #FirstGlimpse 🌉
• “I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which looks better than on the postcards, New York.” #PostcardPerfect 💌
• “New York has a thousand universes in it that don’t always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subway, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls.” #DiverseUnity 🚇
• “Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” #MarkInNYC 🏙️
• “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” #TrueNewYorker 😏
• “New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it: Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” #LoveForNYC 🏙️❤️
• “New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.” #MeltingPot
• “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” #LoveForNYC 🌆❤️

Funny NYC Captions and Quotes for Instagram

• “I’m not a city person, but New York City might just be an exception. It’s chaos with a side of bagels.” #ChaosAndBagels 🥯🏙️
• “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of… or maybe just a really good slice of pizza.” #PizzaDreams 🍕🏙️
• “New York City: Where even the pigeons have attitude.” #AttitudeCity 🐦🏙️
• “Lost in NYC streets – if found, please return me to the nearest deli.” #LostButHungry 🥪🏙️
• “The only place where ‘rush hour’ and ‘happy hour’ coexist.” #RushToHappy 🚕🍸
• “New York is the only city where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.” #SidewalkDangers 🚶‍♀️🏙️
• “If New York City were a person, it would definitely cut the line and not apologize.” #NoApologies 🚶‍♂️🏙️
• “They say if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But first, let’s find parking.” #ParkingQuest 🅿️🏙️
• “In New York, even the hot dogs have a personality. #HotDogStories 🌭🏙️
• “New York is where you can get away with being your most authentic self—unless you’re on the subway.” #SubwayEtiquette 🚇🏙️

Short New York Captions for Instagram

• “Big dreams, bigger city. #NYCAdventure 🏙️”
• “Concrete beauty, endless charm. #CityGlimpse 🌆”
• “Where streets speak louder than words. #UrbanEcho 🗽”
• “Heartbeat in the city that never sleeps. #SleeplessNYC 💓”
• “Skyline views, soulful hues. #CityScape 🌇”
• “New York state of mind. #EmpireDreams 🍎”
• “City lights and endless delights. #NYCCharm ✨”
• “In love with the chaotic grace. #CityLife 🏙️”
• “Small moments, big city feels. #UrbanVibes 🚕”
• “Where every corner hides a story. #StreetTales 🌃”

NYC Bachelorette & Bachelor Party Captions

• “Cheers to the bride/groom and the city that never says ‘lights out.’ #BacheloretteBliss 🎉🍾”
• “Painting the town before the gown/tux. #CityCelebration 🎊”
• “New York nights, party lights. #BigAppleBash 🌃🥂”
• “Goodbye single life, hello NYC vibes. #PreWeddingParty 🍾🏙️”
• “Concrete jungle, party hustle. #BacheloretteBash 🎉🏙️”
• “Making memories in the city skyline. #BachelorBlast 🏙️🥳”
• “Last fling before the ring, NYC edition. #BrideTribeNYC 💃”
• “Toasting in the city of endless toasts. #NYCPartyTime 🥂🌆”
• “Dancing in the city lights, celebrating all nights. #BachelorRave 💃🌃”
• “NYC: Where bachelorettes/bachelors take the town. #PartyCentral 🎉🏙️”

Short New York Quotes for Instagram

• “City whispers, endless stories. #NYCChronicles 🏙️”
• “New York: Where dreams meet the streets. #CitySymphony 🌟”
• “Skylines paint dreams in the day. #UrbanCanvas 🏙️”
• “In the heart of the city, find your soul. #MetropolisMagic ❤️”
• “Concrete dreams, everyday scenes. #CityMagic 🏙️✨”
• “Where history meets high-rises. #PastAndPresent 🏛️🏙️”
• “In every alleyway, a piece of the city’s heart. #AlleyWhispers 🌆”
• “Sights that steal breaths, moments that last. #SnapshotNYC 📸”
• “City beats, soul treats. #UrbanRhythm 🎶🏙️”
• “Love letters written in skyscrapers. #SkylineRomance 🏙️❤️”

Landmarks and Iconic Sites 🌉

Brooklyn bridge captions for instagram.

• “Bridging the gap between dreams and reality on the Brooklyn Bridge. #IconicJourney 🌉”
• “Walking the lines of history across the majestic Brooklyn Bridge. #TimelessMarvel 🚶‍♂️”
• “Where cables weave stories and the city skyline applaud. #BridgeTales 🌆”
• “Under the arches, over the river; finding serenity on the Brooklyn Bridge. #ArchitecturalBeauty 🌉”
• “Between Manhattan’s pulse and Brooklyn’s charm, lies this masterpiece. #ConnectingWorlds 🌍”
• “Sunset hues kissing the steel; Brooklyn Bridge’s nightly embrace. #SunsetGlow 🌇”
• “A symphony of steel cables against the city’s symphony. #BridgeHarmony 🎶”
• “Whispers of history beneath every step; Brooklyn Bridge’s silent stories. #HistoricPathways 📜”
• “In the shadows of the skyline, Brooklyn Bridge stands tall. #SkylineIcon 🏙️”
• “The heartstrings of two boroughs intertwined in this iconic structure. #BoroughBonds ❤️”

Thoughts about New York for your Instagram Captions

• “New York whispers promises of endless adventures and unforgettable tales. #CityWhispers 🗽”
• “In the heart of chaos lies the beauty of New York’s rhythm. #ChaosAndCharm 🏙️”
• “A city that fuels dreams, nurtures passions, and paints life with vibrant hues. #Dreamscape 🌆”
• “In every corner, a story; in every skyline, a dream. #UrbanTales 📖”
• “New York: Where the city’s heartbeat syncs with mine. #HeartbeatCity ❤️”
• “In the symphony of life, New York orchestrates its melody. #CitySymphony 🎶”
• “Amidst the skyscrapers, find your inner skyline. #InnerJourney 🌟”
• “Where the streets are the stage, and every step a dance. #UrbanRhythm 💃”
• “Embracing the unpredictable, celebrating the chaotic beauty of NYC. #UnpredictableCharm 🌃”
• “Cityscapes and soulscapes intertwine, crafting unique New York stories. #SoulfulCity 🌇”

Inspirational New York Lyrics as NYC Instagram Captions

• “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothing you can’t do.” – Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” #DreamsInConcrete 🏙️
• “Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today. I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.” – Frank Sinatra, “New York, New York” #CityAnthem 🗽
• “This town is colder now; I think it’s sick of us. It’s time to make our move, I’m shaking off the rust.” – The 1975, “She’s American” #ShakeOffTheRust ❄️
• “In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh, there’s nothing you can’t do.” – Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind” #DreamBig 🌃
• “These streets will make you feel brand new, the lights will inspire you.” – Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” #InspiringLights ✨
• “On the rooftops shouting out, baby, I’m ready to go.” – Empire of the Sun, “Walking on a Dream” #RooftopMoments 🌆
• “In the city of blinding lights, and starry eyes ’round here.” – U2, “City of Blinding Lights” #StarryEyes 🌟
• “Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh, these streets will make you feel brand new.” – Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind” #NewBeginnings 🏙️
• “New York, concrete jungle, there’s nothing you can’t do.” – Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” #UnlimitedPossibilities 🌟
• “Live your life, take chances, dream big, and dare to be great.” – @NYC_Freedom #DareToDream 🌟

NYC Quotes from Movies & TV Shows for Captions – New York IG Captions

• “I’ll have what she’s having.” – When Harry Met Sally #IconicLines 🎬
• “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time.” – The Great Gatsby #FreshPerspective 🌉
• “There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy.” – Breakfast at Tiffany’s #GloriousNYC 🏙️
• “You’ve got to love a place where the only constant is change.” – Sex and the City #EverChangingNYC 🔄
• “New York, you’ve changed me, and I thank you for that.” – Friends #LifeChangingCity 🗽
• “This is New York City, and we have no use for secrets.” – Gossip Girl #NoSecrets 🤫
• “The true New Yorker believes that people living anywhere else must, in some sense, be kidding.” – 30 Rock #TrueNewYorker 😏
• “The city is a character in itself; it becomes a part of you.” – Law & Order #CityAsACharacter 🌆
• “If you only get one great love, New York may just be mine.” – Sex and the City #LoveForNYC ❤️
• “New York is the greatest city in the world.” – Hamilton #GreatestCity 🌟

NYC Quotes from Songs for Captions – NYC Instagram Captions

• “In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of.” – Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” #DreamyCityscape 🏙️
• “These streets will make you feel brand new, the lights will inspire you.” – Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” #InspiringCityLights ✨
• “This town is colder now, I think it’s sick of us. It’s time to make our move, I’m shaking off the rust.” – The 1975, “She’s American” #VibrantVibes ❄️
• “In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh, there’s nothing you can’t do.” – Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind” #LimitlessDreams 🌃
• “This city’s killing me, and I want to get away.” – Hozier, “Cherry Wine” #CityEscape 🏙️
• “These streets will make you feel brand new, the lights will inspire you.” – Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind” #InspiringCityViews 🌟
• “In New York, these streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you.” – Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind” #CityInspiration 🌇
• “New York, concrete jungle, there’s nothing you can’t do.” – Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” #UnlimitedPossibilities 🏙️
• “In New York, these streets will make you feel brand new, the lights will inspire you.” – Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind” #FreshBeginnings 🌆
• “Live your life, take chances, dream big, and dare to be great.” – @NYC_Freedom #DareToDreamBig 🌟

NYC Captions for Different Photo Types (Food, Street Scenes, Museums, etc.) 🍔🏙️🖼️:

• “Savoring the city, one bite at a time. #NYCDelights 🍔”
• “When in doubt, eat your way through New York’s flavors. #FoodieHeaven 🍕”
• “A taste of NYC’s culture in every dish. #CulinaryJourney 🍽️”

Street Scenes:

• “Strolling through the vibrant streets of NYC, where every turn is a story. #UrbanTales 🏙️”
• “Chaos and charm blend seamlessly in the streets of NYC . #CityMelange 🚕”
• “Where street art meets city heart. #StreetCanvas 🎨”

Museums and Art:

• . “Immersed in art, surrounded by history. #MuseumMagic 🖼️”
• “Exploring galleries, capturing inspirations. #ArtfulEncounters 🏛️”
• “In the halls of creativity, finding glimpses of the soul. #ArtisticJourney 🎨”
• “Capturing iconic moments in the city that never sleeps. #LandmarkAdventures 🗽”

Seasonal and Trendy 🌟

Funny new york instagram captions.

• “New York: where the seasons change faster than the traffic lights. #SeasonalSpeed 🚦🍂”
• “Winter in NYC: battling the cold with a coffee in one hand and determination in the other. #WinterSurvival ☕❄️”
• “Spring in the city means dodging tourists and blossoms simultaneously. #SpringBloomDodge 🌸🚶‍♂️”
• “Summer in NYC: sweating glitter under the city’s shimmering heat. #SweatySparkles ✨🌞”
• “Fall is here, and so is my internal debate: Pumpkin Spice or Apple Cider? #AutumnDilemma 🍁🎃”
• “New York weather forecast: Sudden rainstorms, followed by impromptu umbrella sharing sessions. #RainyCityLife ☔🏙️”
• “In New York, I run on caffeine and sheer determination… mostly caffeine. #CoffeeFuel ☕🏃‍♂️”
• “The only time I beat traffic in NYC is in my dreams. #TrafficReality 🚗🌆”
• “Living in New York teaches you how to parallel park and parallel universe-hop. #ParkingSkills 🚙🌀”
• “Life in NYC: where brunch plans are made on Monday for the following Sunday. #BrunchDilemmas 🥑🍳”

Funny Quotes About New York

• “New York is not a city; it’s a world with a questionable Wi-Fi connection. #CityWorld 🌐”
• “The city where the rats are tiny dogs and the dogs are tiny horses. #AnimalKingdom 🐀🐕”
• “In New York, even the pigeons have strong opinions about pizza. #PigeonCritics 🍕🐦”
• “The only place where ‘stand clear of the closing doors’ is the local lullaby. #SubwaySeranade 🚇🎶”
• “New York: where paying $20 for avocado toast is considered a bargain. #AvocadoEconomics 🥑💸”
• “The Big Apple: where dreams come true after you stand in line for coffee. #DreamsInQueue 🍎☕”
• “New York is a city of five boroughs, 250 neighborhoods, and zero personal space. #PersonalSpaceZero 🏙️🤷‍♂️”
• “In NYC, we don’t say ‘good morning’; we say ‘why is the train delayed?’ #MorningMysteries 🚊🌞”
• “The city that never sleeps, but occasionally takes a nap on the subway. #NapTimeNYC 😴🌃”
• “New York: Where the term ‘brunch’ just means ‘I’m going to be late today.’ #BrunchChronicles 🥐🕒”

Best New York One Liners for Instagram

• “In New York, the skyline isn’t the limit; it’s the starting point. #SkylineJourney 🌆”
• “Life’s too short to hail a taxi in rush hour. #TrafficStruggles 🚕🕒”
• “Lost in the city that knows my secrets better than Google. #CityConfidante 🏙️🤫”
• “New York: Where every street corner is a photo op. #StreetArtistry 📸”
• “In a city of millions, find your ‘only in New York’ moment. #NYCMagic 🌟”
• “Walking these streets is like reading a story with every step. #UrbanTales 🚶‍♂️📖”
• “NYC: Where the skyline is the daily reminder of endless possibilities. #SkylineDreams 🌇”
• “In a city that never stops, find your pause button. #CityZen 🧘‍♂️🏙️”
• “In New York, fashion is a language spoken on every sidewalk. #FashionCapital 👠🗽”
• “Life’s a stage, and New York is the perfect backdrop. #UrbanDrama 🎭🌆”

Seasonal Prompts for New York Captions

• “Summer in NYC: Where the streets sizzle and ice cream trucks jingle. #UrbanHeatwave 🌞🍦”
• “Sunset skyline views, rooftop bar hues: Summer nights in the Big Apple. #SummerNights 🌇🍸”
• “In the city that never cools down, we make our own breezes. #HeatwaveEscapes 🏙️🌬️”
• “Autumn’s palette painting Central Park, one leaf at a time. #FallFoliage 🍂🍁”
• “Pumpkin patches and cityscape matches: Fall vibes in New York. #AutumnCityscape 🎃🌆”
• “Crunchy leaves and city streets: Embracing the fall magic of NYC. #FallMagic 🏙️🍂”
• “Winter in NYC: Where hot cocoa is a daily essential. #CocoaCityLife ❄️☕”
• “City sidewalks dressed in snow, a winter wonderland’s city glow. #WinterGlow 🌨️🏙️”
• “Chasing snowflakes and cityscapes: Winter’s charm in New York. #SnowyCityscape ❄️🌃”
• . “In bloom, in the city’s room: Springtime tales in New York. #CityInBloom 🌸🏙️”
• “Tulips, skyscrapers, and city whispers: Spring in NYC. #SpringWhispers 🌷🏙️”
• “City streets adorned with blossoms, a springtime symphony. #BlossomSymphony 🌼🏙️”

Instagram Trends and Challenges Linked to New York Captions:

• #ThrowbackThursdayNYC: “Rewinding time to the city’s golden moments, each corner holds a nostalgic tale. #TBTNYC 🕰️🗽”
• #NYCColorChallenge: “Diving into the vibrant hues of the city streets, where every color tells a unique NYC story. #ColorfulCity 🎨🏙️”
• #ExploreNYC: “Venturing beyond the familiar, discovering hidden treasures in the heart of the city. #ExploringNYC 🌟🔍”
• #NYCPhotowalk: “Capturing every step, every view; the city’s story through my lens. #PhotowalkTales 📸🏙️”
• #NewYorkBeforeAndAfter: “Pausing time to witness the city’s transformation; then and now, an evolving skyline. #ThenAndNowNYC ⏳🌆”
• #NYCStreetArtSpotting: “Canvas on concrete, colors on walls; New York’s vibrant tales in street art forms. #StreetArtChronicles 🎨🏙️”
• #CityThatNeverSleeps: “When the lights come alive, the city’s nocturnal charm takes center stage. #SleeplessAdventures 🌃✨”
• #NYCWeekendVibes: “Weekends painted with city hues, each corner offering a different rhythm. #WeekendEscape 🎶🏙️”
• #NYCThrowbackEats: “Relishing the flavors that define the city’s essence, one throwback bite at a time. #NostalgicBites 🍔🗽”
• #NYCInMotion: “Capturing the city’s heartbeat in motion, where every step resonates with vibrant energy. #DynamicCityLife 🚶‍♂️🏙️”

Hashtags and Engagement 🔗

Hashtag Suggestions for Increased Reach

• #NewYorkCityLife: Highlighting the essence of daily life in NYC.
• #BigAppleAdventures: Showcasing various adventures and experiences in the city.
• #NYCExplorer: For those exploring hidden gems and lesser-known spots in NYC.
• #ConcreteJungleTales: Capturing the diverse stories woven into the cityscape.
• #SkylineSplendor: Celebrating the beauty of New York’s iconic skyline.
• #UrbanCharmNYC: Showcasing the unique charm and charisma of the city.
• #NYCDiaries: Sharing moments and memories from daily life in the city.
• #CityThatNeverSleeps: Emphasizing the bustling and lively nature of NYC.
• #MetropolisMagic: Capturing the enchantment and magic of the city.
• #NYCvibes: Sharing the vibes and feelings experienced in New York City .

Tips for Engaging Captions and Maximizing Engagement on Instagram

• Be Authentic: Share personal stories, experiences, and perspectives that resonate with your audience.
• Ask Questions: Encourage interaction by asking questions in your captions to prompt responses.
• Use CTAs (Call to Action): Encourage followers to engage with your content—like, comment, share, or tag friends.
• Tell Stories: Captions are an excellent space to narrate stories related to your posts, making them more relatable and engaging.
• Include Emojis: Emojis add personality and emotion to your captions, making them visually appealing and engaging.
• Create Value: Share useful information, tips, or advice related to NYC that your audience may find helpful.
• Use Humor: Inject humor or wit into your captions to entertain and connect with your audience.
• Stay Consistent: Maintain a consistent tone and style in your captions to build a recognizable brand voice.
• Utilize Hashtags Wisely: Use relevant and trending hashtags to increase the visibility of your posts but avoid overusing them.
• Engage with Your Audience: Respond to comments and engage with your followers by showing appreciation and fostering conversations.
• Behind-the-Scenes Glimpses : Share behind-the-scenes moments or stories about your experiences in NYC, providing an insider view.
• Interactive Stories and Polls : Use Instagram Stories to create interactive polls, quizzes, or ask for opinions related to New York City.
• User-Generated Content (UGC ): Encourage followers to tag your account or use a branded hashtag when sharing their NYC experiences, then feature their content to build community and engagement.
• Timely and Trendy Content : Stay updated with current events, holidays, or city-specific celebrations, and create content that resonates with these moments.
• Collaborate and Tag Influencers or Brands : Collaborate with influencers or tag brands/businesses in your posts when relevant, expanding your reach to their audiences.
• Utilize Instagram Reels and Guides : Create engaging short-form videos using Reels and informative Guides showcasing different aspects of NYC, from travel tips to favorite spots.
• Consistent Posting Schedule: Maintain a consistent posting schedule to keep your audience engaged and aware of when to expect new content.
• Encourage Engagement with Contests or Giveaways : Host contests or giveaways related to NYC experiences or products, encouraging engagement and attracting new followers.

Crafting engaging content for your New York City-themed Instagram posts involves a blend of creativity, relatability, and strategic use of tools available on the platform. By leveraging captivating captions, relevant hashtags, and trending challenges, you can maximize engagement and reach a broader audience fascinated by the Big Apple’s charm.

From seasonal prompts highlighting the city’s diverse moods to participating in Instagram trends like Throwback Thursday or NYC-centric challenges, your captions should resonate with your audience’s interests while offering a unique perspective on the city.

Additionally, employing storytelling, humor, and interactive elements within your captions and content fosters a deeper connection with your followers, prompting them to actively engage through comments, likes, and shares.

In conclusion, a road trip is a perfect opportunity to disconnect from our busy lives and connect with the world around us. With these road trip captions and quotes for Instagram, you can share your journey with your followers and inspire them to embark on their own adventures. Also, Read Our Travel  Blogs

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Two of the Best New York Quotes

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. ~ Dorothy Parker New York is a work of art in and of itself. It’s a masterpiece that shouldn’t make sense, yet somehow, it does. ~ Jacqueline E. Smith

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Famous New York Quotes

When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.  ~ Ryan Adams It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.  ~ Agatha Christie   It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.  ~ Susan Ertz “One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.” ~ Miuccia Prada The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation than five times the population of any other portion of the country. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe. ~ Ellen R. Shapiro “In order to love New York you have to hate it too. It’s like a love affair–you don’t hunger for it till it’s out of reach, and when you’ve had your fill, you need to separate. When you return, some of its unfamiliar, but oh my god, the beauty of it.” ~ Connie Eisenstat “Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” ~ John Steinbeck “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” ~ Fran Lebowitz “The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder.” ~ Alex Baze “There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.” ~ Amy Poehler “If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. And I can’t have nobody talking shit about my boyfriend.” ~ Carrie Bradshaw  I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. ~ Ayn Rand

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Some More New York City Quotes

“The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.” ~ Ayn Rand “Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.” ~ James Baldwin Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is the day. ~ Joseph O’Neill “I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork.” ~ Madonna More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm. ~ Marilyn J. Appleberg “New York is a city that plays hard to get. You want me? You better work for it. I love the dirt combined with the adventure, the endless exploring (look up! go down that weird block!), the surprising specificity that you can find (button stores! Filipino barbecue!), and, of course, the mind-boggling stream of humans.” ~ Rony Vardi “Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams. Baby, I’m from New York, a concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you. Hear it for New York, New York, New York.” ~ Alicia Keys  New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the center of the world, the lion’s den. ~ Zubin Mehta “I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. ~ Milos Forman  “Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now that may be a bit much for those who don’t come from New York, but clearly, we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advances.” ~ David Dinkins  A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe. ~ Le Corbusier

New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand ~ David B. Lentz “You can try to change New York, but it’s like Jay-Z says: ‘Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up. There’s nothing you can do.’” ~ Liz Lemon Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like traveling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar. ~ Kenneth Tynan Guys like you can’t escape the city. Hell, you got a blood contract with this place. You’re married to the old girl. ~ Mickey Spillane “Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.” ~ Helen Keller “This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.” ~ Michael Bloomberg “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” ~ Tom Wolfe “In New York, the opportunities for learning, and acquiring a culture that shall not come out of the ruins, but belongs to life, are probably greater than anywhere else in the world.” ~ Thomas Wolfe I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. ~ Milos Forman “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” ~ Nora Ephron “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby “Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps; and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded.” ~ Maya Angelou “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” ~ Fran Lebowitz  “Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish.” ~ Awkafina New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water. ~ Truman Capote “A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.” ~ Lady Gaga “Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.” ~ Joan Didion I’m bound to say that New York’s a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I’m a wealthy bird, so everything was fine. ~ P.G. Wodehouse Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island. ~ Albert Camus “It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.” ~ Joan Didion Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. ~ Nora Ephron ‘Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan!’ – Walt Whitman The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races, and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. ~ E.B. White “By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience—if they did they would live elsewhere.” ~ E.B. White New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village – the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up. ~ E.B. White On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new. ~ Lindsey Kelk “New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something.” ~ Lindsey Kelk New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed…a race for rent. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly, and incurious, but above all, it is a crucible – because it is large enough to be incurious. ~ Ford Madox Ford While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me. ~ Raquel Cepeda At night… the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright  “You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. ‘A reality shaped around your own desires’ —there is something sociopathic in that ambition.” ~ Zadie Smith I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it. ~ Truman Capote ‘There is no place like it, no place within an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy’ – Walt Whitman ‘You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all’ ~ Jonathan Lethem The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger. ~ Frank Rich And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there…. Squares after squares of flame, set up, and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. ~ Ezra Pound  Most people are in New York because they need evidence—in large quantities—of human expressiveness, and they need it not now and then, but every day. That is what they need. Those who go off to the manageable cities can do without; those who come to New York cannot. ~Vivian Gornick As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. ~ Pearl S. Buck The city was different back then–poor and crumbling–kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her. ~ Candace Bushnell Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes, and city parks. ~ Teju Cole New York was the only place in America where a person could actually live a halfway livable life. ~ John Green In the country, there are a few chances of sudden rejuvenation–a shift in weather, perhaps, or something arriving in the mail. But in New York the chances are endless.” ~ E.B. White I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘Well, I’m still in New York. Thank you, God. ~ Ed Koch I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it – overripe as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. ~ Gatsby

More Beautiful Quotes About New York City

Unlike Rome, New York has never learned the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. ~ Michel de Certeau I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening. ~ John Lennon “Empire” isn’t just about New York. It’s about hope. No matter where we’re from, we all want the opportunity to work hard and breathe life into our ambitions. Alicia Keys If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. ~ John Lennon The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. ~ Salman Rushdie  “I was superstitious. Today was a Monday. I was born on Monday. It was a good day to arrive in New York City. No one expected me. Everything awaited me.” ~ Patti Smith I went to New York to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn’t like my parents. I didn’t have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philosophical value than in the United States…. and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with its lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark. ~ O. Henry Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. ~ Angela Carter I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has. ~ Paul Auster There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. ~ Elbert Hubbard “When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.” ~ Neil Simon “New York has a thousand universes in it that don’t always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don’t.” ~ Jay Z “I love that about New York: You just dress the way you want to dress and feel really comfortable because nobody is judging. You can just be yourself, and it’s perfectly normal.” ~ Henrik Lundquist ‘New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American’ ― Djuna Barnes “In New York, the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.” ~ Edna Ferber “New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer…. In New York, I have always felt lonely, the loneliness of the caged animal, which brings on crime, sex, alcohol, and other madnesses.” ~ Henry Miller New York is appalling, fantastically charmless, and elaborately dire. Henry James New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am. ~ Delia Ephron To Europe she was America. To America, she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world. ~ H.G. Wells 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 Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone’s got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That’s a very big thing – the experience of not living where you started. It changes you in all kinds of ways. ~ Salman Rushdie It took the city of New York to break them up. If that’s not romantic, the word must’ve changed meanings while I wasn’t looking. ~ Manuel Marrero I grew up in New York State, not New York City, which is what everyone thinks when you say “New York.” ~ Amber Smith That was New York; a whole cacophony of sounds and tastes that all somehow came together to form something beautiful ~ Aishabella Sheikh I think NYC definitely had something to do with my figuring out my life path. ~ T Cooper

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Long NYC Quotes

One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It’s not like if you’re in Los Angeles, where everyone’s so actively working on cheerfulness and mental and physical health that if they sense you’re down, they shun you. Also, all that sunshine is a cruel joke when you’re depressed. In New York, even in your misery, you feel like you belong. ~ Mindy Kaling The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn’t go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference. ~ Georges Simenon Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New York — ’He was smiling. I stopped. ‘What do you feel in New York?’ he asked. ‘Perhaps you feel,’ I told him, ‘all the time to come. There’s such power there, everything is in such movement. You can’t help wondering—I can’t help wondering—what it will all be like—many years from now. ~ James Baldwin And the truth is, Henry loves the store. Loves the smell of books, and the steady weight of them on shelves, the presence of old titles and the arrival of new ones, and the fact that in a city like New York, there will always be readers. ~ V.E. Schwab New York has an energy that takes root inside of you. Even a transplant like me gets to know the different boroughs, like they’re living, breathing organisms. There’s nowhere else like it. The city becomes a character in your life, a love you can’t take out of you. The mysteriously human element about this place can make you fall in love and break your heart at the same time. ~ Renee Carlino He kissed my mitten. “Then we’ll get you to New York,” he said. He described Manhattan as an epicenter of creativity, a midnight tar-paved island where the young artists of the world go to pursue themselves. Listening, growing warmer, I peered up through the tent’s mesh roof at faraway stars, faint glitter, giddy. ~ Aspen Matis There’s an old saying about life in the two cities: That you should live in New York, but leave before you become hard, and live in California, but leave before you become soft. Speaking physically, this is bullshit: Humans are much better off being in shape than turning to jelly. ~ Jake Dobkin I mean, it’s AWESOME, but it’s also a little bit “New York awe­some,” you know? How do I explain how I felt about it? I guess … well … in New York City people spend ten years making something amazing happen, something that captures the essence of an idea so perfectly that sud­denly the world becomes ten times clearer. It’s beautiful and it’s powerful and someone devoted a huge piece of their life to it. The local news does a story about it and everyone goes “Neat!” and then tomorrow we forget about it in favor of some other ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AND REMARKABLE THING. That doesn’t make those things un­wonderful or not unique … It’s just that there are a lot of people doing a lot of amazing things, so eventually you get a little jaded. ~ Hank Green There was so much here, so much color and taste and light and motion. So much pain and so much hope. The city was ugly and beautiful at once, and it was always changing, always reintroducing itself to you; you couldn’t look away even for a moment, or you might miss the New York of today, which would be different from tomorrow’s New York and next week’s New York. ~ Katharine McGee

Short Quotes About New York

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. ~ Peter Shaffer Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. ~ Irving Berlin It couldn’t have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ~ O. Henry The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years. ~ Philip Hone In New York, you’ve got to have all the luck. ~ Charles Bukowski “Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” ~ Mark Twain There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. ~ Simone de Beauvoir New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald New York is the only real city-city. ~ Truman Capote “New York is a sucked orange” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere. ~ Jimmy Breslin ‘The glamour of it all! New York! America!’ ~ Charlie Chaplin One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. ~ Georgia O’Keefe Sometimes I feel like my only friend, is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn. ~ Mos Def

Funny New York Quotes

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. ~ Rick Riordan Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone’s got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn’t mean it’s an unfriendly place — just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I’m a social creature but there are times and places you just don’t want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being. ~ Laura Anne Gilman New York, the nation’s thyroid gland. ~ Christopher Morley When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends: What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read. ~ G.K. Chesterton But if I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ~ Tim Gunn To people from ‘Brooklyn-Brooklyn,’ North Brooklyn is really just South Queens. ~ Cat Agonis You haven’t lived until you died in New York. ~ Alexander Woollcott I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified. ~ Anita Weiss If you live in New York, even if you’re Catholic, you’re Jewish. ~ Lennie Bruce Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. ~ Jonathan Franzen On a New York subway, you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. ~ Lewis Grizzard New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I’ve discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. ~ Anna Quindlen I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City. ~ Spalding Gray I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City. ~ Colum McCann Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn’t got. ~ Robert Benchley New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September, it all gets normal again. ~ Peter Cameron 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. ~ Robert Benchley If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was – and is – home plate. ~ Brock Yates New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. ~ Russell Baker Skyscraper National Park ~ Kurt Vonnegut New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice. ~ Bob Dylan My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City? ~ Henny Youngman New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. ~ Alistair Cooke I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti It’s a city where everybody mutinies but no one deserts. ~ Harry Hershfield It’ll be a great place if they ever finish it. ~ O. Henry

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New York Song Quotes

Times Square can’t shine as bright as you. ~ Plain White T’s, Hey There Delilah There’s nothing you can’t do, now you’re in New York! These streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you. Let’s hear it for New York. ~ Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, Empire State of Mind Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting? Autumn in New York, it spells the thrill of first-nighting.” ~ Billie Holiday, Autumn In New York New York, I love you but you’re bringing me down. Like a rat in a cage. Pulling minimum wage. ~ LCD Soundsystem, New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down

Famous New York Movie Quotes

The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich. ~ Sophie, Frances Ha You’re a New Yorker, that won’t ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west but you’re still a New Yorker. James Brogan, 25th Hour And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors. ~ Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break! ~ Stan Lee, The Avengers I’m staying! You hear that, New York? THE FROG IS STAYING! ~ Kermit the Frog, The Muppets Take Manhattan Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms. ~ Joe Fox, You’ve Got Mail Here we are, Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity. ~ Harry, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York I like the stink of the streets. It makes me feel good. And I like the smell of it, it opens up my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on. ~ Noodles, Once Upon a Time in America One thing about New York City. You are here or you are nowhere. You cannot achieve another level of anxiety, hostility, or paranoia anywhere else. ~ Gatsby Welles, A Rainy Day in New York Contrary to popular New York myth, the ‘Times’ is not omniscient. ~ Dean Kansky, Serendipity He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Eh uh, no, make that he, he romanticized it all out of proportion. Better. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle-bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles. Ah, corny, too corny for, you know, my taste. Let me, let me try and make it more profound. ~ Isaac Davis, Manhattan In Hollywood, actors learn to act from watching television. In New York, people learn to act by walking down the street. ~ Sidney Lumet Zach: Tell me about the Bronx. Diana Morales: What’s to tell about the Bronx? It’s uptown and to the right. ~ Zach and Diana, A Chorus Line New York, New York, a wonderful town. The Bronx is up and the Battery down. The people ride in a hole in the ground. New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town! ~ Gabey, Chip, Ozzie, On the Town I’m at the corner of 1st and 1st… How can the same street intersect with itself? It must be at the nexus of the universe. ~ Cosmo Kramer, Seinfield To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. ~ Theo James New York is not as big a city as it pretends to be. ~ Michael O’Hara, The Lady from Shanghai Don’t you just love New York in the fall? ~ Kathleen Kelly, You’ve Got Mail This city, this whole country, is a strip club. You’ve got people tossing the money, and people doing the dance. ~ Ramona, Hustlers I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. ~ Michael Douglas, Hollywood, and the other Hollywood This is New York City. A man can do whatever he wants. ~ Bloomingdale’s Cop, Moscow on the Hudson

NYC Quotes for Instagram

Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York. Dear New York, I’ll never get over you. I want to live as many lives as there are in New York City. Welcome to New York – it’s been waiting for you. ~ Taylor Swift I love New York City – it’s the loudest city on the face of the Earth. If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City. The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. ~ Pete Hamill What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them?” ~ P.G. Wodehouse I have a wonderful make-up crew. They’re the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ~ Bob Hope I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. It’s a city where everybody mutinies but no one deserts. City life is millions of people being lonesome together. All great art is born of the metropolis. ~ Ezra Pound A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams. ~ Herb Caen New York is an exciting city where something is happening all the time – most unsolved. ~ Johnny Carson People in this cold city are frozen for death by happy holidays. Hello, NYC, your night is a firefighter in my heart. The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty. ~ Frank Luntz The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’ ~ Robin William

New York Captions

The sky’s the limit! Wanderlust and city dust. Welcome to New York. Good morning New York City! Once upon a time in New York. New York is always a good idea. A New York Minute. My heart burns for the city lights. Let the city set you free. Uptown things and downtown dreams! I left my heart in New York City. In New York, auditioning for the future. These lights will inspire you. New York is not a city – it’s a world. ~ Iman The snow is sparkling like a million little suns. This is the only city with a special flair. Keep life simple in this beautiful city. Give my regards to Broadway I love New York. I heart New York New York City girl I am in the New York state of mind. Summer nights and city lights. New York City is my goal I’m in New York – the city of dreams! All you need is love and skylines. Quite simply, I was in love with new york. Meet me in New York Hustle like a New Yorker London is a mystery, NYC is an explanation. The city that never sleeps New York State of mind You can leave New York, but it will never leave you Late nights, bright lights

More New York Instagram Captions

Take me to New York Welcome to the concrete jungle I fell in love. His name is New York. Enjoying every New York minute Hello, New York, you’re looking beautiful today! How do you always manage to look beautiful always? I’m just a little apple in the Big Apple. Happiness is…. holding tickets that say, New York New York is calling and I must go! I’d rather be in New York Forever a city girl This is the city that I adore the most. Breathe in the New York air

New York Puns for Instagram

A trip to NYC can be very  taxi-ng  on your wallet Taking a  bite  out of the Big Apple The East Coast is the Best  Toast What a  brew-tiful  city! First, do no  Harlem That’s some  bull In winter, New York makes a great  frost  impression After sightseeing all day, I’m  Central Park-ing  myself down for the rest of the night A  bad day  in New York City is still better than a  good day  anywhere else Snow happens weather you like it or not Seeing  Greene In winter, NYC is the city of  tights You don’t like my puns? How cold New York City is a  tourist trap  I don’t mind being in We’re all out of  Stock In winter, New York makes a great  frost  impression Someone asked me for directions, so you can call me a  real   New Yorker Times Square  heals all wounds I’m so happy we  MET Don’t  harbor  any ill will towards me Hey New York! Words can’t  espresso  how much you mean to me New York, I hope our paths  croissant  again That’s quite a  Roosevelt  you have going on The cold here is  snow  joke Central Park always  perks  me up I’m not happy, but I’m not  Madison Queens  for a day Love at frost sight I think I was made to line in New York New York, I miss you snow much I’d really  lake  to live by Central Park Walking in a winter punderland Stop  Yankee-ng  my chain. Someone tell  Gossip Girl  I’m here right now. Finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. It’s a boat  time! The views from the Empire State couldn’t be any  NYCer. No  crepes  til Brooklyn. Meanwhile , in New York…

Times Square Captions

Times Square’s so  bright , I need to wear  shades Meet me in Times Square. It’s hip to be in Times Square. First  Time-rs Square You can’t stop traffic on Times Square. ~ Sydney Pollack I want Times Square! ~ Betty Who How can you be organized when you’re in Times Square? ~ Mary-Kate Olsen It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world. ~ Timothy F. Cahill There’s no place like Times Square. There’s nothing like the feeling of being in Times Square for New Year’s Eve. ~ Kimberly Guilfoyle I’m waiting for the Times Square characters to start dressing as me. ~ Scott Rogowsky I don’t mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique. ~ Lee Ranaldo L.A., it’s nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps. ~ Jimmy Fallon From time to Times Square They really dropped the ball this year. Well, would you look at the Times?

Quotes about New Yorkers

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. ~ John Updike My favorite thing about New York is the people because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are. ~ Bill Murray Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasm. ~ Irwin Shaw This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me> ~ Walt Whitman You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall. ~ Edward Rutherfurd Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. ~ Johnny Carson Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does. ~ Groucho Marx Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night. ~ Dorothy Parker When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere – wherever people are living out their lives. It’s a city with a million centers. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting. ~ Jimmy Breslin People in New York love having roof parties. ~ Todd Barry Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life. ~ Robert Moses I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question. ~ Dylan Thomas

Famous New York Sayings

Only in New York! If You Can Make it Here, You Can Make it Anywhere Anything Can Happen in a New York Minute! The City So Nice, They Named It Twice The City that Never Sleeps New York is the Safest Big City in the Country New York City is the Capital of the World

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170 Ultimate New York Instagram Captions & Quotes!

By: Author Catrina

Posted on Last updated: January 27, 2024

Categories NEW YORK , NORTH AMERICA , TRAVEL QUOTES

Want ideas for Instagram captions about New York City and looking for the best quotes?

New York is an incredible place to explore and take photos of – with it’s many breathtaking skyscrapers and iconic landmarks as well as picturesque viewpoints.

Think The Statue of Liberty , Empire State Building, Rockefeller Centre, Central Park, Broadway, Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge , Grand Central Station, Manhattan Skyline – there are honestly photo opportunities around every corner in New York!

New York is such an exciting city and is definitely high on many people’s bucket lists, whether they plan to visit during the warm weather or during the snowy magical time of Christmas.

The Big Apple, as NYC is also known, has inspired so many people – it has been featured in countless movies, songs, TV shows and books. There is a sense of hope and dreams in the air, and the energy in this city can’t be beaten.

If you’ve been to New York or are heading there you’ll find 170 phrases, inspiring quotes, captions, romantic lyrics and funny one-liners here about New York that will inspire you and fit perfectly with your Instagram pictures! 

This article features all the best New York captions, from short New York quotes to funny puns and more!

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THE ULTIMATE NEW YORK INSTAGRAM CAPTIONS!

Best captions about new york city for instagram.

1. “New York is always a good idea!”

2. “Take me to New York.”

3. “Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York.”

4. “You cannot stop New York City.”

5. “Anything is possible. This is New York.”

6. “Hello, New York. You’re looking gorgeous today.”

7. “New York, New Me.”

8. “New York, here we come!”

9. “New York is not a place. It’s a feeling.”

10. “If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City.”

11. “Keep calm and go to New York.”

12. “Dear New York, I’ll never get over you.”

13. “I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.”

14. “New York is calling and I must go.”

15. “Once upon a time in New York.”

16. “New York – The City of dreams.”

17. “Happiness is…. holding tickets that say New York!”

Short New York Instagram Captions

18. “New York is always in my mind.”

19. “The city that never sleeps.”

20. “Meet me in New York.”

21. “Enjoying every New York minute.”

22. “New York is a 24-hour city. It never stops.”

23. “You can leave New York, but it will never leave you.”

24. “Meanwhile, in New York…”

25. “I want to live as many lives as there are in New York City.”

26. “New York City is where your wildest dreams come true.”

27. “London is a mystery, NYC is an explanation.”

28. “New York: concrete jungle where dreams are made of.”

29. “Late nights, bright lights.”

30. “New York. It puts a spell on you.”

31. “New York is the city that other cities can only dream of being.”

32. “Welcome to the concrete jungle.”

33. “I went to New York to be born again.”

34. “These lights will inspire you.”

35. “Sleepless nights and city lights.”

36. “The sky is the limit.”

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Short New York Quotes for Instagram

37. “I’m in a New York state of mind.”-  Billy Joel

38. “New York is not a city – it’s a world.”- Iman

39. “New York to me means the world.” – Donna Karan

40. “This isn’t a fairytale. It’s New York City.” – Alex Flinn

41. “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”- Simone de Beauvoir

42. “I love New York.” – Hillary Clinton

43. “You haven’t lived until you died in New York.”- Alexander Woollcott   

44. “Give me the streets of Manhattan!”-  Walt Whitman

45. “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”- Georgia O’Keefe

46. “Either you love New York or you are wrong.”

47. “I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away.”-  F.  Scott Fitzgerald

48. “Things always change and New York teaches you that.” – Richard Hell

49. “I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork.”- Madonna

50. “New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.”- Truman Capote

51. “If London is a watercolour, New York is an oil painting.”-  Peter Shaffer

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Best New York Quotes for Instagram

52. “I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards: New York.”- Milos Forman

53. “A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.”- Le Corbusier

54. “London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.”- Dorothy Parker

55. “As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.” – Pearl S. Buck

56. “There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”-  Elbert Hubbard

57. “The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich.”- Sophie Frances

58. “More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm.”- Marilyn J. Appleberg

59. “New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the centre of the world, the lion’s den.”-  Zubin Mehta

60. “When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.”- Ryan Adams

Meaningful New York Captions for Instagram

61. “You’re going to make it happen. This is New York.”

62. “If you’re greedy for life, that’s what New York is all about. If you’re trying to get as much as you can every day, this city is the place to be.” – Pam Nelson

63. “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”- Tom Wolfe

64. “The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes.”-  Pete Hamill

65. “I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.” – Lady Gaga

66. “I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.” – Milos Forman

67. “New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.”-  F.  Scott Fitzgerald

68. “You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” – Edward Rutherfurd

69. “You can try to change New York, but it’s like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up. There’s nothing you can do.”- Liz Lemon

Quotes About Living in New York City

70. “Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough.”- John Steinbeck

71. “I think I was made to live in New York.”

72. “If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.”- Ellen R. Shapiro

73. “If a man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.” – Arthur C. Clarke

74. “I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.” – Anita Weiss

75. “Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.”- James Baldwin

76. “I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City.” – Spalding Gray

77. “I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.” – John Lennon

Powerful New York NYC Captions for Instagram

78. “I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.”- Ayn Rand

79. “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike

80. “It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.”- Timothy F. Cahill

81. “Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” – Angela Carter

82. “New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: oh, that’s who I am.”

83. “There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.”- Amy Poehler

84. “Something’s always happening here. If you’re bored in New York, it’s your own fault.”

85. “Each neighbourhood has its own beauty & idiosyncrasies that spark creativity.”

86. “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”- Nora Ephron

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Funny Quotes About New York

87. “New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.”-  Russell Baker

88. “Skyscraper National Park”- Kurt Vonnegut

89. “When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.”- Neil Simon

90. “The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder.”- Alex Baze

91. “Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.”- Johnny Carson

92. “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”- Fran Lebowitz

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93. “New York City is a tourist trap I don’t mind being in.”

94. “A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else.”

95. “Someone tell Gossip Girl I’m here right now.”

96. “Someone asked me for directions, so you can call me a real New Yorker.”

97. “I’m just a little apple in the Big Apple.”

98. “Times Square’s so bright, I need to wear shades.”

99. “Bike like a New Yorker.”

More Good Captions & Quotes About New York City for Instagram

100. “Follow your heart, even if it takes you all the way to New York.”

102. “The people who say Las Vegas never sleeps must never have visited New York.”

103. “The diversity, the food, the culture, the constant change–New York City is truly one of the most inspiring places on the planet.” – XXMK

104. “I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Particularly when one can’t see the details. Just the shapes.” – Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

105. “Take me to New York City.”

106. “New York, I love you.”

107. “Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window – no, I don’t feel how small I am – but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.” – Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

108. “Oh, New York.”

109. “My life didn’t begin until I got to New York.”

110. “It is a fact of big cities that one girl’s darkest how is always another’s moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.” – Anna Godbersen

111. “There is nothing prettier than a city at 5 AM with its empty streets and cold wind.”

Quotes From People Who Don’t Like New York City

112. “New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.” – Henry James

113. “New York is a sucked orange.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

114. “On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.” – Lewis Grizzard

115. “New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac’s, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.” – Duke Ellington

116. “New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.”

117. “Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.” – Ed Koch

118. “Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That’s why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.” – George Carlin

Romantic New York Love Quotes & Captions for Instagram

119. “If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. And I can’t have nobody talking shit about my boyfriend.”- Carrie Bradshaw

120. “I fell in love. His name is New York.”- Unknown

121. “I’m having an affair with New York.”

122. “New York has romanced me unlike anything else.” – Blake Lively

123. “Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.”- Joan Didio

124. “People never forget two things: their first love and their first day in New York City.”

125. “If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City.”- Unknown

126. “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.”-   Truman Capote

Interesting Quotes About New York City

127. “There’s an inherent energy in New York City that it’s famous for. It makes you want to get up and do a million things all day and stay up all night.”

128. “New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.” – Henry Ford

129. “People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new.” – Lindsey Kelk

130. “There is a time of year in New York when, even before the first leaf falls, you feel the seasons click.”

131. “New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her alluring white face and hiding her crooked hands and feet under the folds of her wide garments–constantly enticing thousands from far within, and tempting those who come from across the seas to go no farther.

And all these become the victims of her caprice. Some she at once crushes beneath her cruel feet; others she condemns to a fate like that of galley slaves; a few she favors and fondles, riding them high on the bubbles of fortune; then with a sudden breath she blows the bubbles out and laughs mockingly as she watches them fall.” – James Weldon Johnson

Famous Quotes About New York City

132. “Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book–and does.” – Groucho Marx

133. “It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” – Agatha Christie

134. “I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”  – Rick Riordan

135. “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Truman Capote

Movie Quotes & Captions From TV Series About New York City

136. “Here we are Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity.”- Harry, Home Alone 2

137. “When I first moved to New York, I bought Vogue instead of dinner. I just felt it fed me more.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

138. “I love New York City…you’re never alone but you’re always on your own.” – Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl

139. “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

140. “I’m staying! You hear that, New York? THE FROG IS STAYING!” – Kermit the Frog, The Muppets Take Manhattan

141. “And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbours.” – Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Inspirational Song Lyrics & Poems About New York City

142. “Welcome to New York, it’s been waiting for you.”- Taylor Swift, ‘Welcome to New York’

143. “Times Square can’t shine as bright as you.”-  Plain White T’s, ‘Hey There Delilah’

144. “I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.”- Frank Sinatra, ‘New York, New York’

145. “Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams. Baby I’m from New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you. Hear it for New York, New York, New York.”- Alicia Keys

146. “I’m in a New York state of mind.”- Billy Joel, ‘New York State of Mind’

147. “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothing you can’t do, now you’re in New York!”- Alicia Keys and JAY-Z, ‘Empire State of Mind’

148. “Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now! History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be in the greatest city in the world!”- Hamilton Cast, ‘The Schuyler Sisters’

Hilarious Funny Puns & Captions About NYC

149. “A trip to NYC can be very  taxi-ng  on your wallet.”

150. “Finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. It’s a  boat  time!”

151. “More like Empire Great Building, am I right?”

152. “The views from the Empire State Building couldn’t be any  NYCer. ”

153. “In New York, the vegan puns are so corny .”

154. “The street art in New York is very ad- mural -able.”

155. “After sightseeing all day, I’m Central  Park-ing  myself down for the rest of the night.”

Short New York City NYC Funny Puns & Captions for Instagram

156. “First  Time-rs  Square.”

157. “Staten Island floats my  boat. ”

158. “Winter in NYC is  snow  joke.”

159. “Living the High Line .”

160. “Queens for a day.”

161. “Stop  Yankee-ng  my chain.”

162. “Spill the Liber- tea .”

163. “I don’t think you’re Dumbo .”

164. “I’m so glad we MET .”

165. “ Arch  you glad you’re in New York?”

166. “I’d really  lake  to live by Central Park.”

167. “In winter, NYC is the city of  tights .”

Quotes & Captions About Leaving New York City

168. “I left my heart in New York.”

169. “When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.” – Jimmy Breslin

170. “Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark.” – O. Henry

Final Thoughts on New York City Captions & Quotes For Instagram

We all love travel quotes right, and hopefully you enjoyed these captions about New York! Travel quotes, whether they are inspiring or funny puns, motivate us and feed our wanderlust, and New York is no different!

Do you know another New York quote or caption that is perfect for Instagram? Let me know in the captions below!

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Take a bite out of the Big Apple and share the magic of New York City with our perfect captions and quotes for Instagram! From romantic getaways to family vacations, capture unforgettable memories and spread the love for the city that never sleeps. Get inspired by our curated list of captions and quotes and let your New York trip shine on social media.

New York Captions:

• "Concrete jungle where dreams are made of." - Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
• "New York, the city that never sleeps."
• "In a New York minute."
• "Empire State of Mind."
• "The Big Apple never disappoints."

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NYC Captions:

• "New York, the center of the universe."
• "City lights and big dreams in NYC."
• "Bright lights, big city - that's New York for you."
• "NYC, where anything is possible."
• "New York, the city that never ceases to amaze me."

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New York Instagram Captions:

• "New York, a city that's always in motion."
• "Capturing the energy of New York one photo at a time."
• "In the city that never sleeps, neither do I."
• "New York, where every street is a story waiting to be told."
• "From the bright lights of Times Square to the serenity of Central Park, New York has it all."

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NYC Instagram Captions:

• "New York City, the ultimate urban playground."
• "Exploring the concrete jungle of NYC."
• "From Brooklyn to Manhattan, NYC is a city of diversity."
• "NYC, where every neighborhood has its own unique flavor."
• "The hustle and bustle of NYC is what makes it so special."

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New York Captions for Instagram:

• "New York, the city that inspires me."
• "Lost in the magic of New York City."
• "NYC, where every corner is a photo opportunity."
• "The energy of New York is contagious."
• "I left my heart in New York City."

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New York Quotes for Instagram:

• "New York is not a city, it's a world." - Iman
• "New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water." - Truman Capote
• "New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there's nothing you can't do." - Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
• "I love New York. You can pop out of the underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant bag of money and nobody will look twice." - Neil Gaiman
• "I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline." - Ayn Rand

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NYC Quotes for Instagram:

• "New York City is a place where anything is possible." - Unknown
• "There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless." - Simone de Beauvoir
• "New York is a city that never gets old." - Unknown
• "NYC is a city that constantly reinvents itself." - Unknown
• "New York, the city that's alive and kicking 24/7." - Unknownnew york captions

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New York Love Quotes:

• "New York, a city of love and endless possibilities." - Unknown
• "In the city that never sleeps, I found the love of my life." - Unknown
• "New York, a place where love stories are written." - Unknown
• "The magic of New York is even more special when shared with the one you love." - Unknown
• "In a city of millions, I found you in New York." - Unknown

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NYC Captions Instagram:

• "Capturing the essence of New York City, one photo at a time." - Unknown
• "New York City, a photographer's dream come true." - Unknown
• "From the neon lights of Times Square to the serenity of Central Park, NYC has it all." - Unknown
• "New York, the city that's always in motion." - Unknown
• "NYC, where every street has its own unique story." - Unknown

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New York Travel Quotes:

• "The best way to explore New York is to get lost in its streets." - Unknown
• "New York, a city that's always calling my name." - Unknown
• "The adventure of a lifetime awaits in the concrete jungle of New York." - Unknown
• "From the Statue of Liberty to the Empire State Building, New York is a traveler's paradise." - Unknown
• "New York, a city that never fails to inspire wanderlust." - Unknown

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New York Vibes Quotes:

• "New York vibes - a mix of energy, diversity, and endless possibilities." - Unknown
• "In New York, anything can happen and usually does." - Unknown
• "The vibes of New York City are contagious." - Unknown
• "New York, a place where the possibilities are endless and the energy is electric." - Unknown
• "In New York, the vibes are always right." - Unknown

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Captions for Instagram New York:

• "The city that never sleeps, but always inspires." - Unknown
• "New York, where dreams are made and memories are created." - Unknown
• "There's no place like New York." - Unknown
• "New York, the city of lights, dreams, and possibilities." - Unknown
• "I fell in love with the city that never sleeps - New York." - Unknown

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New York Dream Quotes:

• "New York, the city of dreams, where anything is possible." - Unknown
• "In New York, dreams become a reality." - Unknown
• "New York, a city that inspires dreams and makes them come true." - Unknown
• "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere - that's the New York dream." - Unknown
• "The city of dreams - New York, where anything can happen." - Unknown

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New York Night Quotes:

• "New York, the city that's alive and kicking, even at night." - Unknown
• "In the city that never sleeps, the night is just getting started." - Unknown
• "New York, a city of bright lights and endless possibilities, even after dark." - Unknown
• "The city that comes alive at night - New York." - Unknown
• "In New York, the night is just as magical as the day." - Unknown

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New York Trip Quotes:

• "The best trips are the ones that take you to New York." - Unknown
• "A trip to New York is a journey of self-discovery." - Unknown
• "New York, a city that never stops surprising you." - Unknown
• "The energy of New York is contagious - you'll feel it as soon as you step foot in the city." - Unknown
• "In New York, every trip is a new adventure." - Unknown

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Missing New York Quotes:

• "I left my heart in New York City." - Unknown
• "New York, a city that stays with you long after you leave." - Unknown
• "I miss the energy of New York." - Unknown
• "Once you've been to New York, you can't help but miss it." - Unknown
• "Missing the city that never sleeps - New York." - Unknown

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Captions for Pictures in New York:

• "New York, a city that's always picture perfect." - Unknown
• "Capturing the beauty of New York, one photo at a time." - Unknown
• "From the towering skyscrapers to the charming streets of Brooklyn, New York has it all." - Unknown
• "Every corner of New York is a photo opportunity." - Unknown
• "In New York, even the graffiti is a work of art." - Unknown

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New York City Lights Quotes:

• "The city that's always shining - New York." - Unknown
• "New York, where the lights are brighter and the dreams are bigger." - Unknown
• "The city of lights - New York, where anything is possible." - Unknown
• "In the city that never sleeps, the lights are always on." - Unknown
• "New York, a city that's always shining bright." - Unknown

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Captions for Instagram New York Trip with Family:

• "Exploring the concrete jungle of New York with my favorite people - my family." - Unknown
• "New York, where family memories are made." - Unknown
• "In the city that never sleeps, my family and I are wide awake and ready for adventure." - Unknown
• "Our family trip to New York was a once-in-a-lifetime experience." - Unknown
• "There's nothing like experiencing the magic of New York with your loved ones." - Unknow

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Captions for Instagram New York Trip with Friends:

• "Bright lights, big city, and my best friends by my side - New York, here we come." - Unknown
• "Exploring the concrete jungle of New York with my ride or die squad." - Unknown
• "New York, where every adventure is better with friends." - Unknown
• "Our trip to New York with friends was a journey of a lifetime." - Unknown
• "From Times Square to Central Park, every moment in New York with my friends was unforgettable." - Unknown

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Captions for Instagram New York Trip with Husband:

• "New York, a city of love and adventure, experienced with my forever partner in crime - my husband." - Unknown
• "In the city that never sleeps, my husband and I are wide awake and ready for adventure." - Unknown
• "New York, a city of love and endless possibilities, where every moment with my husband is even more magical." - Unknown
• "From the bright lights of Times Square to the charming streets of Greenwich Village, exploring New York with my husband is a dream come true." - Unknown
• "Our New York trip was filled with love, laughter, and unforgettable memories - all thanks to my amazing husband." - Unknown

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Captions for Instagram New York Trip with Wife:

• "New York, a city of love and adventure, experienced with my beautiful wife by my side." - Unknown
• "In the city that never sleeps, my wife and I are wide awake and ready for adventure." - Unknown
• "New York, a city of love and endless possibilities, where every moment with my wife is even more magical." - Unknown
• "From the bright lights of Times Square to the charming streets of Greenwich Village, exploring New York with my wife is a dream come true." - Unknown
• "Our New York trip was filled with love, laughter, and unforgettable memories - all thanks to my amazing wife." - Unknown

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Captions for Instagram New York Trip with Loved Ones:

• "New York, a city of love and adventure, experienced with my favorite people - my loved ones." - Unknown
• "In the city that never sleeps, my loved ones and I are wide awake and ready for adventure." - Unknown
• "New York, a city of love and endless possibilities, where every moment with my loved ones is even more magical." - Unknown
• "From the bright lights of Times Square to the charming streets of Greenwich Village, exploring New York with my loved ones is a dream come true." - Unknown
• "Our New York trip was filled with love, laughter, and unforgettable memories - all thanks to my amazing loved ones." - Unknown

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New York City is a place that's hard to forget, and with our captions and quotes, your memories will stay with you forever. From the iconic landmarks to the charming neighborhoods, every corner of New York has its own unique story to tell. Whether you're strolling through Central Park or taking in the breathtaking skyline from the top of the Empire State Building, our captions and quotes will help you capture the essence of this incredible city. So go ahead and share your New York adventure with the world, one Instagram post at a time!

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143 Incredible New York Captions for Instagram

New York City is undoubtedly one of the most exciting dream destinations in the whole world. No wonder NYC inspired so many writers, actors, and other artists, you just simply can’t feel uninspired in New York! If you’re already visited the Big Apple, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.

New York City is also one of the most photogenic places on the planet. Tall skyscrapers, insane viewpoints, beautiful parks, world-famous landmarks, what more can you ask for? It’s literally impossible to take a bad photo in New York.

If you already have tons of pictures from NYC but you still struggle with crafting the perfect caption for your New York picture on Instagram, you’ve come to the right place!

In this post, I collected all the best New York captions for Instagram, including meaningful New York captions, hilarious New York puns, funny quotes about New York, and many more.

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Best New York Captions for Instagram

1. “The city that never sleeps.”

2. “Once upon a time in New York.”

3. “New York is always a good idea!”

4. “New York is not a place. It’s a feeling.”

5. “Anything is possible. This is New York.”

6. “New York is a 24-hour city. It never stops.”

7. “London is a mystery, NYC is an explanation.”

8. “Happiness is…. holding tickets that say New York!”

9. “I want to live as many lives as there are in New York City.”

10. “New York City is where your wildest dreams come true.”

11. “Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York.”

12. “Follow your heart, even if it takes you all the way to New York.”

13. “The people who say Las Vegas never sleeps must never have visited New York.”

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14. “New York is not a city – it’s a world.”- Iman

15. “The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich.”- Sophie Frances

16. “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”- Simone de Beauvoir

17. “There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”-  Elbert Hubbard

18. “A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.”- Le Corbusier

19. “New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the centre of the world, the lion’s den.”-  Zubin Mehta

20. “More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm.”- Marilyn J. Appleberg

21. “But there is one thing about it – once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”- John Steinbeck

22. “My favorite thing about New York is the people because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.”- Bill Murray

23. “London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.”- Dorothy Parker

24. “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Short New York Captions for Instagram

25. “Meet me in New York.”

26. “Late nights, bright lights.”

27. “Meanwhile, in New York…”

28. “I left my heart in New York.”

29. “Sleepless nights and city lights.”

30. “New York is always in my mind.”

31. “New York – The City of dreams.”

32. “New York is calling and I must go.”

33. “Enjoying every New York minute.”

34. “My life didn’t begin until I got to New York”

35. “You’re going to make it happen. This is New York.”

36. “You can leave New York, but it will never leave you.”

37. “New York City is the city that other cities can only dream of being.”

38. “If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City.”

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39. “I’m in a New York state of mind.”- Billy Joel

40. “New York to me means the world.”- Donna Karan

41. “Give me the streets of Manhattan!”-  Walt Whitman

42. “This isn’t a fairytale. It’s New York City.”- Alex Flinn

43. “You haven’t lived until you died in New York.”- Alexander Woollcott   

44. “If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”-  Peter Shaffer

45. “New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.”- Truman Capote

46. “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”- Georgia O’Keefe

47. “Here we are Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity.”- Harry, Home Alone 2

48. “When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.”- Ryan Adams

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49. “Welcome to the concrete jungle.”

50. “Taking a bite out of the Big Apple”

51. “I’m just a little apple in the Big Apple.”

52. “Either you love New York or you are wrong.”

53. “Someone tell Gossip Girl I’m here right now.”

54. “Times Square’s so bright, I need to wear shades.”

55. “New York City is a tourist trap I don’t mind being in.”

56. “Someone asked me for directions, so you can call me a real New Yorker.”

57. “A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else.”

58. “People never forget two things: their first love and their first day in New York City.”

Funny Quotes About New York

59. “Skyscraper National Park”- Kurt Vonnegut

60. “I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away.”-  F. Scott Fitzgerald

61. “The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder.”- Alex Baz

62. “New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.”-  Russell Baker

63. “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”- Fran Lebowitz

64. “Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.”- Johnny Carson

65. “New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.”- Henry Ford

66. “When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.”- Neil Simon

Short New York Puns for Instagram

67. “Queens for a day.”

68. “Spill the Liber- tea .”

69. “First  Time-rs  Square.”

70. “I’m so glad we MET .”

71. “Living the High Line .”

72. “Stop  Yankee-ng  my chain.”

73. “Staten Island floats my  boat. ”

74. “I don’t think you’re Dumbo .”

75. “Winter in NYC is  snow  joke.”

76. “In winter, NYC is the city of  tights .”

77. “ Arch  you glad you’re in New York?”

78. “I’d really  lake  to live by Central Park.”

Hilarious Puns About New York

79. “More like Empire Great Building, am I right?”

80. “The street art in New York is very ad- mural -able.”

81. “A trip to NYC can be very  taxi-ng  on your wallet.”

82. “Finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. It’s a  boat  time!”

83. “The views from the Empire State Building couldn’t be any  NYCer. ”

84. “After sightseeing all day, I’m Central  Park-ing  myself down for the rest of the night.”

Meaningful New York Captions for Instagram

85. “When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.”- Jimmy Breslin

86. “I love New York City…you’re never alone but you’re always on your own.”- Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl

87. “Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough.”- John Steinbeck

88. “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”- Tom Wolfe

89. “When I first moved to New York, I bought Vogue instead of dinner. I just felt it fed me more.”- Carrie Bradshaw

90. “The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes.”-  Pete Hamill

91. “You can try to change New York, but it’s like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up. There’s nothing you can do.”- Liz Lemon

92. “If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.”- Ellen R. Shapiro

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93. “New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.”- F .  Scott Fitzgerald

94. “I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork.”- Madonna

95. “I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.”- Ayn Rand

96. “It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”- Agatha Christie

97. “It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.”- Timothy F. Cahill

98. “The diversity, the food, the culture, the constant change–New York City is truly one of the most inspiring places on the planet.”- XXMK

99. “I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.”- Milos Forman

100. “I would give the greatest  sunset  in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. Particularly when one can’t see the details. Just the shapes.”- Ayn Rand

101. “Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.”- James Baldwin

102. “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”- Nora Ephron

103. “There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.”- Amy Poehler

Romantic New York Love Quotes

104. “I fell in love. His name is New York.”- Unknown

105. “Times Square can’t shine as bright as you.”-  Plain White T’s

106. “New York has romanced me unlike anything else.”- Blake Lively

107. “If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City.”- Unknown

108. “If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. And I can’t have nobody talking shit about my boyfriend.”- Carrie Bradshaw

109. “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.”-   Truman Capote

110. “Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.”- Joan Didio

Inspirational New York Lyrics

111. “I’m in a New York state of mind.”- Billy Joel, ‘New York State of Mind’

112. “I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.”- Frank Sinatra, ‘New York, New York’

113. “Welcome to New York, it’s been waiting for you.”- Taylor Swift, ‘Welcome to New York’

114. “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothing you can’t do, now you’re in New York!”- Alicia Keys and JAY-Z, ‘Empire State of Mind’

115. “Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now! History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be in the greatest city in the world!”- Hamilton Cast, ‘The Schuyler Sisters’

116. “Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps; and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded.”- Maya Angelou, “Awaking in New York” 

117. “Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams. Baby I’m from New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you. Hear it for New York, New York, New York.”- Alicia Keys

Best New York One Liners  for Instagram

118. “NYC, be mine”

119. “Follow me to NYC.”

120. “New York, New Me.”

121. “Living that NYC life.”

122. “Take me to New York.”

123. “New York on my mind”

124. “You had me at New York”

125. “ P.S. I love you, New York.”

126. “At home in New York City”

127. “My soul lives in New York.”

128. “Living my fairytale of New York.”

129. “New York is not a city, it’s a world.”

130. “There is no place like New York City.”

Stunning New York Captions

131. “But first, let’s go to NYC.”

132. “Dear New York, I love you.”

133. “Always say yes to New York.”

134. “Life in New York is beautiful.”

135. “New York knows how to party.”

136. “I want a little bit of New York.”

137. “New York is where my heart is.”

138. “Happiness is a week in New York.”

139. “Making memories in New York City.”

140. “Endless adventures in New York City.”

141. “Living my best live in New York City.”

142. “I think I was made to live in New York”

143. “Home is where the heart is, and mine is in New York City.”

Final Thoughts

That’s a wrap! I hope you enjoyed reading these beautiful and inspirational New York captions and you had a great laugh at all the New York puns and funny quotes about New York. Crafting the perfect Instagram caption for your NYC photo doesn’t seem so hard anymore, right?

If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment below or send me an email, I always love helping you out! Do you know some other great New York captions for Instagram? Let me know in the comments!

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100+ Brilliant NYC Captions and Quotes to Accompany Your Relationship Posts on Instagram

• James Wong is a freelance travel writer and expert.
• He's reported for publications including VOGUE, GQ, Time Out and Thrillist.
• James has lived in London, Tokyo and New York; and has traveled to almost every corner of the world.

NYC is big on the tourist bundle: sights, eats, stays, and experiences, it's quite simply a bucket list destination and a romantic city to explore for couples. According to NYC Tourism , more than 63 million people will visit the City That Never Sleeps this year. (That's a whole lot of posts and a whole lot of captions!)

The mere snapshot of a Manhattan street and a yellow taxi delivers: all your Instagram followers will know precisely where you are. Perhaps you're visiting with the boo for a special occasion, be it an anniversary, a honeymoon , a proposal, or even an elopement —there's plenty to savor and share here too. When in town with the bach squad , you'll certainly turn heads both on and offline.

Bustling New York (a place brimming with things to do for couples) is where dreams are realized. Anyone who visits will want to return to those cherished moments again and again. If you're planning on documenting via smartphone and sharing them with loved ones back home, here are some caption ideas, ranging from cheeky to romantic, to paste underneath.

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There's a high chance that you'll encounter adventure in NYC with your SO or bach crew, and what better way to caption quirky moments than one to raise a smile? Pair these with the right photo and you'll be chuckling each time you scroll your own page.

• Central Parking ourselves here for the weekend.
• Table for Annabelle Bronstein, please.
• If you can party here, you can party anywhere!
• I'm still [name] from the block.
• Good boys go to church, bad boys go to Hell's Kitchen.
• Self-control in NYC be like…
• Could we BE wearing any more layers? (Good thing we don't need to do lunges!)
• The city never sleeps, and neither do we. Can you tell?
• I worked all month to buy this in NYC.
• I prefer skyscrapers and subways in my national parks.
• Single girls in search of Mr. Big.
• Just doing our part for the Anna Delvey Foundation.
• The pizza sweats are no joke.
• Tell me you love Queens, without telling me you love Queens.

What lines come to mind when you think NYC? These long-time favorites are always a reliable go-to when it comes to captions and hashtags. If it ain't broke…

• Taking a bite out of the Big Apple.
• Start spreading the news…
• The city that never sleeps.
• Welcome to New York.
• We're in the concrete jungle.
• I [heart] New York.
• Empire State of Mind.
• Goodbye reality, hello New York!
• From New York with love and kisses.
• It's like being on a movie set.
• There's no place like New York City.
• #GangsofNewYork
• #BrooklynsFinest

Brooklyn Bridge is an icon, and whether you're peddling over it on a Citi Bike or marveling at it from a Williamsburg rooftop bar, these captions will do her justice.

• My cute lil DUMBO.
• Meet me under the arches.
• Sharing a kiss on the Brooklyn Bridge.
• Wasting time, chasing cars.
• Dreams of Brooklyn Bridge.
• Tootsie roll date night.
• A skyline full of adventure awaits.
• East Coast bridges rule.

The boys, girls, and everyone in between are going to have a wild ride in New York City. We've got just the captions for your debaucherous NYC bachelor and bachelorette slideshows.

• My (fabulous) F.R.I.E.N.D.S
• Bridesmaids in Manhattan.
• Nobody sleeps in this city…alone.
• Gossip girls, XOXO.
• Spilling the Liber-tea with my girls.
• The wolfpack is on Wall Street.
• How you doin'?
• Letting the gals loose in NYC.
• It's the final countdown.
• Champagne drought in Brooklyn, y'all.
• OOTD slides: New York Party Week.
• Apparently, we're on Soho Santa's naughty list.
• Never apologize for anything you did or bought on Fifth Avenue.
• Mischief in Manhattan.

An NYC date night is always hashtag couple's goals. This city has a reputation for swanky and romantic corners as if they were plucked straight out of a movie (and more often than not, they actually are). Speak the East Coast language of love via these nifty one-liners.

• City Hall, y'all.
• The pastrami to my rye.
• The one with the Manhattan Marriage.
• My favorite person to play tourist with.
• Loving every New York minute.
• New York, you were a fairy tale.
• If you ask us, romance is a matinee followed by Katz's Delicatessen.
• I'll be there for you, 'cause you're there for me too.
• On top with my rock.
• Thankful for my no.1 bagel #HappyThanksgiving.
• Powering through the NYC bucket list.
• He's the cheesecake I always want to sink my teeth into.

Honeymooners in the Big Apple? You lucky things. NYC has every means to pamper, treat, and make sparks fly. Our honeymoon captions are the best way to say 'I love you'.

• New York, new last name.
• All you need is love…and a husband who takes you shopping on Fifth Avenue.
• Could anything be more magical than Christmas in New York?
• New York Public Library's got one more love story to hold.
• The one with the New York Honeymoon.
• Forever my lobster.
• Waking up in New York with hubby is a dream come true.
• He's my favorite cuppa caw-fee.
• I love you more than Jimmy Choo.
• Marry someone who takes you to the New York Mets.
• Christmas sweater weather's always better with boo.
• Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Kisses.

NYC is synonymous with famous attractions, from the Statue of Liberty to Times Square, to the newer stars like The Edge. Here's how to caption the best things to do in NYC .

• How many Times do I have to tell you I love you?
• Just a couple of big kids on Coney Island.
• My first and second favorite view.
• Love you to The Edge and back.
• Just a bunch of Queens hanging out.
• So happy we MET.
• Feeling so high (line) right now.
• I found my Empire fate.
• He's the frank to my bun #NathansConeyIsland.
• Meet me at the top of the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day.
• Literally having breakfast at Tiffany's, swoon.
• GMA from Times Square!
• Life's a rollercoaster but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Anyone whose ever watched a big or small screen has seen New York City backdropped come storytime. We pull their best quotes for your personal city storylines.

• "Year after year, twenty-something women come to New York in search of the two 'L's: Labels & Love." ( Sex and the City: The Movie )
• "My family's in Florida... I'm in... New York?" ( Home Alone 2: Lost in New York )
• "You're not a real New Yorker until you've killed a cockroach with your bare hand." ( How I Met Your Mother )
• "I'd like a cheeseburger, please, large fries, and a Cosmopolitan!" ( Sex and the City )
• "Some might call this a fustercluck. But on the Upper East Side, we call it Sunday afternoon." ( Gossip Girl )
• "Risk is what keeps us young." ( The Wolf on Wall Street )
• "I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties." ( Sex and the City )
• "VIP is always better." ( Inventing Anna )
• "This city, this whole country, is a strip club. You've got people tossing the money, and people doing the dance." ( Hustlers )
• "Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking." ( The Devil Wears Prada )
• "I like him like I like the Statue of Liberty." ( Will & Grace )

Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys, and Frank Sinatra are just some of the big names who have been inspired by the city. These song quotes make for perfect Manhattan memories.

• "To be young and in love in New York City" - I Like Me Better by Lauv
• "The lights are so bright, but they never blind me" - Welcome to New York by Taylor Swift
• "I want to be a part of it, New York, New York"- New York, New York by Frank Sinatra
• "No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx)" - Jenny From the Block by Jennifer Lopez
• "These streets will make you feel brand-new, big lights will inspire you" - Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
• "Times Square can't shine as bright as you." - Hey There Delilah by Plain White T's

130 New York Captions for Instagram for Your Next Photo Dump

Show off your latest trip and go viral with these New York captions for Instagram!

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New York Captions for Instagram

NYC is the city that never sleeps.

From the world’s top museums and art galleries to Michelin-starred restaurants and delicious street food, there are countless experiences to indulge in. Not to mention, there are endless photo ops  around every corner!

If Big Apple isn’t on your bucket list, these New York captions for Instagram will inspire you to plan a visit.

Best New York City Quotes

• New York is not a place. It’s a feeling.
• You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket to New York, and that’s pretty much the same thing.
• Happiness is holding a ticket that says New York.
• Follow your heart, even if it takes you all the way to New York.
• A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else.
• I think I was made to live in New York.
• Life is better in New York.
• New York… It puts a spell on you.
• Today’s good mood is sponsored by New York.
• New York is the city that other cities can only dream of being.
• Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York.
• New York is calling and I must go.
• “If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” – Peter Shaffer.
• Dear New York, I’ll never get over you.

Short New York Quotes

• Good morning New York.
• Greetings from New York.
• Once upon a time in New York…

NYC is always a good idea.

• Oh, New York.
• Always say yes to New York.
• You had me at NYC.
• Take me to New York City.
• Meet me in New York.
• New York, here we come!
• Meanwhile in New York…

• Late nights, bright lights.
• Sleepless nights and city lights.
• The city that never sleeps…
• Wanderlust and city dust.
• New York state of mind.
• A New York minute.
• Welcome to the concrete jungle.
• New York is always on my mind.
• There’s no place like New York.
• New York, I’m yours!

Cute NYC Captions for Insta

• New York, New Me.
• Hello, New York. You’re looking gorgeous today.
• “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” – Nora Ephron.
• Taking a bite out of the Big Apple.
• I’m just a little apple in the Big Apple.
• My heart burns for the city lights.
• Fairytale of New York.
• Keep calm and go to New York.
• “I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.” – Ayn Rand.

New York Love Quotes

• I fell in love. His name is New York.
• I’m having an affair with New York.
• Being in New York is like falling in love. Over and over again, every minute.
• New York, I love you.
• New York is a love story that never ends.
• Turn on every light in New York City and I’d still be blind if you weren’t with me.
• New York isn’t New York without you, love.
• New York is not a city, it’s a world. And in that world, love is the most powerful force of all.

Inspirational New York City Instagram Captions

• If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City.
• “Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” – Mark Twain.
• These lights will inspire you.

• The sky is the limit.
• New York: city of dreams.
• New York: concrete jungle where dreams are made of. (Or, “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.” – “Empire State of Mind” by Jay-Z.)
• I went to New York to be born again.
• “New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• My life didn’t begin until I got to New York.
• You’re going to make it happen. This is New York.
• Anything is possible. This is New York.

New York Puns

• Arch you glad you’re in New York?
• The views from the Empire State Building couldn’t be any NYCer.
• More like Empire Great Building, am I right?
• Finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. It’s a boat time!
• After sightseeing all day, I’m Central Park-ing myself down for the rest of the night.
• Central Park always perks me up.
• Seeing Greene.

• Living the High Line.
• I’d really lake to live by Central Park.
• I’m so glad we MET.
• New York, you stole a pizza my heart.
• First Time-rs Square.
• Winter in NYC is snow joke.
• In winter, NYC is the city of tights.
• In winter, New York makes a great frost impression.
• A trip to NYC can be very taxi-ng on your wallet.
• A trip to New York takes quite a bit of dough.
• In New York, the vegan puns are so corny.
• New York hot dogs are total weiners.

Funny New York Captions for Instagram

• “New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.” – Russell Baker.
• “Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” – Johnny Carson.  
• Someone asked me for directions, so you can call me a real New Yorker.
• The people who say Las Vegas never sleeps must never have visited New York.
• If a man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
• “Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That’s why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.” – George Carlin.
• “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” – Simone de Beauvoir.

Gossip Girl Insta Captions for NYC

• “I love New York City…you’re never alone but you’re always on your own.” – Blair Waldorf.
• New York, where Gossip Girl dreams come true.
• Conquering New York, one Gossip Girl moment at a time.
• Slaying the Gossip Girl game in NYC.
• Gossip Girl vibes in the Big Apple.
• XOXO, Gossip Girl in the concrete jungle.

• Someone tell Gossip Girl I’m here right now.
• Living the Gossip Girl dream in NYC.
• Living my best Gossip Girl life in the heart of New York.
• Cheers to the Upper East Side and Gossip Girl-worthy adventures in New York.  
• Walking the streets of New York like a true Gossip Girl.
• Making every moment count, Gossip Girl style in New York.
• Channeling my inner Blair Waldorf with this fabulous Gossip Girl caption.
• Spotted: me living my Gossip Girl fantasy in New York.
• Warning: Gossip Girl level drama ahead!

Sex and the City Quotes of New York

• “New York is the perfect place to be single. The city is your date.” – Carrie Bradshaw.

• “Year after year, twenty-something women come to New York in search of the two L’s: labels and love.” – Carrie Bradshaw.
• “In New York, they say, you’re always looking for a job, a boyfriend, or an apartment.” – Carrie Bradshaw.
• “In New York, you’re always just one cab ride away from a new adventure.” – Carrie Bradshaw.
• “If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. And I can’t have nobody talking nonsense about my boyfriend.” – Carrie Bradshaw.
• “New York is like a candy store. You never know what you’re going to get.” – Samantha Jones.
• “I love New York. You always feel like you’re in the center of everything.” – Charlotte York.

Other Insta Captions for New York

• New York City is a tourist trap I don’t mind being in.
• I came, I ate, I conquered.
• Enjoying every New York minute.
• London is a mystery, NYC is an explanation.
• Something’s always happening here. If you’re bored in New York, it’s your own fault.

Famous Quotes About New York City

• “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Tom Wolfe.
• “New York is not a city. It’s a world.” – Iman.
• “Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough.” – John Steinbeck.
• “When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” – Ryan Adams.
• “It’s pretty cliché, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.” – Timothy F. Cahill.
• “New York has romanced me unlike anything else.” – Blake Lively.
• “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Truman Capote.
• “London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.” – Dorothy Parker.
• “New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the centre of the world, the lion’s den.” – Zubin Mehta.
• “You haven’t lived until you died in New York.” – Alexander Woollcott.
• “The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes.” – Pete Hamill.
• “I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards: New York.”- Milos Forman.
• “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
• “I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.” – Frank Sinatra.

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