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City of New York
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Broadway & Park RowNew York, NY 10004
Neighborhood: Civic Center
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Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall (4, 5, 6, 6X)
Chambers St (J, Z)
84 reviews for City of New York
84 reviews in English
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Review from Jasz L.
Astoria, NY
12/21/2011 1 Check-in Here
As good as it gets!
Its going to be A YEAR this coming Xmas that we are here.. Wow, how times fly.. Yet, loads of memories floated my mind of this city and how I have to love, even in the snow and rain... This place is wonderful and thankful for a cherished year!
Yelp also added a long list with events, shows and activities. Life is best, so live now! -
Review from Kurt I.
12/11/2011 2 Check-ins Here
Hey, I'm in New York! I got a gun, lets go see a broadway show!
Its a quote from Wayne's World - don't send me hate mail.
I make my monthly trip - its what keeps me sane. NYC - you never cease to amaze me. Its not the best because its the biggest, its the biggest because its the best. -
Review from Ali K.
11/9/2011
It's the home of 9-11, the place of the lost towers
We still banging, we never lost power, tell 'em
Welcome to New York City, welcome to New York City -Cam'ron
Like it says above this is NYC the greatest city in the world and i could care less if people try to bash it, we are the financial center of the world, we had the World Trade Center here, the Empire State Building, Sex and the City was filmed here, Michael Jordan, 2pac, Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Notorious B.I.G. all grew up in NYC. We have the infamous Fashion Week, the ball drop with Dick Clark every year, Rockefeller Center tree lighting, the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, Law and Order is based and filmed here and even that new hit show has a cult following Suits is has some of it filmed in NYC.
YEAH NOW TRY AND SAY SOMETHING BAD!
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Review from Mark G.
New York, NY
1/30/2012
There's no place better.
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Review from Victor R.
10/28/2011 3 photos
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Hey kids...yeah, that's right I'm talking to you. Ole' blue-eyes and me, well we run this city. Neeeew Yooooooork, concrete jungles where dreams are made of, and I'm in a New York state of mind. Me, Frankie S. & Jay Z., that's how we roll for milestone #100, Yelp Style!
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Welcome to the Bronx, where we droppn' 27 on our way to 28. Jenny from the block used to be your prom date.
Welcome to Staten Island, home of the mini-malls, salons abound, soccer moms and all! Bring you sports cars and golf carts, just don't forget to filler-up at the quickie- marts.
Welcome to Queens, home of the Mets, hoping for next year, a title ain't near. The Jerk is hot, and the Curry is flow'n, eating at my fav Asian spots make my reviews glow'n. Gardens abound, Flushing and all...beer's all around, so come on down and use the stalls!
Welcome to Brooklyn, land of pizza dough. You wouldn't know, you stepped foot in Italy 2.0! Brooklynites...tonight, tonight, speakeasies will make your drink glow. Hipsters, rappers, and artists alike. Sharing one mic, mix'n drinks n' beats into the night.
Welcome to Manhattan, Chelsea, Lincoln, Harlem and SoHo, we've got it all...Hollywood don't know yo. Celebs all around, when you're in NYC you'll forget about tinsel-town. Take a walk on the wild side, or take it kinda slow with a whole lotta soul...NYC's on top with a Superbowl. I'm coming home with Stat N' Melo, bring'n CP3 we win da 'ship against those Miami Heat fellow's. Have you seen the well to do, up and down Park Avenue. Feeling Sinatra's swagger roaming about...Lady Liberty will will lead you to a great pint of stout!
Here we go, come with me
There's a world out there that we should see
Take my hand, close your eyes
With you right here
In Neeeeew Yaaaaawk Ciiiiity
We be known'
Imitators see us
Tourists wannabe us
NYC is numba #1, at the top we sit
But is there any other?
...Fuggettaboutit!
New York, New York, because day or night, we play for keeps...I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps!
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+1 to you if you found the songs I hid throughout this review (along with some of my own rhymes). ;-)
NYC is the capital of so many industries. Financial, Cultural, Fashion, Culinary...yes, we're a different breed. Yes, we're cocky. Yes, we're abrasive. Yes, we're always on the go. But you know you love us. You know that what we offer you, you won't find anywhere else. Park Avenue, 5th Avenue, Broadway, Times Square, Columbus Circle, and that's just in Manhattan! Astoria, Flushing, Park Slope, Willamsburg, The Hamptons. Take your pick, and you'll be amazed at what NYC can offer you.
NYC, the city that sparked a brunch n' cupcake revolution. A city that tv shows & movies are modeled after. The city that gives you landmark parks and architectural buildings. NYC, the cradle of basketball legends and movie stars.
NYC...home of the brave, the tried and true; the city in blue, we are...the city that never sleeps!Listed in: My NYC Stars, The "Joys" of NYC Transit, JFK - Welcome to NYC!
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Review from Agent schmully L.
Brooklyn, NY
Updated - 10/11/2011
Today marks my 1 month here.
Amazing.
I'm giddy like Julia Childs cooking a turkey.Listed in: The LULZ list.
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8/30/2011
Hurricane Irene, eh?
My top notch bitch here, worded it perfectly.
Megan Acosta:
NY dodged a bullet… Read more »
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Review from Ron C.
9/14/2011
"A City So Nice. They Named It Twice"
This is the quote thats written on the back of my double Yankees Hat from SSUR (shout to Boundless for the hook up). I'll be honest that growing up in California I never imagined myself living here. I moved around a bit and couldn't find a place where I "belonged". Opportunity knocked and I didn't just opened the door, but ripped it right off it's hinges.
This place has so much to see, do and especially TASTE. Being in this city is like being around the world. It's a melting pot of culinary marvels that will satisfy anyone. From the plain, simple to the downright weird. You will find it here. It depends on what's weird to you...
Was I the ONE that thought Dean and Deluca wasn't real?
I thought it was a make believe place like "Central Perk" from Friends. I was surprised to see that it's a real place. Yeah I watched Felicity in my teens... I'll admit that.
PROS:
24 Transit
You can eat anything at anytime of the day/night.
The famous sites and tons of Celebrity spottings
the FOOD!!!!
The culture that surrounds the city.
Cons:
Dirty
Crowded
EXPENSIVE
Rats rule the street...
Tons of Tourists!
Midtown Manhattan on a weekend.
Literally the CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS. You will always see people outside. No matter what time it is...
I've got my Ruby Red New Balances on...
There's no place like "HOME". -
Review from Pinky and the B.
New York, NY
Updated - 8/26/2011 7 photos
Earth quakes, hurricanes, heat waves and huge rats! Has NYC changed or have I changed?
Both I guess! NYC seems like just a big city now and doesn't have the flavor it once had! On top of it we are having extreme weather and we are a constant target of terrorism.
But I can deal with all that! This I can't deal with! If I saw it I would just die, no other choice, just die!
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7/31/2011
NYC lost some of it's flavor after 911. Rents were lowered for a while then were raised… Read more »
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Review from Scotty B.
9/6/2011
New York, New York, so great they named it twice. The city that never sleeps.
I miss my occasional trips to the city, the food, the people, even the traffic (who knew).
For those that have lived in the area, we know there is no other city like it. -
Review from Ginn C.
New York, NY
6/15/2011
She feeds me when I am starving for things I don't ask for,
she who
didn't think twice
before tattooing my profile onto her skin
amongst all the others.
There is no other one
who has equal amounts of fire and fight,
who matches me step for step
and bite for bite,
leaving marks on me deeper than any person could go.
And she's so good
she even makes me hate her as much as I love her
and forgive her
as hard as I would miss her if I ever left,
before wishing for her again as completely as I would have banished her.
This is the woman
who fights me from the same side,
who pushes against me as hard as I push against her,
whose body can stop feeling like home for one second too long,
and then I would always see her eyes everywhere I go.
This is the woman
who strips my mind of words and leaves me looking at myself
raw and inside out.
She's the one I never want to leave behind,
who whispers to me
what I am worth,
the pain to get pleasure,
showing me light in all forms,
and I have lived inside her long enough
to know that I will treasure her until I die.
New York City.
I would let her swallow me whole,
eat me inside and out.
I would let the hands of a thousand friends and enemies drown me,
stab my body,
burn my soul,
and still would fight to the death to keep her. -
Review from Brian H.
New York, NY
3/29/2011
100 years ago I could have staked my claim here....ventured from grid to grid and walked from West to East.......Bowery to Hudson....and lived here for little to less. But now......100 years later, I find myself....without claim, compass, or stake.....stumbling up 2nd Avenue and running drunk into apartment complexes containing studios I can no longer afford.
The city was crumbling.....but in an upwards motion.....broken down brick and mortar delapitated buildings growing up and up past eye shot into glass and metal luxury residencies....all the vim and vigor blowing about in this February wind and looking like a city newspaper tsunami with the six coat rucksack homeless henchmen breaking their back in Tompkins or Washington Square.......down, out, and lost by time......and digging their shoulders under the scaffolded upkeep of a newly fashioned fromagerie or some so and so building with the come back later we're-a-cupcake place signage artfully placed in the window stuck there with duck tape.
I saw bums on the Bowery dumpster diving for foie gras placed there by Daniel Boulud....comparing with their friends the difference between three day aged and four day aged and I was there taking a turn down Spring.......admiring the wheatepaste grafitti of Swoon on the old time stablehouse which has been there for hundreds but not touched in 20....this beautiful concrete mass sitting near the very old Lombardi's and the very new gliteratti.......where $1,000 for a dress is just right and $40 for a hamburger is nom nom nom......
Now over to the West Village........where I once smelt the rotting carcass of a broken down cow in a meatpacking district.....replaced now by a hairspray laden Ox..... throwing Heineken bottles on the Hudson......too much for a Grey Goose and not much else more for the stumble home back to Hoboken......
A train up to Times Square....to the Forty Deuce.......where the Lion King, Shrek, and the Beast were scavenging the corners.....shaking down tourists for their hard earned pocket change while the rest poured into theaters and groped for their best $125 dollar seat for the Mary Poppins peep show.......all this debauchery driving me almost near insanity in Travis Bickle like fashion............one of these days a rainstorm is gonna come and wash ABBA away away awayyyyyyyyyyyy..........
I was gasping for air and running down 2nd Ave and over to Delancey..........over to Lower East Side.......with Katz's pastrami fatty-ness cravings and walking out into the light of apartments with their original layout facade but with a $2500 a month burden mixed with a dive bar where you can get away get away.......god don't we wish for a good get away....the 3 dollar beer...or the 4 dollar whiskey.....and a throw your life a way bar tab.
Kenny Scharf is still shining strong on that mural wall on Houston but these aren't the yester-years they are the now and laters......buy now, sell later.......evict now, buy later.......drink now, regret later.......and I'm just swung in the mix. And even after all this, wherever I may roam....I still click my heels.....cause there's no place like home.
Only after the last dive bar is closed, the last deli goes up in flames, or the last of our old time buildings is demolished will we truly realize what we've done.Listed in: Dr. Jerbar, Love Letters to the City, The Bucket List
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Review from Franz K.
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Smog, rude people, high parking, horrible drivers, everybody has something to sell you . . . who can deal with this place.
I dunno, being from Florida, I love this place. People just trying to make it, everybody has got a hustle, I can't be mad at ya. Food is cheap, public transportation is cheap, so much to do, so iconic in so many ways. Clubs are open late, this place literally never sleeps.
Loses a star for being so damn cold in the winter but I have been to NY 3 times now and I have enjoyed it each time. Keep trucking on NYC. -
Review from Willis W.
Rhinebeck, NY
Updated - 4/6/2011
Read my first NYC review...ain't a DAMN THING CHANGED BABY!!!
Let me put it this way...again...in case something was in your eye. This IS the GREATEST CITY ON EARTH. You disagree? You're just a fool who won't leave the farm.
A city so nice, they named it twice.
How many cities have THREE anthems that are world known?
Maybe you don't like us...apparently Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel & Jay-Z think otherwise.
Hate the Yankees? Grow up and stop whining?
Hate the Mets? Go to Queens and start something...that bitch John Rocker is still scared.
Don't lie to yourself outsiders...you want to live, work or play here and if you're afraid, don't be, we got NY's finest & bravest to protect your ass.
Dead serious, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
NY, I'm in love with you and you're always on the crush list.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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6/2/2010
TRUE: I haven't lived here since 1989
TRUE: I've lived upstate longer than I've lived in NYC
TRUE: I… Read more »
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Review from Tony L.
2/28/2011
I'd visited a few times, but everything was going to change. I was still hungover from the New Year's bash, '05. It seems like such a long time ago. It took me a full year before I could walk the streets and not feel like a tourist. I got a job, fell in love, and got in the best shape of my life.
Some of the things I remember:
- Taking my niece to school every morning on the M16
- Taking my lunch break at Union Square
- Hungover and running along the East River on Saturday mornings
- Softball practice in Central Park
- Waking up at my friend's studio in NoLIta
- Karaoke in K-Town
- Talking with my pastor at Barnes and Noble
- Saying goodbye to Rob at Madison Square Park
- The kiss at 3rd Floor Cafe
- Meeting Jando for the first time outside Hayashi-Ya
- Late nights at AdAsia
- The staff at Subway on 17th Street
- The photo shoot in SoHo
- The night at Fat Black Pussycat
- Walking, everywhere
- Shopping for designer jeans
- Saying goodbye to my sister when I left New York
- Meeting Yelpers at Verlaine
There's probably a lot more worth writing, and I figure as time goes on, I might even add or subtract things off the list. It's hard to write about the best years of your life in a single review, just the same way no one review could adequately describe all of New York City.
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Review from Nydia C.
1/16/2011
Dear New York,
We were together for the first 18 years of my life until I broke up with you and left you for college in Arizona. I'd had enough of you and felt we needed to part ways. You weren't making me happy and I needed to experience something new. Our relationship had been pretty rocky and it was time to call it quits.
Four years later we saw each other for a bit while I lived in NJ and worked in your city for a couple of years. We were just friends and that seemed to work well. I really enjoyed the relationship we had then and I found myself pondering whether I had taken you for granted. You seemed so cool and everyone loved you, so it made me want you more.
When my relationship with NJ grew stale, I left for Florida thinking it may have the adventure I was looking for. When that fizzled after almost 3 years, I decided to come back to you. This time it was going to be better. We were going to make it work, or so I thought.
They say exes are exes for a reason and going back to them is never a good idea because ultimately whatever reason you broke up with them in the first place will inevitably resurface. New York, you are no exception. I enjoyed our reunion for the first few months, but being with you this past year and a half has made me realize that it's just not going to work out. Our relationship works best when we're just friends. We'll always be close and I'll come visit you from time to time, but now I must go. You're really a special city but you and I are just not meant to be.
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Review from Eugine Y.
8/29/2010
Everyone here likes to lay on the horn.
Sorry pal, but the car in front of you and the one ahead of him aren't going anywhere. Good luck with luck with your honking endeavour though.
This isn't Jersey, but hopefully, my hunt for J Woww will be a success. -
Review from Cassie G.
New York, NY
Updated - 9/8/2011
I love how this city kicks my @ss!
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8/31/2010
Still has my heart. Read more »
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Review from Tom K.
10/23/2010
Grimy. Filthy. Dirty. Crowded. Overrun with bed bugs, rats and pigeons. And that's just one block.
New York City, the metropolis and metropole of these United States is a place that can easily break one's will. So unlike the rest of the country, it attracts people from all over the country and world. Amidst the daily struggle you emerge stronger, floating atop a swirling maelstrom of cultures that contributes to the pulse of this City. It's the world made reachable by subway, diversity down a block, culture writ large and accessible to all.
It's New York City , once New Amsterdam, once the home of the Lenape locals, scene of triumph and tragedy, a place where commerce flourished, Washington slept and Henry Hudson mapped.
High population density but hardly a dense population, NYC is more than just the high rises of Manhattan. Its surprisingly verdant, almost suburban neighborhoods in those other, 'outer' boroughs, whose outward character contrasts with the makeup of Manhattan. Commuters, artists, civil servants, retirees, immigrants, old New Yorkers who never left their borough to see the "City", these boroughs have just as many stories to tell as the popular core of the Big Apple.
You can take the A train, make it here and anywhere, have this city as a state of mind and it is a hell of a town for millions of people locally and many more globally.
So this city dear to my head, heart (and stomach) is indeed at times an assault on the senses during the daily struggle. But those same senses are built back up with every bite, every new inch and old inch rediscovered of this swarming urban landscape that batters, challenges and ultimately nourishes the soul. -
Review from Zach S.
Brooklyn, NY
8/1/2011
*Written in Spring '10*
From getting off of work and walking on 125th street completely across town as the sun sets in front of me. Moseying through the crowds like an ambulance driver with a backpack and sunglasses. Crossing Lenox, Frederick Douglass and St. Nick's. The street is pulsing and alive. Something you cannot feel anywhere else. Throwing back vodka's, whiskeys and stellas at the Hudson River Cafe with friends. Conversation, laughter, phone calls, the night is about to be born. To stumbling down to Dinosaur BBQ to gorge on beef and ribs. Wildly driving down the west side highway(i am not driving) then across town to drop off a passenger. Then down the FDR where a flat tire leaves us in between the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges. Leaving the car on a random street as we wander around looking for the next watering hole. Finding a decent place where a shot and a beer are five dollars and the special takes us to blackout land and I wake up somewhere I don't know and walk home in the beautiful 65 degree sunshine over the Williamsburg Bridge. Get home to shower and bike down to Prospect Park in what is now 73 degree weather to meet up with friends and nap in the sunshine.
There's nothing like the first day of spring.
I've always loved this town but this past weekend just made the bond even stronger. -
Review from Philippe C.
Las Vegas, NV
7/29/2011
This place is the shit. That's all I have to say.
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Review from kristine r.
Astoria, NY
6/24/2009 ROTD 9/10/2009
Filipina-American New Yorker. Yes, that's who I am. Take away any of those cultural elements, and your picture of me will be incomplete. No, I wasn't born in New York, but like millions of others, I arrived a young immigrant. And I forged my identity growing up on the streets of New York.
Yes, I remember the crime-ridden days, when Times Square was an unsafe place to be at night. Yes, I've been mugged - a total of three times all before the age of 14. And yes, I was allowed to roam the streets during "out-lunch" at the ripe age of 12.
Not only that, but I was taken to Broadway shows, the ballet and the opera as a child. I learned how to take the subway and bus by myself as I commuted to middle school on the Upper West Side. I had a short stint as a prep school kid and was happy to escape. I went to one of the top public high schools in the country and made the closest friends I have to this day. I've met the most amazing, creative, inspiring, generous, gracious and wonderful people from all walks of life throughout my time here. I honestly can't imagine living anywhere else in the world right now.
I sometimes think about how different my life would have been if I had grown up in the Philippines, or even Louisville, KY, where we lived for a brief two years before relocating permanently to NYC. What kind of person would I be? Would I still be a writer? A curious traveler? An avid food enthusiast? I'm not so sure. But something drew my mom to this city, and despite her 6 year-old's tantrums, she picked us up and moved us up north. And I'm eternally grateful for that.
Yes, this city shaped me, inspired me and contributed to who I am today. It still does. There is simply no denying it. And I wouldn't have it any other way.Listed in: New York, New York! (It's a…
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Review from Keane L.
8/17/2007
"Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet."
In John Steinbeck's, "East of Eden," dreamer Adam Trask is blessedly burdened by his infatuation for Cathy Ames, a deceptive woman with an agenda other than his love. And whatever conviction he held in his dreaming, he held true despite her apathy. And he did great things in her name and attributed them to her, his muse, before she left him.
"Whatever Cathy may have been, she set off the glory in Adam. His spirit rose flying and released him from fear and bitterness and rancid memories. The glory lights up the world and changes it the way a star shell changes a battlefield."
And while we can attribute glory to external inspiration, it would be a shame not to attribute the glory to our own potential... that the inspiration only drew out what was inside of us all along. Because, if the inspiration should ever leave us, we can find comfort in knowing it was only a clever device to get us going.
"Then a breeze would move her bright hair, or she would raise her eyes, and Adam would swell out in his stomach with a pressure of ecstasy that was close kin to grief."
That New York City stands as the greatest city in the world is unquestionable (though one may still regard one's present home as more livable or loved). Historic. Modern. Tragic. Hopeful. A sort of glory of humanity, a monument for civilization's sins, successes and squanders. It inspires the best out of anyone with the willingness to look.
And whatever it is that inspires a man to come here, whether he finds it or not, he can be certain he'll leave with something satisfactory:
Conviction and glorious dreams of a better future, and newfound inspiration with himself.
"'A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome...
And I was not afraid anymore.'"Listed in: New York City!
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Review from Aimee O.
Manhattan, NY
1/13/2010
NYer: podunk, USA inhabitant:
wow! for $1500/mo, i get my own what?! you mean to tell me that
kitchen AND bathroom?! i'm so i'm ONLY getting 2 bedrooms, a
lucky! walk-in kitchen, a shower/bath
tub combo and stainless steel
appliances for $1/mo? what
about the washer/dryer?! damn,
why is life so hard?
wow! it's only 15 blocks away?! what?! it's two stores away?! let
let's walk! me get my car ready...
wow! there's only an hour-long HUH?! we have to wait 5 min?!
wait at (insert cool, trendy place WTF?! i guess chili's really IS
where all you'll do is drink hopping tonight...
your dinner)? let's do it!
oh, your shoes are only MJ? you OMG! club monaco is soooo
can use them to commute. couture!
so, all i did today was go for a run, so, all i did today was read this
do my laundry, get my pants tailored, book, churn butter and cook
do a little shopping, went to dinner some dinner. it was kinda
and grabbed a drink. a REALLY stressful!
relaxing day!
oh, i love NYC. i'm so lucky. oh, i hate my farm. i wonder
what it's like to live in NYC.
^ my sentiments exactly. damn, those big lights WILL inspire you. couldn't have said it better myself, jay z. give b a kiss for me now.
(on an unrelated note, happy 200 to me ... may the next 200 be much more fabulous than the first...) -
Review from Maritess Z.
Seattle, WA
1/7/2008
I want her bent over a chair or in the hotel jacuzzi or in the back of the taxi. I love to look at her in the morning, evening, I love her when we're alone and even when we're with millions of people.
I ignore the dog poop and her more annoying habit of thinking that she is the "center of the universe". she's smart, but actually provincial. She hasn't travelled the world and people from around the world simply come to her, just so they can tell their friends back home how tall she is in person and what she really smells like up close.
She feels entitled, thinks that altruism is fiction, she likes to file people by race and assign them living situations in separate neighborhoods. Every other day, I want to leave her. I've seen her grab toys from children's hands and break a homeless man's leg. I hate her for this, but it's my fault that I have never intervened.
I'm using her because is rich and knows everyone. I want her to be my sugar mamma just so I can afford long vacations to get the hell away from her.
But the minute I'm away from her, I have fantasies.
I want to grab her hair which is always shiny and coifed in the latest style and tie her wrists behind her back. I picture her screaming, I push her to her knees. I want her to beg. I want her to do anything I say, maybe pick up something with her teeth. Not everyone has this much influence over her and I have a secret pride in that. Sometimes, she lets me do that for about oh, say an hour at a time. She is fun, but sometimes she scares me.
Sometimes, we sit and look down from a precipice together holding hands under a sky lit with buildings and listen to the water.
Then she shoves me, hard, off the edge where we were sitting. I am falling, the ground comes close to my face, my body is pulled down, down, down by gravity, I think, this time, this is it, New York has finally killed me and i fall a little, and FAST. it's a familiar feeling then, as usual, she pulls the back of my shirt--hard-- drags me across the ground which leaves bruises, I see blood smeared from the scratches on my arm and she says "just kidding!" Then kisses me. My lips press against hers and I breathe in. I pretend that she will remember my name among the hundreds of other lovers she has before and after me. No one understands me like she does. She can do whatever she wants with me. The idea of never seeing her again makes me sick.
It's weird because she has split personalities. One minute, we're sharing a $500 bottle and chatting with the limousine driver and next, she makes me wait an hour for the G train then tells me that i should buy a bag of m & m's from her because she needs the money for her basketball team.
Sometimes it gets to be too much and I wonder if she has any drugs or alcohol, she has the best sources but really, I'd rather she just give me water or cook for me. I love it when she cooks for me.
I think I can make it work long term with her, even marry her, but I have to just take it one day at a time I guess.
This is totally unlike my longtime relationship with Chicago who I can come home to a really delicious home cooked meal, she's worldly, approachable, I could listen to her mind and her music every day for the rest of my life but after f***ing New York, I want more. -
Review from Alessa M.
8/22/2010
Oh New York how I love you because of the following:
-The entertainment I get on the subway (no I don't mean the musicians)
-Those days when I stepped in poop, ran into a freak rain storm and broke my heel but the smell of fresh coffee from Dean and Deluca or Starbucks washes all that away.
- Con Ed waking me up at 5am because they feel the need to start early.
- Your a melting pot...seriously I ran into a African American Irish man a few days ago. Amazing.
- Through dramatic moments you struggle a bit but rise up.
- You have a bunch of killer bees (taxis) roaming the streets searching or almost hitting their next fair.
Finally what I love most is that you without ever saying a word to me have taught me so much about my life, and how I want to live it...
Now if we can get rid of those damn bed bugs.......... -
Review from Archie G.
San Jose, CA
9/24/2009
"The true New Yorkers understand that people living anywhere else must be, in some sense, kidding." - Father Brian Finn
This quote always stood out when watching the film, Keeping the Faith, when I was a young, excessively thin, pimply faced brat in college. And after my recent trip to New York with La Novia, I now have a better understanding of the meaning behind it.
New York is an absolutely amazing city. Sure, it has plenty of tourism to offer an out of town (or country) visitor. But it also offers diversity, an stellar subway system, marvelous museums, theaters, multiple sports teams, rabid fans, and it can be argued that it is the financial capital of the world.
I was there for 4 days and I think I saw maybe 12-percent of the city had to offer. But from what I saw, I must say, "I heart NY."
So much so, I am returning in November.
In closing, New York is truly an amazing city. And a true litmus test of how great a city is is how much it changes your point of view or opinion of things in the world. Visiting New York City made me rethink how I look at California and its major cities, namely Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco.
Strangely enough, New York made me somewhat rethink my college experience. After my 4-day trip, part of me wished I had to gone to some university in New York.
Wow. No city has ever made me rethink my college decision and experience. Well, only for a few seconds. In the end, California has warmer weather.
And much, much hotter girls. -
Review from Anon Y.
New York, NY
1/2/2011
Aint what it used to be.
Despite the misunderstood status quo, NYC is not the city it was in the 50s, an emerging metropolis with avante garde design, architecture, and unparalleled development. The city is still riding the former shell of a wave of public investment by the Rockefellers.
When was the last time you heard of a NEW Public Building?
MSG is in serious need of renovation or relocation. The Port Authority is last place anyone wants to be.
The Subway! Oh no the subway!! It's a quality of life issue! Its terrible in the summer, service problems all year round and still its filthier everyday. Why not invite more artists to assist in the repairing of stations. There shouldn't be any stations not in great condition. If the subway was a nicer place, everyone would be happier.
When you head to a city pool to swim or city gym you are immediately disappointed. The state of decay that NYC owned buildings and facilities are in shameful. Is that the best NYC can do? Seriously... I thought it was the best city in the world?
These buildings are decaying and apartments gets smaller and smaller. People expect less than they used to and pay more for it.
Emissions... c'mon emissions, where are the incentives to upgrade buildings? Recycling? Growing food? Let's not wait till 2030 (vision this city needs)
As a New Yorker, I pride myself on the inability to impress easily. NYC you've got your work cut out for you. -
Review from Anya S.
8/3/2010
I love you.
Be mine.
Please love me back!!!!
P.S. One day I will make you mine. (I just need to make lots of $$$ and then we can be together forever) -
Review from Caroline A.
Chicago, IL
11/29/2007
New York City is my favorite US city next to Chicago. Here's why:
+ Variety and quality of visual and performing arts.
+ Fashion and style mecca of the country.
+ Food - huge mix of ethnic cuisine, five star restaurants and cheap and good eats. Tons of bakeries and yumminess all over.
+ Nightlife - You can never run out of things to do.
+ Parks all over the city.
+ People - diverse and from all over the place.
+ People - I've met so many wonderful, nice, hysterically funny and awesome friends.
+ People - yummy man and women candy all over... raaawwrrrr sheckshi. (I can look!)
+ Close to the mountains and the ocean for a getaway.
+ My beau is here. -
Review from Sus.annah B.
San Francisco, CA
8/4/2009
I was going to attempt to write something epic and/or witty for this, but ultimately I realized this review would never be written if I tried going that route.
New York City is every bit as awesome as everybody says it is and then some. The transportation system of any other city in the US is nothing compared to here - this includes the various odors of said system, but any well-used and well-loved system should smell like pee and electricity anyway. People are refreshingly blunt and honest - if anyone considers this "rude," a look in the mirror may be in order. You can find whatever the hell you want at any time of the day, probably within a few blocks of where you happen to be standing, including socks for those impromptu thunderstorms.
I grew up in California while listening to my mom tell stories of growing up in Brooklyn, and I consider myself a Californian, even though I was born in Manhattan. I have no plans to drop everything and move to New York. However, I get why people do, and I'm already planning my next trip back next year.
Oh, and the pizza's not bad either.
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#200Listed in: New York City
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Review from James E.
3/22/2008
Now I can forgive a lot of things, but this kindler, gentler New York City is not of them. What the hell happened to New York City and when did it become all right for people to bring their LA lifestyles with them after moving here? The greatest city in world that's known for being edgy is quickly becoming dull. Everyone and their mother is sending text messages as they walk. Prams are taking over the West Village. Bars in the LES have free WiFi. THERE'S A FREAKIN' SUPERCUTS IN ST MARK'S. This is New York Fucking City, where consumption is celebrated and progressive liberal thinking is eschewed. Now everyone wants to shop at Home Depot? Did I miss something?
What this city needs is a full-scale riot: bring back the hookers, trannies and working class! And would it kill anyone to support local business? Christ, people, it's not as if you can't shop at American Apparel in other cities or countries.
If you want to make a difference in this city, the next person you see on a Blackberry or sending text messages should be pushed into oncoming traffic. -
Review from Lorrie M.
5/18/2009
I love new york? This is actually very true. New York is one of the first cities that I truly, fantastically, phenomenonally fell in love with at first sight. I went during Christmas and it has to be the best time to visit New York.
All of the wonderful decorations and fantastic Christmas spirit on top of the delicious hole in the walls to gorgeous dining in the city, its truly a magical experience. It's shocking that I would love New York but hate San Francisco since they possess some of the same personalities and charms ... but I absolutely adore New York and cannot wait to return :) **sigh** -
Review from Kate K.
Chicago, IL
6/4/2008
Had a great time on my vacation to this lovely city... I have to say, though, as much as I like visiting the Big Apple, I could NEVER NEVER live there.
I'm a SF girl, through and through.
http://www.flickr.com/...
Check my vaycay picties! -
Review from Jen D.
2/11/2008
As an outsider, you always made me feel afraid... Such a big place... Such a huge population... So much competition... So expensive... The streets are frantic at times and at other times barren...
I never thought I'd leave... I thought I'd fall in love here... Raise my children here... Die here... But things have changed and it's time for me to leave you...
but the life lesson I learned while living here is invaluable... i've made wonderful friends... experienced things that would have never been possible if I hadn't have gotten over the fear of moving here... landed a great job that has proven to have endless opportunities within the firm... loved.. lost... lived...
Thank you New York City for being my home for the past three years... You'll always hold a special place in my heart... -
Review from Maria M.
Woodside, NY
12/4/2007
I have a love/hate relationship with this city. I think everyone here does, at least a little bit. C'mon, it's healthy. It's part of being a New Yorker, or at least a transplant who has been here for 13 years, and let's count: how many real New Yorkers are there anymore (and no we are not counting L. I. ers who made trips into the city every Christmas to see the Rockettes)? Almost all of us are from somewhere else, reppin some other city or some other country. Some of us are from NYC and never want to live anywhere else. And therein lies the beauty of the city.
I hate getting up and facing the subway first thing. I hate paying top dollar with little return on my investment. I hate the crowds.
There is no end to the list of things I love. I discover new things every day. Hell, I love the fact that there's a 24 hour deli across the street from me. Now that doesn't happen in many other places. -
Review from Syretta H.
Waukegan, IL
6/30/2007
I think I might be the only person who did not give NY at least 4 or 5 stars, but I hated it there. I have to go back in two weeks and I am SO not looking forward to the next visit. I guess I'm just slow or something cause it's way too fast, it's grimy as all get out and there is just way too much going on at once for me.
The locals love it, feel safe, love the hustle and bustle...I say hey, if you love it, then it's the place for you...but for me? Three days was long enough and I was ready to GO HOME..... -
Review from Gee P.
Sunnyside, NY
5/4/2007
Yeah... Am I gonna have to be the first person to not give this place 5 stars? Hmmm, must be the fact that I didn't move here. Born and raised new yorker, my dream growing up was to be able to move up and out of this place. Thank the lord for Guilliani, I haven't gotten jumped since he started regulating NYC. Probably the only reason I'm still living in this damn town. Hate all you want.
Great restaurants though huh? -
Review from Linda V.
Austin, TX
12/1/2009
I'm sorry, but I hate you. I know I'm in the minority, but I have to be honest.
I'm giving you an extra star for all the good food I've had, even though it's also responsible for the 15 pounds my husband and I both gained since moving here.
La ciudad es un pinche infierno, y me largo a la chingada de aquí. Hasta nunca, cabrones. -
Review from kate r.
San Francisco, CA
10/24/2006
Could this actually be the Yelp link that rates NYC?
Some think its too fast paced, some think the locals are rude, some think the city is grimey...
Not me, I love it. -
Review from Heru M.
Elmhurst, NY
10/21/2009
Top Ten reasons you love the City of New York
10 You dial 311 so you can get the 411 on what's going on in the 212.
09 You likely have the schedule of alternate street parking rules above your loved ones hand-made drawings plastered on the fridge.
08 You claim that bagels, pizza, cheesecake and clam chowder are the best and found on your block where you work/live.
07 You first cruise was on the Staten Island Ferry.
06 You never visited the Statue of Liberty... even when your out-of-town friends urge you to come. You say, "What? I've got a Mad Men marathon to watch!"
05 You are on a first-name basis with the halal, hotdog, kettle peanuts vendors as well as the EMT, pharmacist, nurse at the emergency.ward.
04 You give wrong directions to tourists more than native NY'rs because, you know, you're not gonna get shanked.
03 You get a letter for jury duty and you throw it away. What?!? There's eight millllllliion people here.
02 You get yelled at like: "Speak English" or "Go back where you came from!" and you reply, "I was born here."
01 and the number one reason you love NY: "If a billionaire can be mayor, why can't I?"
