The largest and most diverse city in America. With a population over 8 million, and a reputation for
blunt honesty, graft and aggression, New York City is actually one of America's friendliest places, with a proud citizen
base committed to cooperation. An excellent example is September 11th, 2001, when New Yorkers of all backgrounds automatically pulled together to rescue the injured, rebuild infrastructure, and provide America backbone to withstand the event.
New York City is the most talked-about, thought-about, and most-written and sung about city in the
world. New songs, movies, television programs and plays are created about it daily. Moving to, surviving, then living well in New York City is nearly universally seen as "having arrived".
New Yorkers are brash, impulsive, good-natured and approachable. They like meeting
people and are not shy about making new friends. Friendships can be struck up in public (i.e. on line for a bus, or at a bank) when two or more
unrelated New Yorkers notice
something unusual and make a (usually sarcastic) comment to
one another.
New York City: Frank Sinatra with a skyline.
Person 1: New York, New York
A hell of a town
The Bronx is up and the Battery's down
The
people ride in a hole in the ground
New York, New York...
It's a hell of a town!
Person 2: The example should include the
words "New York City". You forgot "city".
Person 1: Lenny didn't use city in that song.
Person 2: Yeah, but he didn't write the lyrics either.
Person 1: Stop arguing with me on the
train, you must be from New York City or something.
