NEW YORK CITY

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1. New York, the hussy, was taken in sin again!—THOMAS BEER, The Mauve Decade
   

2. The Sidewalks of New York.—BLAKE & LAWLOR, Song
   

3. Give my regards to Broadway.—GEORGE M. COHAN, Song
   

4. I think any man who can afford a hall bedroom and a gas stove in New York City is better off than he would be as the owner of i6o acres on the prairie or in one of those small so-called cities.—RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
   

5. New York is a sucked orange.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

6. In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.—O. HENRY, The Voice of the City
   

7. What else can you expect from a town that's shut Of from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?—O'HENRY, The Gentle Grafter
   

8. Well, little old Noisyville-on­the-Subway is good enough for me.—O'HENRY, Strictly Business
   

9. The renowned and ancient city of Gotham.—WASHINGTON IRVING, Salmagundi
   

10. Manhattan's a hell where culture rarely grew;
    But it lets two lives do all they care to do.—ALFRED KREYMBORG, Two Lives and Six Million
    

11. City of hurried and sparkling waters! city of spires and masts!
    City nested in bays! my city!—WALT WHITMAN, Mannahatta
    

12. A little strip of an island with a row of well-fed folks up and down the middle, and a lot of hungry folks on each side.—HARRY LEON WILSON, The Spenders