Quotes About Urban

In Paris, the people go in the Metro, they move, they go to their offices, 8 a.m. in the morning - it's like remote control.

I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time.

The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.

Increases in stabilized rents impact rent stabilized tenants directly, but they also affect the affordability of all New Yorkers' rents.

All New Yorkers have the right to decent housing, regardless of income and rent.

I think the thing about New York City real estate is that you kind of just take what you can get when you're renting.

When you're from Brooklyn, you've got to rep, and you've got to perform, like it's your last fight on earth.

We were just expressing stuff that happens in the ghetto, just being like reporters.

The album 'Hoodie SZN' is about the result of where I come from: it gave me this black heart. And the black heart represents depression.

I think New York City most represents what it is that America in general aspires to. It's big; it's dense. I've known this city from all of its social arcs. The best that's in America is yet to come. The worst that's in America is yet to come.

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

I've always been adventurous - my wife calls me 'the Hip Hop Crocodile Hunter' - if you can survive in the hood, you can survive anywhere.

People's hustle in the Bronx is real.

I would say that my favorite thing about New York is the hustle and bustle but that's also a drawback at times, but it's amazing and I love it.

Children don't have anywhere to go except cinema halls, malls and restaurants. All three aren't ideal places for kids to grow up in.

New York is flat - it's ideal for bicycling.

When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future?

My New York, the one I identify with as a kid, has greatly changed. And I'm sure the people who were adults when I was a kid probably felt the same way.

It is great filming in London. It's difficult, but it looks good. It has its own identity.

If I could be living anywhere now, it would be in New York. My heart is in that city.

If I could live anywhere else in the world, I would probably want a place back in New York.

'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.