Quotes About New Yorkers

Yes, but don't you find the endorsements intriguing?" Emma said. "Why would a bunch of big-shot New Yorkers support her? She was just a girl from Queens, had no political connections of her own, and certainly these people would have known who her father was.

When New Yorkers went to the polls a few weeks later, election officials came across the names of two unexpected write-in candidates for state treasurer: John D. Rockefeller and Charles Ponzi.

In 1955, there were 150,000 New Yorkers on welfare; in 1995, there were 1.3 million.