130+ Best New York Quotes and New York Instagram Captions

Best New York Quotes

“A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it’s a beautiful catastrophe.” – Le Corbusier

“I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.” – Ayn Rand

“This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.” – Michael Bloomberg

“Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark.” – O. Henry

“Things always change and New York teaches you that.” – Richard Hell

“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” – Nora Ephron

“People go to LA to “find themselves”, they come to New York to become someone new.” – Lindsey Kelk

“A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else.”

“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.” – Dorothy Parker

“If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. And I can’t have nobody talking nonsense about my boyfriend.” – Carrie Bradshaw

Unique New York captions for Instagram

“NYC is always a good idea.”

“You’re going to make it happen. This is New York.”

“New York state of mind.”

“Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York.”

“New York is a 24-hour city. It never stops.”

“New York City is where your wildest dreams come true.”

“Keep calm and go to New York.”

“I’m having an affair with New York.”

“My life didn’t begin until I got to New York.”

“New York is the city that other cities can only dream of being.”

More New York Instagram captions

“Dear New York, I’ll never get over you.”

“New York. City of dreams.”

“People never forget two things: their first love and their first day in New York City.”

“Take me to New York.”

“Either you love New York or you are wrong.”

“Hello, New York. You’re looking gorgeous today.”

“I think I was made to live in New York.”

“New York is always in my mind.”

“I fell in love, his name is New York.”

“New York. it puts a spell on you.”

Best New York Puns

The views from the Empire States couldn’t be any NYCer.

A trip to New York takes quite a bit of dough.

What a brew-tiful day!

Central Park always perks me up.

In winter, NYC is the city of tights.

More like Empire Great Building, am I right?

Winter in NYC is snow joke.

Times Square heals all wounds.

In New York, the vegan puns are so corny.

Stop Yankee-ng my chain.

More quirky New York City Puns

In winter, New York makes a great frost impression.

First Time-rs Square.

A trip to NYC can be very taxi-ng on your wallet.

Spill the Liber-tea.

We’re all out of Stock.

After sightseeing all day, I’m Central Park-ing myself down for the rest of the night.

Staten Island floats my boat.

Queens for a day.

Soho-w are you doin’?

Central Park perks me up.

Funny quotes about New York

“When I first moved to New York, I bought Vogue instead of dinner. I just felt it fed me more.” – Carrie Bradshaw

“When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.” – Neil Simon

“New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.” – Russell Baker

“It’s like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up. There’s nothing you can do.” – Liz Lemon

“If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.” – Ellen R. Shapiro

“New York City is a tourist trap I don’t mind being in.” – Unknown

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike

“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish.” – Awkafina

“Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.” – James Baldwin

Short quotes about New York City

“I love New York.” – Hillary Clinton

“I’m in a New York state of mind.” – Billy Joel

“Skyscraper National Park” – Kurt Vonnegut

“New York is not a city. It’s a world.” – Iman

“New York to me means the world.” – Donna Karan

“Welcome to New York. It’s been waiting for you.” – Taylor Swift

“This isn’t a fairytale. It’s New York City.” – Alex Flinn

“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” – Georgia O’Keefe

“Welcome to New York. It’s been waiting for you.” – Taylor Swift

“Here we are Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity.” – Harry, Home Alone 2

Inspirational quotes about New York

“When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” – Ryan Adams

“I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Truman Capote

“More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm.” – Marilyn J. Appleberg

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to its as much as five minutes as in five years.” – Tom Wolfe

“If you’re greedy for life, that’s what New York is all about. If you’re trying to get as much as you can every day, this city is the place to be.” – Pam Nelson

“I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.” – Milos Forman

“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.” – Twain

“My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.” – Bill Murray

Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window – no, I don’t feel how small I am – but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.” – Ayn Rand

Quotes about life in New York

“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.” – Rick Riordan

“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.” – John Lennon

“I love New York City…you’re never alone but you’re always on your own.” – Blair Waldorf

“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” – Elbert Hubbard

“When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.” – Jimmy Breslin

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.” – Pearl S. Buck

“But there is one thing about it – once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.” – John Steinbeck

“I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City.” – Spalding Gray

“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” – Angela Carter

“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” – Agatha Christie

“One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.” – Miuccia Prada

Travel quotes about New York

“It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.” – Timothy F. Cahill

“I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork.” – Madonna

“The diversity, the food, the culture, the constant change–New York City is truly one of the most inspiring places on the planet.” – XXMK

“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” – Fran Lebowitz

“New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the centre of the world, the lion’s den.” – Zubin Mehta

“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.” – Peter Shaffer

“New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something.” – Lindsey Kelk

“The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes.” – Pete Hamill

“I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, “There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.” – Robert De Niro

Quotes about New Yorkers

“New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.” – Henry Ford

“Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.” – Dorothy Parker

“New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: oh, that’s who I am.” – Unknown

“You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” – Edward Rutherfurd

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike

“And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.” – Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

“If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.” – Ellen R. Shapiro

“I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.” – Lady Gaga

“The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich.” – Sophie Frances Ha

“Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” – Johnny Carson

More quotes about New York City

“Sometimes, from beyond the skyscrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.” – Albert Camus

“It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.” – Susan Ertz

“I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never loves anyone quite that way again.” – Joan Didion

“The next morning, I went back to the open vantage from which we had watched the tower so dreadfully slip from sight. The fresh sun shone on the eastward façades, a few boats tentatively moved in the river, the ruins were still sending out smoke, but New York looked glorious.” – John Updike

“New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.” – Harry Hershfield

“The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder.” – Alex Baze

“Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.” – Dorothy Parker

“A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.” – Lady Gaga

“You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” – Edward Rutherfurd

“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.” – Peter Cameron

“Life in New York was like being in a giant bookstore: all these trillions of paths and possibilities drawing dreamers into the city’s beating heart, saying, I make no promises but I offer many doors.” – Emily Henry

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