Alas, New York City cannot talk, so here's what people have to say about New York City.

"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story." - Agatha Christie

"New York City, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities..." - John Gunther

"It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way..." - John Steinbeck

"Skyscraper national park." - Kurt Vonnegut

"There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die." - Walt Whitman

"At night… the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth." - Francis Trollope

"It'll be a great place if they ever finish it." - O. Henry

"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless." - Simone De Beauvoir

"I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York…" - Oriana Fallaci

"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe." - Le Corbusier

"New York is nothing like Paris; it is nothing like London; and it is not Spokane multiplied by sixty, or Detroit multiplied by four. It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression." - E.B. White

"Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream." - Helen Keller