I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.
New York is just as provincial as anyone else.
My main residence is Baltimore. I have an apartment in New York, one in San Francisco, and I live in a rental in Provincetown in the summer.
I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.
I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.
If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.
I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
I've been a skier since I was 2 or 3, skiing with my dad in northern New York and Vermont.
My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
I'm not a New York snob.
Sondheim is New York.
I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
I was working as a stockbroker in New York and had the seemingly perfect life.
When I was 7, we moved to New York because my dad's job was transferred.
I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
I actually moved to upstate New York to the country.