This great city has fed my imagination-it has allowed me to dream.

"Anyway, I don't want to live in New York. I want some place more like where we used to live in New Jersey I don't like living here. There aren't any trees."

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger.

Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey taxi." Two is "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdales?" And three is "Don't worry, it's only a flesh wound."

Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address.

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.