- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
East Side Quotes
On Manhattan's East Side, its art and its contrasts.
This page gathers quotes referencing the East Side of Manhattan, from a company headquartered there to a reflection on leaving architecture for a life spent obsessing over Upper East Side bathroom details. Another quote traces the Tiffany lamp's origins to a link between immigrant settlement houses downtown and wealthy industrialist patrons uptown. See more city history in our City quotes collection.
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- Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.
- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which was downtown, in the Lower East Side - to Midtown, where the theaters are. So I got to know New York, Midtown and south.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.
- Gangster
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- Nov 07, 2020