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- Nov 07, 2020
East Village Quotes
Raw memories from one of New York's most storied neighborhoods.
The East Village comes through here as a place people genuinely grew up in, from childhood skateboarding memories to a first tattoo picked up in a neighborhood parlor. It shares creative energy with our Art quotes page.
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- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at least feels full of camaraderie and youth - or full of camaraderie and youth in an East Village that is as full of Chase banks and Starbucks as the Upper West Side, or anywhere else in Manhattan.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a nice walk. Then I'd go down to the East Village and stroll around. After that, maybe I'd go check out a museum or catch an indie film at the Angelika.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020