I did the things, but uh I did a lot of other things too. Weiner, 2016
He never backed down from anybody. ibid. public comment
I have photographs. I don’t know what photographs are out there in the world about me. ibid. Weiner
Newly revealed messages are by far the most explicit ones we’ve seen. ibid. press
That blind spot was a pretty big one. ibid. Weiner
An unfavourability record of 80%. ibid. news
My sex life ain’t what it used to be. ibid. Weiner in taxi
Anthony Weiner with 4.93% of the vote in the democratic primary for mayor. ibid.
Are you going to bark all day, you little dog you, or are you going to bite? The Wolfpack, brothers re-enact Reservoir Dogs in flat, Sundance 2015
I write down the lines of the entire film, what each character says. ibid.
If I didn’t have movies, life would be pretty boring, and there wouldn’t be any point to go on. ibid.
We were kind of shut off, always living in this apartment in New York, lower east side Manhattan. ibid.
We got like 5,000 movies … There’s another world out there … The movies helped us create our own kind of world. ibid.
Our dad was the only one who had the keys to the front door. ibid.
We decided to go as a group together alone for the first time. ibid.
There were probably more rules for me than there were for them. ibid. mother
Swat teams … put us against the wall and handcuffed every member of our family. They had a search warrant. For possession of weapons. ibid. brother
I just can’t talk to him [father] any more. ibid. son re father
Me in New York? I own that city. The Office s2e16: Valentine’s Day, NBC 2006
This is the room of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. It looks today much as it did in the 1920s. It is a room for talk and laughter but it is missing its star players, ten or so men and women made their mark as humorous journalists and playwrights in a single decade after World War I … They came to be known as the Algonquin Round Table. The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit & Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, 1987
It was that unique moment of confidence. ibid.
It was the last time in America when the written word was paramount. ibid.
85 theatres thrived in Times Square alone. ibid.
Dorothy Parker became the most quoted woman in New York. ibid.
People came to stare at them at lunch. ibid.
Groucho Marx never sat at the Round Table. ibid
New York 1987: ‘You’re black and you’re male and you’re gay: you’re going to have a hard fucking time.’ Paris is Burning, 1990, father’s advice
Men gather together under one roof and decide to have a competition amongst themselves: Balls. I went to a ball, I got a trophy and now everybody wants to know. This movie is about the Ball Circuit. ibid.
‘You like the adulation, the applause … it’s an addictive high.’ ibid.
New York City, 1982: They call themselves writers because that’s what they do: they write their names among other things everywhere. Names they’ve been given or have chosen themselves. Most of all they write in and on subway trains which carry their names from one end of the city to the other. It’s called bombing … Graffiti writing in New York is a vocation … to some it’s art. Style Wars, 1983
In the 1970s New York graffiti, rapping and breaking became the prime expression of a new young people’s subculture called Hip Hop. Graffiti is the written word. ibid.
‘You’re not Banksy, bro; this is not your balloon.’ Banksy Does New York ***** rozzer, Sky Arts 2017
On October 1st 2013 the street artist known as Banksy announced an artist’s residency in New York City. Banksy took over the city streets, exhibiting one unique work a day for the course of the month. ibid. caption
‘Banksy has never let anyone see his face.’ ibid. news
The integration of the street and social media. ibid.
In 2013, the building owners announced 5 Pointz would be sold and developed into luxury condos. The local graffiti and arts community began a legal battle to try and save 5 Pointz. ibid.
Starting on day 11, Banksy’s mobile installation Sirens of the Lambs was driven around the city, parking at New York’s landmark meat stores. ibid.
Each piece that was originally purchased for $60 is now valued at approximately $250,000. ibid.
All proceeds from the auction of The Banality of the Banality of Evil went to the Housing Works organization. ibid.
By 1970 New York City alone will have over 200,000 heroin addicts. Secret War on Drugs, History 2017
Cities have the capacity of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, Jane Jacobs, author The Death and Life of Great American Cities, BBC 2017
In opposition to the homogenising clarity of [Robert] Moses was Jane Jacobs. ibid. expert
We didn’t understand how high the price was. ibid. expert
I just loved coming to New York. It was inexhaustible. Just to walk around its streets and wonder at it. So many streets different. So many neighbourhoods different. So much going on. ibid. Jane Jacobs
Marvels of dullness and regimentation … This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities. ibid. Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
It’s all a great network in the city. ibid.
Many different kinds of enterprises, many different kinds of people, mutually supporting and supplementing each other. ibid.
A Friday morning in New York. Thousands of people are downtown. But this is a day unlike any other. Because the hunt for the world’s most wanted man begins now. Terrorists attack the World Trade Centre. But this is not 9/11. It’s eight years earlier. A 1,500 truck bomb rips a 100 foot hole through 4 levels of World Trade Centre Tower I. CIA Declassified s1e3: The Real Zero Dark Thirty, 2014
In 1863 as our nation struggles through a third year of Civil War, New York erupts in civil insurrection. The deadliest riots in American history. As an angry mob faces police and federal troops, blood flows in the streets and the city teeters on the brink of revolution. The turmoil is fuelled by fiery politics and racial tension. In Search of History s1e8: The Civil War Draft Riots, History 1996
Violent protest against conscription throws New York City into chaos. ibid.
The streets of New York are often battlefields. ibid.
The problem is the city’s dependence on trade with the southern states. ibid.
For the first time the federal government will draft men into the army. It’s a controversial measure. ibid.
A one square-mile section of New York City named the Five Pointz can be called the birthplace of the American gangster. In Search of History s2e17: The Five Points Gang
The 1840s: These tenements and slums were home to what became known as the Five Pointz Gang. ibid.
‘Ruins loom upon the eye. Hideous tenements which take their name from robbery and murder. All that is loathsome, droopy and decayed is here.’ ibid. Dickens
The Plug-Uglies wore stovepipe plug hats … The Dead Rabbit gang rallied around a rabbit impaled on a stake. ibid.
What began as a gang brawl turned into a war … More than 100 people died. ibid.
These social affairs were dubbed rackets by the gangs. ibid.
The New York police department is the nation’s largest police force with 36,000 uniformed officers. Quotas for arrests and summonses have been banned in New York since 2010. Crime + Punishment, 2018, captions
New York 2014: ‘Everybody around you is moving a lot faster than you.’ ibid. Lieutenant Hati to Sandy Gonzalez
‘Morale of cops is very low.’ ibid. rozzer