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Monday 2nd of March 2026

Assholes say It's a pain in the ass. …  There's like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer. Elon Musk, on riding the New York City subway © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bad news If you want to make it in New York City in the TV business, you're going to have to fuck me, and you're going to do that with anyone I tell you to. citation Roger Ailes, to a television producer who he interviewed in 1975 and was quoted in the press in 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bullshit The XI. One square block. Two unprecedented icons stretch skyward. Nestled between the Hudson River and the High Line in the heart of New York City. Parallels are drawn — from the yin & yang duality of the sister residences to the unique balance between convention and avant garde. Timeless travertine and dynamic technology. At these crossroads, where a storied New York neighborhood meets trails yet ot be blazed, Bjarke Ingels' feat of engineering connects with an international paragon of the world's most visionary minds. Advertisement for a NYC apartment building, New York Times, October 7, 2018 © 2015 Kwiple.com
By the numbers 2014 NEW YORK CITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING LOTTERIES 10 lotteries citywide 698 units, 486,000 applicants 0.1436% winners Upper West Side “poor door” building 55 units, 88,000 applicants 0.0625% winners 2014 ELITE COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE RATES Stanford - 5.1% Harvard - 5.9% Yale - 6.3% Princeton - 7.4% © 2015 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Amount that North Korea owes New York City in parking tickets: $152,505 That Egypt owes: $1,989,554   Harper's Index, December 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Average acceptance rate at New York City public high schools with test-based admission: 2.7 At Ivy League universities: 8.0 Harper's Index, June 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Average number of hours that a driver in Los Angeles spends sitting in traffic each year: 104 That a driver in New York City spends looking for a parking spot: 107 Harper's Index, October 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of statues in New York City's Central Park that depict women: 19 Percentage of those statues that depict fictional women: 100 Harper's Index, January 2017 © 2016 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus OUTSIDE WITH NO MASK? FUGGEDABOUTIT! Digital highway signs throughout New York City during the pandemic © 2020 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus You are your safest sex partner. Masturbation will not spread COVID-19, especially if you wash your hands (and any sex toys) with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before and after sex. New York City Health Department, memorandum to residents, 3.27.20  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Food Satisfy your craving for zero human contact. — — — — — Nothing ruins a good meal like other New Yorkers. Slogans for Seamless, a food delivery service promoting and profiting from social isolation in hip neighborhoods like Williamsburg © 2016 Kwiple.com
Income inequality While wages have stagnated in the rest of the economy, the average New York banker's bonus rose to $164,530 in 2013. That's on top of an average base salary of around $200,000. Wall Street bankers now make more than five times the average New York City salary, compared with less than two times the average in 1981. Salvatore Babones, Sixteen for '16 © 2016 Kwiple.com
New York City Only 12% of the roughly 1.1 million employee-based and nonemployer businesses in New York City received a PPP loan, according to the report set to be released Wednesday. By comparison, more than 20% of businesses in states that were less economically affected by the pandemic – like North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska – got federal aid, the report says, based on roughly three months of federal data on the program through June 30. Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Problem solving “See this?” he says. “These are front-stabbing knives. You only use these in New York. In Washington you use a shiv, or mechanisms in the press, back-stabbing, subterfuge, opposition research . . . Not in New York. We come at you right from the front.” Anthony Scaramucci, quoted in Edward Luce's interview with Scaramucci at a restaurant in New York © 2017 Kwiple.com
Public discourse There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, “M-Fer, I want more iced tea.” You know, I mean, everybody was — it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all. Bill O'Reilly, recounting his visit to Sylvia's, a famous restaurant in Harlem  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say I hope he takes his kids with him. Manhattanite responding to the news that Donald Trump changed his official residence from Manhattan to Palm Beach, Florida, quoted in Financial Times, Nov. 2/3, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Race After four years in the US, on both coasts, the sharpest relief since coming home [to Britain] has been the chance to have sustained conversations that do not in some way come back to identity. This is the difference between diversity and cosmopolitanism. The first is a physical fact. The second is an attitude towards it: a sort of insouciance. New York is diverse. London, where people one generation removed from Ireland or Italy won’t think to mention it, is cosmopolitan. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Race Why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better? The garbage wasn't picked up every motherfuckin' day when I was living in 165 Washington Park. The police weren't around. When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o'clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something. Spike Lee © 2017 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say For 30 years, Mr. Nadler has represented Manhattan's West Side, which a friend of mine once likened to living in East Germany. Daniel Henninger, deputy editorial page director of The Wall Street Journal and Fox News contributer, on Jerry Nadler's latest primary election win, Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump. Boris Johnson, 2015 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I don't like America enough to want to live anywhere else except Manhattan. And what I like about Manhattan is that it's full of foreigners. The America I live in  is the America of the cities. The rest is just drive-through. Susan Sontag © 2017 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I do believe that the people who are engaging in selective prosecution, vindictive prosecution, using it, doing it, when I say it's rigged, they go into a place where they know the fight is unfair. It’s as bad as it was in Alabama in 1950 — if a person happened to be Black — in order to get justice. And that’s what they did in New York. So it was fundamentally rigged. Dan Bishop, GOP nominee for AG in NC, complaining that only Republicans have been  charged with and convicted of covering up payments to a porn star to win an election, and implying that New Yorkers in 2024 don't allow whites on juries and lynch them in the wsy white Alabamans did to blacks in the 1950s  © 2024 Kwiple.com
 
Wretched excess A penthouse at the Manhattan megatower 432 Park Avenue is slashing its price by more than 20% to $139 million, according to the listing agents. … [Fawaz] Al Hokair bought the Billionaires' Row penthouse in 2016 for $87.66 million, one of the highest prices ever paid for a New York apartment, records show. The unit has never been lived in; the seller hasn't spent the night there once, [Tai] Alexander [one of the listing agents] said. A representative for Al Hokair declined to comment. Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2023 © 2023Kwiple.com