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.
I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.
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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...
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...
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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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Art Quotes
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
I'd spent my first 12 years in New York in an East Village walk-up. The upstairs neighbor was the cowboy from the Village People.
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Other quotes weigh New York's claustrophobia against the East Village's camaraderie, or compare it to scenes in other cities that never quite replicate its identity. For related city and culture reflections, browse our Back quotes and Beauty quotes collections.
