3 CommentsNot to sound like an Instagram caption, but “~take me back~”.
Do you find yourself longing for New York? You’re not alone. Bwog Staff has compiled a list of our favorite songs, films, TV shows, and musicals that are in and about New York.
Songs:
“New York” by St. Vincent
“Visions of Johanna” by Bob Dylan
“Empire State of Mind” by JAY-Z
“Theme from New York New York” by Frank Sinatra
“Lit Up” by The National
“New York Minute” by Don Henley
“New York” by Ed Sheeran
“Welcome to New York” by Taylor Swift
“No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn” by The Beastie Boys
“Chelsea Morning” by Joni Mitchell
“Upper West Side” by King Princess
“Lemonworld ”by The National
“Piazza, New York Catcher” by Belle and Sebastian
“New York City Cops” by The Strokes
“Train Under Water” by Bright Eyes
“The Boxer” by Simon and Garfunkel
“Manhattan” by Ella Fitzgerald
“2.25” by MICHELLE
“The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side” by The Magnetic Fields
“NYC” by Interpol
“Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel
“Paris Nights / New York Mornings” by Corinne Bailey Rae
“Downtown Train” by Tom Waits
“Lost in the City” by Lola Bates
“Dirty Blvd.” by Lou Reed
“Positively 4th St.” by Bob Dylan
“So Far Around the Bend” by The National
“New York Soul – Pt. ii” by Jon Bellion
TV Shows:
30 Rock
Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23
Seinfeld
Friends
Saturday Night Live
Gossip Girl
Wizards of Waverly Place
How I Met Your Mother
Sex and the City
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Broad City
Mad Men
Brooklyn 99
Master of None
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Films:
The Apartment
The Devil Wears Prada
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Night at the Museum
Home Alone 2
Big
Rear Window
Someone Great
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Taxi Driver
After Hours
Shame
Frances Ha
Cruel Intentions
Ghostbusters (1984 by2016)
Enchanted
Paris is Burning
When Harry Met Sally
Uncut Gems
American Psycho
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Late Night
Books:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Open City by Teju Cole
Severance by Ling Ma
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
Eloise at the Plaza (similarly Eloise at Christmastime) by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
From The Mixed-Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (Barnard class of 2002!)
Musicals:
Annie
In the Heights
Newsies
Company
Hair
Falsettos
West Side Story
Hamilton
Rent
NYC Skyline via Wikimedia Commons
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@andrew wang I would recommend CUNY professor William Helmreich’s “The New York Nobody Knows.” It’s a great work of urban sociology that was inspired by a game Helmreich played with his father called “last stop”–take any subway line to the last stop and learn as much as you can about that neighborhood. In writing the book, he made it his goal to walk all 120,000 blocks of NYC. Nine pairs of shoes later, he covered the distance from NYC to LA and back (plus another 900 miles). Two days ago he died of coronavirus at 74.
@Anonymous I’ll never forget when King Princess in the middle school we went to together made fun of me for having mouth-stains from a blue jolly rancher and then got yelled at by our math teacher. Never knew it’d become a treasured memory.
@Anonymous For books, I’d also recommend “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara and “Weather” by Jenny Offill.
Also, still not over how I went to middle school with King Princess where she made fun of me for having a blue mouth after eating a jolly rancher. Not sure what she said, exactly—she whispered the punchline about it to a friend of hers, and then got yelled at by our math teacher. Her music is great, though.