On Saturday, Borough President Antonio Reynoso and I visited the Summer Street on Eastern Parkway and were asked: where did we fall in love *with* NYC? And where did we fall in love *in* NYC? What are your answers?
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With: in a cab driving over the Brooklyn Bridge (BK direction) and feeling “I’m home!” In: softball in Central Park with the cute right fielder
aug 26, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I miss Brooklyn, especially with this guy running for Mayor. Wish I was there to cast a vote for Mamdani. Where do many Brooklyn girls fall in love, in a bar. Wyckoff Ave.💙
aug 26, 2025, 4:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Somewhere on the Jersey turnpike heading into Manhattan... The Monster bar in the West village. Love like that is fleeting at best.
aug 26, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
I love NY! Fell in love on Times Square. What a place. :)
aug 26, 2025, 6:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Prospect Park, pickup ultimate frisbee game for me! And I just love the way Zohran speaks to us all like a real person -- he doesn't need to be poll tested or scripted.
aug 26, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
With: Prospect Park on a summer Sat afternoon, distancing for COVID but shouting mutual love to strangers and their dogs. In: Manhattan’s High Line, on a starry night after a Chelsea dance party let out. Always knew those stories were about New York people, just realized they’re also about parks.
aug 26, 2025, 4:20 pm • 7 1 • view
In this intensely urban place, parks are so important!
aug 27, 2025, 9:58 am • 0 0 • view
Raised in an upstate town about 180 miles away, many decades ago, from which we could visit the city once or twice a year, before the thruway. Might see a movie at Radio City. I, at 13 or so, would unleash myself and walk Fifth Avenue from Washington Square to Central Park, intoxicated the whole way
aug 28, 2025, 2:33 am • 4 0 • view
buy a hot dog and a pamphlet from Moondog, listen to some buskers, and I don't know what-all before reconnecting, exhausted, with the family. Always longed to live here from the first sight and smell, hitchhiked here in many adolescent crises.
aug 28, 2025, 2:40 am • 2 0 • view
I only visit NYC because I live in California but my favorite place by far is the arena with the most famous ceiling!!! MSG see you on 12/15 for the return of #20!
aug 26, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Wish he could be president. Need more like him & AOC.
aug 26, 2025, 4:13 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm from NYC and I fall in love all over again every time I go back. The moment that always stops my heart: when the LIRR from Jamaica turns the bend heading towards Manhattan and I see the whole skyline spread out in front of me. And I always think: my home. Mine.
aug 26, 2025, 4:09 pm • 41 0 • view
Mamdani just makes me smile man. Love him
aug 26, 2025, 4:11 pm • 26 0 • view
damn yes. wish I still lived there for so many reasons but voting for Mamdani is one of them. When was the last time we had a mayor who genuinely loved NYC as much as we do?
aug 26, 2025, 4:12 pm • 19 0 • view
NYC truly gets some of the most fucked up mayors. Glad to see the exact opposite happening!! Glad to see the money grubbers (gop AND dems!!) freaking the fuck out. Suck it, money grubbers!
aug 26, 2025, 4:15 pm • 12 0 • view
I feel you, a lot.
aug 26, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
it is SO mine
aug 26, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
the 7 has a bend like that. only lasts a few seconds, but i love it so much
aug 26, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
I've seen it from the 7, but I'm usually coming in from staying with family/friends on LI, so the LIRR is my viewpoint. But yes, it always looks so good.
aug 26, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, I sooo miss Tower Records!!!!!
aug 27, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I ran the NYC Marathon in 1989, finishing cold and exhausted. A random New York woman saw me in distress , wrapped her fur coat around my still sweaty body, and then walked with me up to West 86th where I was staying with friends. At that moment I fell in love with the city and all New Yorkers. ❤️
aug 27, 2025, 12:11 am • 6 1 • view
When I was born...
aug 26, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Getting happily lost in the Met Museum, strolling through Central Park.
aug 26, 2025, 4:05 pm • 16 0 • view
NYC native here. I fell in love with NYC during my high school years. Commuted by boat to LaGuardia HS and made so many friends from all across the city. I'll always cherish those days dearly. I've yet to fall in love in general, so no answer for the second question.
aug 26, 2025, 6:12 pm • 3 0 • view
fall breakup 💖
aug 26, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I was already in love with my husband the first time I visited NYC, with him and my young sons. And I fell in love with it, surprising, because I wasn’t expecting it. NYC is the most alive city I’ve ever visited, the most exciting, the most diverse, the most historical, and cultural. I love it ❤️
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aug 26, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
In a time when Trump is threatening to send federal troops to occupy blue cities, I think many New Yorkers feel they would rather have a mayor who loves them and their city and who will defend them tooth and nail than some power player who sees their city as a place to be managed.
aug 26, 2025, 4:39 pm • 10 0 • view
Born and raised, it’s a love hate thang 💅🏽
aug 26, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Go Zohran!
aug 27, 2025, 1:19 am • 0 0 • view
Aw, this is cute! See? This is something that really grabs voters' attention. Really shows how human Mamdani is and allows him to get to know his voters on a personal level.
aug 27, 2025, 12:26 am • 2 0 • view
Aboodeeaboodah? You just Howard Deaned your campaign!!
aug 26, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I went to NYC for a two day business trip and when I got back to Southern California I told our daughter "I got you a present from New York" and gave her a real NYC bagel. Does that count?
aug 26, 2025, 5:46 pm • 1 0 • view
🥯f course it does!
aug 26, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I have always loved NYC. Born in Brooklyn grew up visiting my grandma in Manhattan. And I fell in love in Queens!
aug 26, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I proposed to my wife on the Wonder Wheel, and I've never been more proud of that fact
aug 27, 2025, 4:36 am • 1 0 • view
That’s amazing! What a great choice
aug 27, 2025, 10:02 am • 0 0 • view
New York, New York. cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1
aug 26, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
It seems like truly the bare minimum, but Mamdani has the sauce. So nice to see a politician that it feels like you could meet in the real world.
aug 26, 2025, 4:01 pm • 19 0 • view
I fell in love with New York City on Christopher Street. I can't say I've fallen in love in NYC yet, but there's time still.
aug 26, 2025, 4:15 pm • 6 0 • view
About Christopher Street: notesfornobody.ghost.io/ghost/#/edit...
aug 26, 2025, 4:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Born and raised in manhattan before it got Disneyfied in 60-70’s - always loved the city but especially the old Yankee stadium when the Yankees sucked my grandfather had 4 season tickets one was obstructed view under over hang on 3rd base side so no one spilled a beer on you it was a magical place
aug 26, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
And at that moment FOX viewers turned to each other en masse and cried “AM IA SOCIALIST?!”
aug 27, 2025, 10:06 am • 0 0 • view
Taco is now the socialist take 10% of Intel Taco is agreeing with Bernie Sanders 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
aug 27, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, Bernie would want to nationalize the means of production to benefit the people. That is clearly not Trump’s plan.
aug 27, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
10% of Intel is 10% Doesn't matter why .. Slippery slope
aug 27, 2025, 9:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure, I’m just saying he doesn’t really agree with Bernie; this is just another grift
aug 27, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Hope Taco gets a lot of grief for being in the same camp as Bernie
aug 27, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree with you on this
aug 27, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
1962, moved here from college at age 21.. loved the beatiful mix of of people, languages spoken, food the beauty of the old buildings and the freedom to be …without others judging how you look or behave.
aug 26, 2025, 5:03 pm • 2 0 • view
1962, what a wonderful time to discover NYC! I was born there in 1958, so it's my childhood, teenage years, and early adulthood. I was so sorry to move away.
aug 26, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Sutton Square South, summer 1981, on a bench looking East at the Queensboro Bridge at sunset. My date and I married 2 years later and have been married for the 42 years since.
aug 26, 2025, 6:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes. You can fall in love in NYC. That's why a lot of people never leave, until they have to. Make NYC affordable again..?
aug 26, 2025, 4:10 pm • 7 0 • view
Fell in love on 92nd street. Adopted a senior dog on Sept 14, 2014. She's the greatest and got to live in New York for 5 years with us.
aug 27, 2025, 2:19 am • 2 0 • view
I don't live in NYC, but when I visit it's for the museums. 30 some yrs ago it was the AMNH at Central Park that hooked me & I've been to dozens more. NYC is magical in its own way. That magic is 100% due to the day-in day-out labor & love of everyone living there. 🫶🏼
aug 26, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I've never wanted to go to nyc, other than when I was a kid and thought it was sesame street, until you started this campaign. Because you show a side that makes it seem like it really IS sesame street. And I love that for ny.
aug 26, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Sesame Street is Park Slope. 😉 bsky.app/profile/live...
aug 27, 2025, 1:23 am • 1 0 • view
Grew up in NE Queens but stayed a lot w my grandmother in Manhattan when I was young. We'd go to museums, Chinatown, foreign movies (once I could read subtitles), ride buses everywhere, go to bookstores, etc. I vowed to live in Manhattan when I grew up, and that's just what I did. That's Amore!
aug 27, 2025, 1:35 am • 3 0 • view
Casual Eiffel 65 reference. Let's fucking go.
aug 26, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
First fell in love with the city the first time I visited, which was the Cloisters, for a school project in 1992. First fell IN love at Galapagos on N6th in Williamsburg, where I met my now husband in 2005.
aug 26, 2025, 4:20 pm • 3 0 • view
I've loved NYC ever since I was sentient enough to do so. I was born in Venezuela but my American parents returned to NYC when I was 1. I can't imagine living anywhere else. bsky.app/profile/zohr...
aug 27, 2025, 1:19 am • 1 0 • view
cuomo dusted any love there was off, when he turned the subway system into the flustercuck that it is today. this exercise is silly enough: now don’t go all trad ny pol on us and parrot that vacuous canard, “the greatest city in the world.”
aug 27, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Falling in love w NYC: Inwood Hill Park - 1970 having a Dominican food picnic with my family, cousins and running around this beautiful park. In love in NYC: birding in Van Cortland Park. 💝
aug 26, 2025, 6:16 pm • 6 0 • view
Two great uptown parks!
aug 27, 2025, 9:59 am • 0 0 • view
You bet. Upper Manhattan and da Bronx.
aug 27, 2025, 11:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Since it's become VERY apparent that we must rebuild and/or shore up OUR country's DEMOCRACY from the local level on UP, your communications team needs to start TRAINING others cuz connecting w/your community in this way ...yer checking every box! This is the way............
aug 26, 2025, 4:03 pm • 26 2 • view
I wonder if there will be mass migration TO nyc if Mamdani wins.
aug 26, 2025, 4:38 pm • 14 0 • view
Reading these sweet with and in stories has me checking the deadline to register in time to vote for Mamdani if I moved there!
aug 27, 2025, 9:13 am • 0 0 • view
Riis Park. (Born in Flatbush). Life Cafe, (at its old location on NE corner of Thompkins Square Park).
aug 26, 2025, 4:29 pm • 6 0 • view
Me too on Life Cafe!
aug 26, 2025, 5:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Ha that’s great! It was fun to watch the play/film Rent tried to capture that time and place.
aug 26, 2025, 5:23 pm • 4 0 • view
I fell in love witn NYC when we moved in from the suburbs in 1964 and my mother let me take my little sister by bus to the Central Park Zoo. So that's the first place I fell in love in NYC: the Central Park Zoo.
aug 26, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Delacorte Theater, Threepenny Opera, the night of the blackout. Most romantic night ever. Walked home down Fifth Ave to SoHo.
aug 26, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Ya gotta squint a bit to make it true but imma say Decatur Audio Laboratories for both 🥰
aug 26, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
I didn't fall in love in NYC but I did fall in love with it in Bed-Stuy in '92. That was confirmed at the corner of 32nd and 6th December 31st, 1999.
aug 27, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
The Museum of Natural History when I was a kid. A date on Governors Island ❤️
aug 26, 2025, 4:30 pm • 10 0 • view
I fell in love with NYC when I visited Washington Square Park for the first time in 1985. I fell in love at The Poetry Project in the East Village where I met my wife to be 15 years later. 💙💙💙
aug 26, 2025, 6:39 pm • 6 1 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
*With*: picking up Haitian bread from Le Bon Pain in Queens Village where I grew up, and heading to Shea with a Pepsi can to sit in the bleachers for free on Wednesdays. *In*: had my first kiss with my now husband outside NYPL, eloped 10 years later and took pictures outside of it to celebrate. ❤️
aug 26, 2025, 6:10 pm • 7 0 • view
Grand Central Station is where I fell in love with NYC. I was 2 or 3. Mom and I were walking through the great hall, she stopped and bent down, and whispered in my ear “ look up”. I tilted my head all the way back and saw the stars. That was 1953 or 1954. I’ve never forgotten that moment. ❤️
aug 26, 2025, 5:15 pm • 25 2 • view
You had a good mom!
aug 26, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
She was huge on “educational enrichment”. Starting when I was ~5 I’d get stuffed into a very itchy pair of woolen leggings w/ an equally itchy woolen hat & coat & dragged off to some museum or other. At that age it was Natural History Museum, or the zoo, in summer it was the Coney Island Aquarium.
aug 26, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m so happy for you! She sounds like a wonderful human being. I grew up with a malignant narcissist but I’m happy to report that overall I have a great life in spite of it!
aug 26, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Mom had her moments. Glad things turned out ok for you.
aug 26, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t we all. Thank you!
aug 27, 2025, 12:50 am • 1 0 • view
What a stellar Mom moment ✨️
aug 26, 2025, 9:11 pm • 7 0 • view
Mom was born in Brooklyn,NY in 1911. She knew everything about the city and could tell amazing stories about the city in the early 20th century.
aug 26, 2025, 9:48 pm • 3 0 • view
All the cool people seem to have been born in Brooklyn... she sounds like one of them🌻
aug 27, 2025, 1:13 am • 2 0 • view
Fun fact:he never graduated, but Danny Kaye was in HS with her, just 2 years behind her.
aug 27, 2025, 10:32 am • 1 0 • view
😎
aug 27, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I fell in love with NYC when I moved there. It has mystical magic.
aug 27, 2025, 12:06 am • 1 0 • view
my man knows the genius that is eiffel 65’s song My Playstation
aug 26, 2025, 4:29 pm • 6 0 • view
Ha ha ha, I've heard you, believe it or not.
aug 26, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a local politician sharing a personal moment, asking people to reflect on when and where they fell in love with New York City, and a specific spot where love bloomed, to connect on a deeper, emotional level.
aug 26, 2025, 4:00 pm • 20 0 • view
Palace Theater, August 1980 revival of Oklahoma! When Curly appeared, on a horse, singing "Oh, what a beautiful morning", I knew that I was at the center of the Universe, and that I would forever ❤️ New York!
aug 26, 2025, 5:26 pm • 6 0 • view
Sadly the answer for at least one person is probably “my halcyon days in the 1980s when I could do whatever I wanted with impunity alongside my best friend Jeffrey.”
aug 26, 2025, 9:34 pm • 2 0 • view
The joy this brings me!
aug 26, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view