{"id":892643,"date":"2026-06-25T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/892643\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:31:11","slug":"cynthia-nixon-new-york-city-is-about-energy-and-grit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/892643\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Nixon: New York City Is About Energy and Grit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">First of all, can we just talk about you as a New Yorker, you were born here? \u2013 Yes. \u2013 What does that mean? What does it mean to be a New Yorker to you? You know, my dad \u2014 neither of my parents were born here. My mother was born in Chicago, and my dad was born in Harlingen, Texas. And my dad\u2019s \u2014 they both loved New York so much. And my dad said, as strange or surprising as this might sound, Texas and New York have a lot in common. One is that they\u2019re places that, you know, both really desperately want to secede from the rest of the country. And one is they are places where individuality and eccentricity are really nurtured and, you know, adored, worshipped. \u2013 Celebrated, yeah. \u2013 Celebrated. But the other thing is that New York is, like, the head of the list, like it trumps your, your profession, or your class, or your ethnicity, or your race, or your religion, or \u2014 \u2013 Oh my God, it\u2019s too early for tears \u2013 Right? Cynthia, but \u2014 \u2013 Like, I\u2019m a New Yorker, right? I\u2019m a Texan, right? So, to be a native New Yorker, I mean, to me, there are obviously as many kinds of New York as there are as many New Yorkers. But to me, New York is always about the energy and the grit. And, you know, New Yorkers, I think it\u2019s sort of fading now, but New Yorkers always have this reputation for being unfriendly. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re unfriendly at all. \u2013 No, I\u2019m from Philadelphia. We\u2019re late, we\u2019re busy, we\u2019re in a rush. But we will stop and and help you. And, we\u2019re just not going to say, like, how are you? How\u2019s your day? \u2013 Yeah. We\u2019re going to be like \u2014 \u2013 Keep it moving. \u2013 Do you know what train? You know what train you\u2019re waiting for? You know. Do you \u2014 okay, so this is how I feel like I\u2019m comfortable saying I\u2019m a New Yorker, is that, I also look for people to help show where to go. \u2013 Yeah. \u2013 And then when I see them not do it, I don\u2019t know if you do this, I run back to them and I\u2019m like, why are you going this way? I just told you where to go. And they\u2019re just, like, willfully going the wrong way. \u2013 Some people you can\u2019t help. \u2013 But we try, we try. \u2013 I don\u2019t think \u2014 yeah, I\u2019m not one of those people, like, you\u2019ve got to be here for 10 years, or you\u2019ve got to be here for 25 years. You know, I\u2019m like, are you here? Are you planning to stay? Then you\u2019re a New Yorker? \u2013 Yes, OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First of all, can we just talk about you as a New Yorker, you were born here? \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":892644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,361848,51257,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,88201,361849,31460,361850,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,340220],"class_list":["post-892643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-breakfast-at-tiffanys","tag-cynthia-nixon","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nycnew-york-city","tag-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three","tag-the-wiz","tag-tribeca-film-festivaltribeca-festival","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wesley-morris"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116812886074567303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}