New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

- Griffin Dunne

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

- Philip Johnson

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

- Roland Barthes