1853 March 5, Charles G[odfrey] Leland, “The Sadness of Rome---and Other Cities”, in The Pen and Pencil. A Weekly Journal of Literature, Science, Art and News., volume I, number X, Cincinnati, Oh., pages 303–304, columns 2–1:
There is the Paris sadness, which is that of satiety and reaction, and the Viennese, which is that of Strauss. / There is the Bostonian, which is commercial literary; and the New Yorkian, which is blague commercial—yet no bad spirit withal—and the Philadelphian, which is peculiar in being without a peculiarity, which moveth silently, divineth unutterable things within itself, and behaveth decently,—a very commeil faut sort of sadness! / These are the varieties of sadness, pertaining to each city.
1855, Charles G[odfrey] Leland, “The Sadness of Rome and of other Cities”, in Meister Karl’s Sketch-Book, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan,[…], page 69:
Also the Parisian sadness, which is that of satiety and reaction; and the Viennese, which is that of Strauss. / There is the Bostonian, which is commercio-literary; and the New Yorkian, which is faro-commercial, inspired with or “Sass and Brass,” and steamed up with enterprise, deviltry, fun, humbug, and go-aheaditiveness; and the Philadelphian, which advanceth also, but with a more measured tread—which is peculiar in being without a peculiarity, which moveth silently, divineth unutterable things within itself, and behaveth decently—a very comme-il-faut sort of sadness, which presenteth many solid points of social comfort. / These are the varieties of sadness pertaining to each city.
“We hope the competition will exist pro bono publico,” continues Mrs. Carleton. “The omnibus line is well patronized and a ride in one of those vehicles is certainly an enjoyable novelty; the very act of climbing into one seems citified and New Yorkian, and pulling the strap and poking 5 cents through the little round hole in the roof is a treat indeed.[…]”
1876 September 22, “Broadway Breezes. Two Hundred Thousand Visitors. Thronged Hotels, Crowded Steamers, Railroads and Ferryboats.”, in The New York Herald, number 14,641, New York, N.Y., page 4, column 5:
Broadway is / the typical street of america, / the typical street of the whole world. The current of the world’s life surges through it to-day. Only a short half generation ago it was entirely American, or, more properly speaking, it was, to coin a word, New Yorkian. In these early autumn days the men we see upon it, the men who have contributed to make it what it is, who control its politics, who lead its Bar, who preside over its literature and art, who write its ledgers and keep the record of its great accounts in trade and commerce with all the countries of the world, are in outward appearance an entirely different people from those of fifteen years ago.
1881 July, “Va Meeting Meeting of Am. Institute of M. Eng’rs”, in Jed[ediah] Hotchkiss, editor, The Virginias. A Mining, Industrial and Scientific Journal: Devoted to the Development of Virginia and West Virginia, volume II, number 7, Staunton, Va., pages 106–107, columns 2–1:
Yes, Virginians have had ores and iron which were from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and many other states, but, thank the spirit of progress and the good star of the regenerated Virginia that now you are going to use not Pennsylvanian, New Yorkian, New Jerseyian, but among others your-own-ian.
1887, Henry Erroll, ““The warm Sun shining””, in An Ugly Duckling, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 120:
Her own modest stock, which she had thought so lavish, was quite thrown into the shade by the Philadelphian and New Yorkian furbelows and flouncings; the make and cut of her things affording much amusement to the others, although no one, except Anna Poujade, ever remarked upon them to her face.
The lines are American—New Yorkian, in fact—but they are not by Edgar Allan Poe, whose “Bells” ring a more elaborate peal.
1888 July, “Editorial”, in W[illia]m Boericke, W[illis] A[lonzo] Dewey, editors, The California Homœopath. A Monthly Journal,[…]., volume VI, number 7, […]Boericke & Schreck, page 222:
Our National Society should be more national and not so much New Yorkian. The last three meetings were successively held in that State; indeed, five out of the last eight meetings were held in New York.
A bank building having several stories of offices above the ground floor used for banking purposes was considered as offering too many facilities to burglars, and lofty buildings in general were stigmatised as “New Yorkian,” and therefore abhorred of all true Philadelphians.
1895 December, “Book Notices”, in The Bachelor of Arts: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to University Interests and General Literature, volume II, number 1, page 139:
He is not only American, he is New Yorkian.
1898 March 19, “Around Town”, in Saturday Night, volume 11, number 18, whole 538, Toronto, Ont., page 1, column 1:
It was not English; it was essentially New Yorkian.
1900 January 15, “Some Alleged Doctors”, in Frank Kraft, editor, The American Homeopathist: An Exponent of Homeopathic Medicine, volume XXVI, number 2, A. L. Chatterton & Co., page 31, column 1:
FROM a New Yorkian source we learn that a physician, called by a stranger to a lady whom he found taken suddenly very ill in an apartment house, flatly refused to minister to her needs unless given his usual fee of three dollars.
1901 June 26, [Dramatic and musical criticisms][1], column 2:
To [Charles Godfrey] Leland the Bostonian sadness was “commercio-literary,” the New Yorkian was “faro-commercial,” while the Philadelphian was “peculiar in being without a peculiarity;” it moved silently, divined unutterable things within itself, behaved decently—“a very comme-il-faut sort of sadness, which presenteth many solid points of social comfort.” [See 1855 quotation.]
1907, Papers and Addresses of the Lebanon County Historical Society, page 443:
The guileless women were helpless for they could not disprove these claims, and many of them appeared to be very glad for the rare opportunity of purchasing what had been brought from such distant and mysterious countries, and thus be able to eat and wear the same things as their more favoured Philadelphian, New Yorkian and Parisian sisters!
1908 April 16, “A Few Lines on the “Big Burg””, in The Los Angeles Record, volume XX, number 9281, Los Angeles, Calif., page 4, column 1:
The editor of perhaps the most widely read magazine issuing from the metropolis was recently asked, “Is your magazine read much in New York city itself?” / “Oh, yes,” he answered, “but we are more popular in the United States.” The answer was indicative. New York is not American. It is merely New Yorkian. And the New Yorker is beginning to know it and to regret it.
1908 April 17, The Birmingham News, volume XX, number 30, Birmingham, Ala., page 5, column 4:
Blach’s Furnishings Stocks Are New Yorkian / “New Yorkan”[sic] indeed! You can find complete, well chosen lines of everything men wear.
1912, B[essie] Pullen-Burry, “The hotel at Banff—Alpine Club—Mountain scenery—The Great Divide—Lake Emerald—Nervousness—The Yoho Valley”, in From Halifax to Vancouver, London: Mills and Boon, Limited,[…], part II, page 308:
Presumably, Wall Street accounts for the ultra-nervous condition of some of the New Yorkian middle-aged men.
1912 June 2, Oliver Madox Hueffer, “Do New Yorkers Maintain “the Highest Ideals of Street Manners”?: Oliver Madox Hueffer, the English Novelist, Gives His Impressions of What He Calls “The Kindly City.””, in The New York Times, volume LXI, number 19,853, part five, New York, N.Y., page 33, column 4:
What is more, he never seems at a loss for the way about his own city, being at once a map, a directory and an encyclopedia in all street affairs New Yorkian.
Now the Tong — which is a Chinese Secret Society — is New Yorkian and Oriental and picturesque all at the same time.
1915 November 24, ““First Night” at New Playhouse: Auspicious Inaugural of Theater Belvoir Proves Event in Twin Cities”, in The Champaign Daily News, volume XXI, number 101, Champaign, Ill., page 1, column 4:
If one were to set himself the task of finding possible criticism in this regard he would inevitably be compelled to have recourse merely to the possible objection that the play-story savors a trifle too much of the New Yorkian locale.
“I am Lady Drummond!” shrieked an unmistakably New Yorkian voice, “and I wish to see his Lordship—at once. My—phew!—this is musty! We’ll have to do the fox-trot with some of these relics!”
1920, E. Virginia Smith, “Spring, Spring, Ineffable Spring!”, in The Crucible, Annville, Pa.: Lebanon Valley College, page 3:
“And are you a relative of Mrs. Mac Allister of this church,” he asked in confused wonder. / “Well, rather distantly related, I suppose,” was the answer, and with a mischievous glance, “I’m her only daughter.” Her blue eyes looked innocently into his dark ones. “You can’t possibly belong to the Ellsworths who live next door to me?” / “Not at all, was Bob’s prompt reply, “I’m their only son. I say, Miss Meredith, that’s a nice joke to play on an old friend of yours!” / “Really, Bob, your New Yorkian omniscience is overwhelming at times. Now if your legal mind can’t comprehend that, run along and have Grace help you look it up in the dictionary, I’m busy.”
1924 June 9, “A Heap O’Things”, in Lancaster New Era, Lancaster, Pa.: The New Era Publishing Corporation, page 6, column 3:
Evidently Al Smith has forgotten that the question of states’ rights was settled about 1864. Now he wants beer sold “where the States want it.” / Is that Smithian or New Yorkian statesmanship? / Or just political hokum?
1925 December 3, “Markets Replace Catacombs; Quarries Used For Garages As Paris Wars on Congestion”, in Plainfield Courier-News, Plainfield, N.J., page 1, column 7:
Prevented by a sandy subsoil and the fear of future air attacks from building New Yorkian skyscrapers Paris is fighting growing congestion by burrowing.
1927, Architect and Engineer, page 109, column 1:
While Mr. Murchison habitually writes with a preternatural effervescence, it is generally about matters so provincially New Yorkian as to be of limited interest to the great world outside.
Arthur Carlson, New Yorkian Specialist, 503 Fifth Avenue, New York.
1928 December 6, Dalnar Devening, “All American”, in The Daily Missoulian, volume LV, number 220, Missoula, Mont., column “The Oracle”, page 4, column 6:
Take a Brunonian list, or New Yorkian; / Lineups of Michigan, Fordham or Yale, / And tell me whence Niemiec, Magal, and Kevorkian, / Sjostrom, Wisniewski, and Kovalcheck hail!
1929 September 24, Jack Hoins, “All Around Town”, in The Standard Union, volume LXVI, number 73, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y., page 10, column 3:
MIGHT WE suggest to Joe Frederickson of the B. M. T. that he start off this painting of the Fulton street “L” structure with a little more of the good old New Yorkian ceremony?
It is quite New Yorkian in its variety of accommodations.
1937 April 17, Mae Traller, “Hill Words a Problem: An Ozarks Writer Says Their Language Is Pure.[…]”, in The Kansas City Times, volume 100, number 92, Kansas City, Mo., page 22, column 1:
Those outside the hills seem to be afraid the argument is going to take away the picturesqueness of our hillsman by proving that his speech is perfectly normal—or at least New Yorkian, while dwellers in the fringe of the Ozarks seem fearful of having it proved that we do have a dialect.
1938 June 6, Lou Kennedy, quotee, “Off the Record”, in The Brooklyn Citizen, volume CII., number 132, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y., page 2, column 3:
Times Square belongs to the people of New York. They have made it the nucleus of a city strange to some, dear to many. It embodies this spirit of fellowship and New Yorkian democracy.
1938 December 18, ““this is n. y.” offers everybody …”, in The Knoxville News-Sentinel, number 17,173, Knoxville, Tenn., page C-7, column 6:
An hour of entertainment that is typically New Yorkian … at 7:00!
1941 November 10, George Tucker, “In Manhattan”, in The Lexington Herald, volume 71, number 269, Lexington, Ken., section “Dress Clothes For Kent”, page 4, column 7:
A peculiarly New Yorkian product about town are the U-Wear It shops, which rent “Tuxedos, Cutaways, Evening Clothes” to people who have no dress clothes of their own but who must get all dolled out for some special occasion.
1942 January 19, Dale Harrison, “Dale Harrison’s New York”, in The Scranton Times, number 16, Scranton, Pa., page 5, column 3:
One frequently hears the remark: “I’d like to get out of New York,” but those who do move away invariably become disgruntled and unhappy. They long for the things New York has which are peculiarly New Yorkian — things that are difficult to put a finger on, like the lights, the gayety, the bustle, the noise, even the city’s smell.
1944 July, C. Parameswaran, Dayananda and the Indian Problem, Svami Vedananda Tirtha, page 189:
A public meeting was arranged, at which the New Yorkian theosophists stated that the object of their visit to India was to pay their reverential homage to Svami Dayananda Sarasvati, whom they accepted and acknowledged as their “guru and guide”.
1947, Reports from C.R.B. Belgian and American Advanced Fellows, Graduate Fellows, Special Fellows in the United States and Belgium, page 1:
The feeling of heavy competition, which is present everywhere, subjects every individual living in it to a continuous mental stress, stimulating but exhausting. This very specific New Yorkian atmosphere produces the individualistic and isolated attitude of its inhabitants. For a foreign student, it seems then particularly difficult, and practically impossible to have a more intimate contact with New York families, as a way to get an insight in the American way of life.
Common sense undoubtedly would point out that some New Yorkers seem to be generally bright (successful) re all things New Yorkian, whereas others seem to be generally dumb (unsuccessful) re most things New Yorkian.
1962, Boletim do Instituto de Angola, page 142, column 2:
It is a passionate case which that New Yorkian jew convinced himself, and convinced half the world, regarding the important mission that was attributed to him to contemporaneously revise the records of Jesus.
1973, Glenn MacDonald, Report Or Distort?, New York, N.Y.: Exposition Press, →ISBN, page 218:
The story has a potential anti-American element to it, but not quite suited to the tense New Yorkian melodrama style in which world events become soap opera.
1973 March 8, “Lindsay Bows Out: ‘Eight Years Long Enough’ as N.Y.C. Mayor”, in The York Dispatch, volume 195, number 85, York, Pa., page 1, column 7:
John Vliet Lindsay, saying that “eight years is too short a time but it is long enough for one man,” announced that he would not seek re-election as mayor of New York City this year. / But in true Byzantine-New Yorkian fashion, many of the city’s politicians did not believe him, even though Lindsay said his decision “is based on personal considerations and is final.”
1974, “Abraham Liesin and I”, in Joseph Leftwich, editor, An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Literature[2], The Hague: Mouton & Co., translation of original by Mani Leib, →LCCN, page 272:
In streets New Yorkian, with traders and dusk, / In Jewish streets, with Jewish junk and rust, / We saunter, with eternal sun over us high, / Two Yiddish poets, Liesin and I.
1975 December 15, William Fripp, “It was a Great Society reunion”, in The Boston Globe, volume 208, number 168, Boston, Mass., page 17, column 4:
The celebration was, as one New York visitor commented, “New Yorkian style, Washington in power, and Boston brains, but most of all it was fun and friends.”
1975 December 19, Ken Cruickshank, “Saint Has No Bones on Holiday”, in The Hartford Courant, volume CXXXVIII, number 353, Hartford, Conn., page 3, column 1:
It is fitting, says Martin Ebon in his book “Saint Nicholas, Life and Legend,” that the relics of the saint who was eventually converted into jolly figure of Santa Claus should lie in or near New York City. Santa Claus, he says, is a peculiarly New Yorkian creation.
1975 December 21, Giles M. Fowler, “Tough, Hot ‘Afternoon’ Set Out in Living Detail”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 96, number 95, Kansas City, Mo., page 1E, column 1:
The crisis in this film [Dog Day Afternoon] seems peculiarly New Yorkian, with that edge of grotesquerie that seems a day-to-day commonplace in the big town.
1976 September 6, John Dornberg, “Hungary: A Revolving Door of Free, Easy Communism”, in The Miami Herald, number 280, Miami, Fla., page 6-D, column 2:
Parking spaces in the capital are at a premium any time and during rush hours the jams reach New Yorkian proportions — a phenomenon to which asphyxiated Hungarians still point with pride rather than alarm.
Dividing these galleries on the third floor of 50 Earlham Street, and reached directly and rather forbiddingly by lift, is the poshest most New Yorkian gallery in the area, Robert Self’s.
1979, Ted Smart, David Gibbon, Michigan, New York, N.Y.: Crescent Books, →ISBN:
Perhaps, then, it is too much to expect that Michigan, so successful in industry, also attracts visitors. Certainly it lacks the New Yorkian vitality and cannot boast the awesomeness of the Grand Canyon, but Michigan’s scenery, with hills carpeted in snow in the winter, magnificent lakeside views and an exciting history restored in buildings, churches and museums, captures the hearts of many American and overseas visitors.
1979 July 12, “‘City like this … just beautiful’”, in The Reporter, number 273, Fond du Lac, Wis., page 3, column 1:
[Dick] Thomas cited one instance involving a New Yorkian twist to a fairly familiar Fond du Lac situation. “Two years ago, when we had the big snow storms, we had separate falls of 20 and 27 inches. They don’t handle the clearing of snow there the way you do here. If they get more than about six inches of it, there’s trouble.
1979 October 25, Rae Ballantyne, “They’re After Blood and Sometimes They Get It”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume LXXI, number 184, West Palm Beach, Fla., section S, “Post-Times Shopping Bee”, page S6, column 1:
The cigar-chewing, leisure-suited, fight-hardened veterans shouting such New Yorkian statements as, “Dis is da woist fight I eva seen!” and “Stop da fight!”
1980 September 9, Harold Schindler, “Emmy Show: Nonsense Marathon”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 221, number 148, Salt Lake City, Ut., page C 5, column 2:
[Pete] Axthelm is a widely read columnist and a knowledgeable bloke when it comes to the Sport of Kings, having worked with the network on the 1979 Marlboro Cup, the English Derby and Irish Sweeps Derby, but his recent appearance for Newsweek on PBS’s Cover Story series ought to be proof enough that Axthelm’s broadcast voice rivals Mickey Spillane’s for unintelligible New Yorkian blather.
1983 September 8, Bob Colver, “Early-morning hours weren’t made to be fast-food hours”, in The Charlotte News, Charlotte, N.C., page 8, column 1:
I don’t often wax nostalgic about things New Yorkian.
1984, NHQ: The New Hungarian Quarterly, page 171, column 2:
[…]introduced by the prestige of the Paris school, from where the centre moved on to New York. Hence valuable avant-garde used to appear in a New Yorkian guise even at the end of the seventies when there was no longer any justification for this.
oscar:[…]Some of these establishments, like … Merchants’ Coffee House, have become a part of history. / manuela: Really? / oscar: It was there in 1717, no 1774, a “Committee of Correspondence,” started by New Yorkian patriots, sent a letter to a group of Bostonians proposing the union of American colonies.
1985, Acta Litteraria Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, page 234, column 2:
There is one chapter in the Guide which represents an earlier, all-pervasive determinant: that of a region (on “Southern Fiction”). We could expect nowadays — on this basis — a chapter on Californian or New Yorkian, literature with equal justification.
He [Jorge Luis Borges] still does go to the movies, but only musicals; at last count, he has seen, or, better, “heard,” West Side Story some seventeen times, and can recite the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim with considerable New Yorkian gusto.
1987, C. K. Williams, “Fame”, in Flesh and Blood, published 2014:
I recognize the once-notorious radical theater director, now suffering general public neglect / but still teaching and writing and still certain enough of his fame so that when I introduce myself / he regards me with a polite, if somewhat elevated composure, acknowledging some friends in common, / my having heard him lecture once, even the fact that I actually once dashed off a play / inspired by some of his more literary speculations, but never does he ask who I might be, / what do, where live, et cetera, manifesting instead that maddeningly bland and incurious cosmopolitan / or at least New Yorkian self-centeredness, grounded in the most unshakable and provincial syllogism: / I am known to you, you not to me, therefore you clearly must remain beneath serious consideration.
1987, Jack Van Messel, “A Tough Cooky Makes a Too-Tough Review”, in The Absolute Sound, page 31, column 2:
Let me conclude that TAS [The Absolute Sound] is a good product, even if it is sometimes difficult to understand for people who aren’t fluent in any of the New Yorkian languages, including American and Audio Latin.
1988, Paras Diwan, Private International Law: Indian and English, 2nd edition, Deep & Deep Publications, →ISBN, page 108:
For example, two Indians domiciled in New York enter into a contract in Italy. For the breach of this contract a suit is brought in a New York court. The defence is lack of capacity. Which of the three laws, Indian, New Yorkian or Italian should apply ?
1989, M. L. Trivedi, B. S. Gill, S. S. Saini, editors, Plant Science Research in India: Present Status and Future Challenges (Aspects of Plant Sciences; volume XII), Today & Tomorrow’s/Scholarly Publications, →ISBN, page 640:
However, the New Yorkian genera have bordered circular to oval pits uniseriate to multiseriate on their metaxylcm tracheid walls.
1990, Jim Speros, “Huntington Beach”, in Cauldron, page 200, column 1:
Some speak Russian. Some Italian. Some Spanish, Greek, Arabic, or French. Some talk with British accents; some with a New Yorkian twing or a southern twang.
[Eero] Koivistoinen is a Finnish tenor and soprano saxophonist, but the flavour of this 1991 date is thoroughly New Yorkian—not because the leader is overshadowed by his very fine American collaborators, but because he has clearly decided to conduct modal investigations in the manner of 20 or so years ago, when he was himself in the United States, and brings to that purpose highly idiomatic writing and arranging skills.
1993, Tanya T. Fayen, transl., Hot Soles in Harlem (Discoveries), Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Literary Review Press, translation of Harlem todos los días: Novela by Emilio Díaz Valcárcel, →ISBN, back cover:
Gerardo Sánchez is not the average Puerto Rican immigrant to New York City: he is ironically blessed with blond hair and blue eyes, fair skin, and the good fortune to have met Aleluya, an intrepid guide to the “New Yorkian” world, on his first day in the city.
1993 June 25, Rob Morse, “Bugged, dad, by the Bay”, in San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, Calif., page A-3, column 1:
The cold gaze to nowhere is a dismayingly New Yorkian bit of body language to learn, but it’s the best way to avoid being bugged for quarters, bugged by guys handing out flyers for clothing sales, bugged by people with petitions, bugged by people who may take a dislike and beat or kill you.
New Yorkian stage names are used. Their possible European equivalents have been discussed in the text.
1995, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, editor, Images of Central Europe in Travelogues and Fiction by North American Writers, Stauffenburg Verlag, →ISBN, page 319:
This New Yorkian overlay of Prague explains something, temporarily.
1996, Outposts Poetry Quarterly, page 8:
My overall impression, though, is quite simply that [Stephen] Spender is still a poet who will not forsake the image, the object, will not intrusively go beyond what he believes the words are trying to say, and insists on finding similarities within existences that consequently not only reveal a philosophy but just as appropriately reveal a penetrating intellect that is receptive and analytical without anything resembling an offensive egotrajectory, and humble without tolerating the succumbency to anything resembling those Californian and New Yorkian trends in the modern adultery of words.
[“the movie”:] The Pompatus of Love[…][“critique”:] Speedy pace of music-vid style suits New Yorkian nervous energy, filled out by intense cast
1997 February 2, Scott Craven, “Manhattan does the Strip in Las Vegas”, in Phil Hennessy, editor, The Arizona Republic, number 260, Phoenix, Ariz., page T12, column 1:
The doormen (no doorwomen were seen) are dressed in traditional ankle-length coats, as seen in episodes of Seinfeld, the quintessential New York comedy. And the 2,035-room hotel [New York-New York Hotel and Casino] seems about as New Yorkian as the sitcom, which is filmed in Los Angeles.
But the availability of Bosnian films in London, (or New Yorkian poetry slams in Manhattan), says nothing at all about the national level of cultural energy.
1998 February 16, Cynthia Robins, “A day for tea and chocolate martinis”, in San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, Calif., page D-8, columns 3–4:
(And my, does it change with time of day. Lunches are relaxed and muted; cocktails can be ultra-sexy — a great place for a tryst over Kir Royale and caviar — and nightcaps with the CR’s chocolate martinis are almost New York-ian in feel. Sort of like the Rainbow Room on ground level).
1999 January 29, Rana Lehr, “‘24 Hour Woman’: Take a comedic look into the pressure-filled life of today’s women”, in The Daily Herald, Provo, Ut., pages C1, column 4; and C2, column 1:
Even though [Rosie] Perez is ethnic and speaks with a natural, slight accent, in the movie [The 24 Hour Woman] she played the part of an Italian-American and spoke perfect New Yorkian English, complete with foul language.
Professor Gordon Parker, the executive director of the Black Dog Institute, a mood disorder centre, says stress levels are rising. “In the past decade people have been working longer hours with fewer breaks. It is almost getting New Yorkian, with people eating and drinking as they scurry off to work.”
2003, Juan Faura, “Mucho Gusto! It’s A Pleasure to Meet You”, in The Whole Enchilada: Hispanic Marketing 101, Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., published 2004, →ISBN, section “Marissa Lozan, Age 27, Brooklyn NY, page 22:
I’m Marissa, and I’m from Brooklyn, New York. I am from PR, that’s Puerto Rico to you. Since I was born here but my parents are Puerto Rican I am what you would call New Yorkian.
2005, Osei G Kofi, Hello Africa: Tell Me, How Are You Doing?: A Noble Continent in Painful Renaissance, Hello Africa Publishing, →ISBN, page 317:
The slew of New Yorkian high-rises that began to scale the Abidjan skyline and good road networks linking most of the major towns were built on cash from agriculture.
The words manage to crawl between us. “El tumor…” “La quimioterapia.” Her Argentinean accent challenges me, and I’m sure my pastiche of Mexican–Peruvian–Guatemalan–New Yorkian Spanish makes her squint.
An archetypically assertive New Yorkian performance by Bang on a Can (on Canteloupe)[sic] featured electric guitars and drums.
2008 January 10, Helen Schwab, “The Skinny on Dining: NYC-style delis that just might make the cut”, in The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, N.C., page 20:
▪ Benny’s: Portions are New York-ian, and prices can be, too, so plan on splitting things.
2008 March 21, Matt Jacob, “Battle of the Sexists: On Television Shows — Reality Bites”, in The Signpost, volume 78, number 75, Ogden, Ut., page 3, column 5:
But this “King of Queens” is as inept as its title. Basically, it’s a New Yorkian, blue collar version of Home Improvement.
2009 June 3, Mary Sanchez, “Underestimating Sotomayor: Nominee’s past doesn’t necessarily predict her future”, in Muscatine Journal, Muscatine, Iowa, page 4A, column 3:
I wish Sonia Sotomayor didn’t have quite so much empathy. I’d like to hear her unleash a New Yorkian tongue-lashing on the oh-so-predictable detractors who are circling as if a weaker species has come into their den.
There weren’t many cars or vehicles, but people swooped about on bicycles, managing to avoid the worst of the potholes, which were positively New Yorkian in their depth.
2010, Freddy Niagara Fonseca, “The New York City Zoo”, in Freddy Niagara Fonseca, editor, This Enduring Gift: A Flowering of Fairfield Poetry: 76 Poets Who Found Common Ground in One Small Prairie Town, 1stWorld Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 8, “The Poetry of Animals, Pets, and All of Us”, page 308:
When you watch the skyline there across the river, / Really, New York City is a shining dream … // But you cannot dream that dream forever. / You must come down and cross the stream. / Soon you act New Yorkian and you hurry, / And so you lose your peaceful Sunday dream.
2010 March 10, Robert Strauss, “A new moniker can revitalize a place. Neighborhood name game is serious stuff”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, number 283, Philadelphia, Pa., page E3, column 4:
When New York developer Tony Goldman acquired a handful of buildings about a decade ago in the area just east of Broad Street and south of Market, he wanted to call it “Blocks Below Broad,” said Meryl Levitz, head of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation. That didn’t come to be (Philadelphians don’t like being called “the sixth borough” or anything else New Yorkian, Levitz said), but these days, people are referring to the area as Midtown Village, which seems to be catching on.
Perhaps less obvious to those not native to the five-borough asylum, the drawing can be viewed even more simply as an admission of agoraphobia, that non-apocryphal New Yorkian fear of the open sky.
2012, Cy A Adler, “Leg 2: West 42nd Street to 125th Street”, in Walking the Hudson: From the Battery to Bear Mountain:[…], revised edition, Woodstock, Vt.: Countryman Press, →ISBN, page 46:
Along this leg one can usually find hot dogs, knishes and assorted New Yorkian nosh delicacies, and toilets.
The inescapable Beaux Arts style, the many monuments by McKim, Mead & White, the white brick 1960s behemoth apartment blocks towering above modest brownstone houses; French gothic chateaux, Italian Renaissance palazzi, sham Louis XVI furbelowed facades flaunt themselves next to restrained Georgian-style town houses; baroque-faced churches, prim Puritan places of worship, elaborate synagogues are jumbled next to turreted fantasies, vast apartment blocks, gleaming mirrored office skyscrapers. It’s all utterly New Yorkian.
1767 July 9, Sylas Neville, The Diary of Sylas Neville, 1767—1788, Oxford University Press, published 1950, page 17:
Mr Hollis tells me that Bute has established a Jesuit in a school at Kensington and has sent two of his younger children to be educated by him, and had made Barron … send two of his. He thinks with me that the late Act of Parliament respecting New York most tyrannical and hopes the honest New Yorkians will not submit to it, but will draw their swords in defence of their Liberty.
1788 October 4, “Site for Capitol”, in Pittsburgh Gazette; republished as “Extracts From The Pittsburgh Gazette: Site for Capitol”, in The Gazette Times, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1923 January 27, page 6, column 5:
What pity it is that the New Yorkian of that honourable body should make them so blind to real interest as not to prefer the first city on the finest river in the most respectable state in America, to a parcel of buildings, confusedly situated on a pitiful island which has neither ice in winter to protect it, nor force in summer sufficient to prevent Congress and all their papers being carried off by pirates.
1828, “The Farmer”, in The United States of North America as They Are, London: […]W. Simpkin and R. Marshall,[…], page 195:
The possessor of this farm is a German or an Anglo-American, Yankee, New Yorkian, or Pennsylvanian.
At the end of the play, the clever New Yorkians actually called for Mr. Keppel! and this most worthless clapping of hands, most worthlessly bestowed upon such a worthless object, is what, by the nature of my craft, I am bound to care for; I spit at it from the bottom of my soul![…]Montresor banged himself about, broke his time, and made some execrable flourishes in the Prince, whereat the enlightened New Yorkians applauded mightily.[…]I do not wonder the New Yorkians did not approve of my Lady Teazle.[…]So, all things well considered, the New Yorkians must e’en be contented with the judgment of Miss [Elizabeth] O’Neill, my father, and their obedient humble servant.
1835 February 28, “The Observer of the Times. No. III.”, in The Court Journal: Gazette of the Fashionable World, number 305, London: […]for Henry Colburn; […]by W. Thomas,[…], page 131, column 1:
No London footman, no Irish master of the ceremonies ever bandied “my lady” or “your lordship” like a dashing New Yorkian or Bostonian.
It was impertinently said by (leaden) penciller Willis, of Captain [Frederick] Marryat’s nautical novels, that they could scarcely be entitled to rank as works of literature, “being read chiefly about Wapping.” We need not dwell on the recent results of that choice bit of criticism, the readers of the Times newspaper having been treated to a belligerent correspondence thereanent; from which all rational folks have concluded, that, though the New Yorkian had plenty of disposable lead in his pencil, paper pellets sufficed for his pistol.
1849 February 3, The Illustrated London News, volume XIV, number 356, London: William Little,[…], page 75, column 2:
CHESS IN NEW YORK. / SMART AFFAIR BETWEEN TWO NEW YORKIANS.
1852 June 26, “Atlantic and Transatlantic Sketches, Afloat and Ashore. By Captain Mackinnon,[…].”, in The Hampshire Advertiser;[…], volume XXIX, number 1505, Southampton, Hampshire, section “New Publications”, article section “Death Ahead”, page 7, column 4:
One great advantage Captain [Lauchlan Bellingham] Mackinnon possessed among the New Yorkians was his determination to be pleased—astonished—captivated—awe-struck if necessary at the beauty of the women, strength of the men, intuitive genius, repidity[sic] of acquirement of all sorts of knowledge, science and—not art—but the talent of making money—and his readiness to acknowledge every where, the most wonderful superiority of our cousin Jonathan Yankee over us dull heavy people at home.
1853 August 8, Frances Anne Kemble (Fanny Kemble), Villa Correali,[sic] Sorrento, Monday, August 8, 1853; republished as Further Records, 1848—1883: A Series of Letters by Frances Anne Kemble, Forming a Sequel to Records of a Girlhood and Records of Later Life, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, 1891, page 305:
In a letter I got the other day from the other side of the Atlantic, I was assured that Lord [Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of] Ellesmere pronounced the New York Crystal Palace a much more beautiful and better-built edifice than ours of Hyde Park glorious memory. I suppose his lordship must have been bent upon making himself desperately popular with the New Yorkians.
1858, [Josias Leslie Porter], “Route 26.—Ride to Deir el-Kamr and Bteddîn.”, in A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine; Including an Account of the Geography, History, Antiquities, and Inhabitants of These Countries, the Peninsula of Sinai, Edom, and the Syrian Desert; with Detailed Descriptions of Jerusalem, Petra, Damascus, and Palmyra. Maps and Plans. (Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers), part II, London: John Murray,[…]. Paris: Galignani; Stassin and Xavier. Malta: Muir, section IV, “Northern Palestine and Damascus”, page 412, column 1:
It reminds us of Knickerbocker’s story of the old New-Yorkians, who regulated the lines of their streets by the cow-tracks.
1862 December 2, “Manhattan”, “North and South. Letter from “Manhattan.””, in The Standard, number 11,966, London, published 18 December 1862, page 5, column 4:
That is rather sublime for a Western man, and largely untrue. A Southerner will meet him with a flat-footed denial, that we are not a nation, in the usual meaning of the word; that we are a mere union of sovereign states—large and small, each state equal, and known by some designation as New Yorkians, Virginians, Tennesseans, South Carolinians, Georgians, &c.; that nobody ever read of United Statesians, and as for Americans, the designation is a grand geographical lie, for Canadians, Kamschatkians,[sic] and Mexicans are equally Americans with the dwellers in the 34 respective states.
We may thus associate into an organism some eight hundred or one thousand influential New Yorkians who desire to sustain government against Southern rebellion and Northern sectionalism, and strengthen Northern loyalty to the nation, and stimulate property-holders and educated men to assert their right to a voice in the conduct of public affairs, national, state, and municipal, and do a little something toward suppressing the filthy horde of professed politicians that is now living on us and draining our national life by parasitical suction.
President [Andrew] Johnson has been making a tour to Chicago, and at different places he was very differently met. At New York his reception was enthusiastic, and he and his suite were entertained by the principal New Yorkians at a banquet given in his honor at Delmonico’s.
1868, [Matilda Charlotte Houstoun], “Disappointment”, in Sink or Swim?: A Novel, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers,[…], page 214:
The last tenant had been an American—a wealthy New-Yorkian—who, following the “common and unclean” habits peculiar to his country, had not improved either the outward appearance or the intrinsic value, in a delicate female point of view, of the carpets.
1869 February, “The Theatre Royal, Dublin, from 1841 to 1845. Part IV.”, in Dublin University Magazine, volume LXXIII, number CCCCXXXIV, Dublin: George Herbert,[…]; Hurst and Blackett, London, page 236, column 1:
He [Edwin Forrest] also appeared as Spartacus in the “Gladiator,” written expressly to his peculiar attributes, by Dr. Bird, of New York, and with his delineation of which he not only electrified the New Yorkians but traversed the United States in countless repetitions throughout their extremest longitude and latitude.
1883 August 18, “Behind on Water”, in R. M. Furman, Jordan Stone, Jno. D Cameron, editors, The Asheville Citizen, volume II, number 64, Asheville, N.C., page 2, column 2:
Our esteemed neighbors the New Yorkians have gotten terribly behind on water. So much so that a new aqueduct commission has been organized, and is ready to proceed with new sources of supply.
1890 June 26, “Masculine Women. Changes in the Most Loveable Thing on Earth, the American Girl.”, in The Newberry Herald and News, Newberry, S.C., page 1, column 7:
She spoke in a louder tone, and the silly “New Yorkian,” with its commanding note and the affectation of stable boy English, jarred like a file on my nerves.
1887 April, Arthur M. Hyde, “Howells’ Novels”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume LII, number VII/CCCCLXIII, New Haven, Conn.: […]the editors; Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor,[…], pages 278–279:
If you are in search of a typical, commonplace artist, the commonplace college student, the typical Bostonian, or New Yorkian; in short, if you wish to read of any phase of ordinary American life look in one of [William Dean] Howells’ novels.
1891 January 6, “January Juleps. Lithesome Literary Liquids Laconically and Lucidly Lithographed.”, in The Pittsburg Press, volume 8, number 5, Pittsburgh, Pa., section “Chicago Always on Top”, page 3, column 5:
New Yorkian—The value of the diamonds stolen in New York during 1890 was more than $50,000. / Chicagoan—It was more than $75,000 in Chicago. Why, almost every one was arrested for stealing more or less.
1891 March 8, the Jewelers’ Circular, quotee, “It Was Only a Dream”, in The Times, number 5645, Philadelphia, Pa., page 13, column 7:
New Yorkian (in Philadelphia). “Can you tell me the time?” / Philadelphian (looking at watch). “Quarter to 5 o’clock; but my watch is five minutes fast.” / New Yorkian. “Fast? Friend, what city is this?” / Philadelphian. “Philadelphia, of course.” / (There were a whirring and a thumping of a heavy body which gradually settled down on the New Yorkian’s chest. There it pressed him and caused him to awake, and, with a cold sweat covering his body, he found it was only a dream.)
1893, “Good Manners”, in Cope’s Mixture; or the Gentle Art of Advertising (The Gentle Art of Making Advertisements:[…]; Cope’s Mixture Selected from His Tobacco Plant (Cope’s Mixture. Cope’s Smoke Room Booklets., number eight)), Liverpool: At the Office[…], page 7:
Neither genius nor benevolence could atone for such sins as these; and it is evident from an episode in the career of a nameless New Yorkian, just brought to light, that vileness of similar blackness is eating “like a cankerworm” into the vitals of American society:—[…]
1898 March 8, John Robertson, “Have at Thee Again, Ralph Hoyt!”, in The Evening Bee, volume LXXXIII, number 13,198, Sacramento, Calif., published 11 March 1898, page 4, column 2:
And the out-of- work and the civic functionary and the millionaire said in their hearts: “Great is Diana Single Tax of the New Yorkians.”
1906 January 14, Kate Masterson, “The Fascination of Cities”, in The Sunday Star, number 43/16,548, part IV, Washington, D.C., page 7, column 5:
“Well, all I can say is,” speaks the chorus, “that people who don’t like New York have found out that New York doesn’t like them!” / Which is an epigram scorching in its severity from the New Yorkian who really belongs in some other city, where home, relatives and friends have been left behind in the desire for “little old New York,” as it has been rechristened. They always call it that.
1910 May 4, “Groom’s Pitching Beats New York: Lanky Twirler in Fine Fettle. Final Score, 8-3. Nationals Bombard Doyle”, in The Washington Herald, number 1306, Washington, D.C., section “Groom Gets a Single”, page 8, column 3:
No Washingtonian reached first after the sixth inning, and no New Yorkian after the fifth, save Chase, who tripled, with one out, in the seventh, and was left at third.
1916 March 14, Ruth Keller, “Artists in Recital: Last Program of Wichita Chorus Season Was a Winner”, in The Wichita Daily Eagle, volume LXI, number 99, Wichita, Kan., page 10, columns 1–2:
The words set to this music were written by Charles Hansen Towne, also a New Yorker, and as Mr. Werrenrath is a New Yorker, and according to his version of it, the song is full of little “New Yorkians.”
1921 July 21, The Axtell Standard, volume 23, number 32, Axtell, Kan., page 4, column 3:
Big ads were placed in all the big dailies in New York and a pile of public money was spent but no harness were sold because evidently very few New Yorkians have use for a harness.
1921 July 28, C. T. Rand, editor, The Neshoba Democrat, volume 40, number 8, Philadelphia, Miss., page 2, column 1:
A Neshoba Countian would see Tampico, Mexico, differently than a New Yorkian
1930 March 31, Punk Stacy, “[…]o’ the Morn”, in The Austin American, volume 16, number 305, Austin, Tex., section “Uncle Billy Pleased”, page 6, column 1:
He led the offensive, to say the least of his work, and the New Yorkians won a weird ball game to the tune of 17 to 2.
1932 January 21, “Ryerson Cards 73 to Capture Medal Honors”, in Miami Daily News, volume XXXVII, number 36, Miamia, Fla., page 13, column 1:
Ryerson drew one of the toughest assignments of the day as he matched strokes with A. R. Hakes, a fellow New Yorkian.
1932 February 3, “Sterrett Cards 80 to Capture 1st Round Tilt”, in Miami Daily News, volume XXXVII, number 49, Miamia, Fla., page 10, column 1:
Starting the back nine with a rally, the New Yorkian squared the match by taking the 10th and 11th holes.
They might, on the strength of this circumstantial evidence, set us down as far below the Mayan culture and teach the school children of the year 3,933 that in 2,000 years, from the Mayan to the New Yorkian, the American race degenerated wofully.
1933 December 9, Susie McGlook, “Unsophisticated People Also Can Be Interesting”, in Tampa Morning Tribune, number 343, Tampa, Fla., page 8, column 3:
Florida is heavenly if you can get off by yourself, near the Gulf, away from the Ohioans, back state New Yorkians, and Georgians.
1934 April 19, The Perry Packing Company, “Ask Me Another”, in The Manhattan Mercury, volume XXVI, number 61, Manhattan, Kan., page 3, column 1:
How simple! Protect the health and vigor of Newyorkians by shutting out Kansas eggs and poultry and butter and wheat and beef.
1953 July 22, “Senate Tilt: Takes Acid Turn; “Smear,” “Assassin” Enliven Session; McCarthy, Lehman And Monroney Lash Out At One Another”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, number 104, Cincinnati, Oh., section “Hiss Letter “Old Stuff””, page 17, column 6:
Senator Lehman asked why Senator McCarthy didn’t “explain how and why he accepted the support of the Communist party” when he was a Republican candidate for the Senate in 1946. / The New Yorkian said that in 1938 the Communist party had endorsed his candidacy for governor of New York and “I repudiated that offer within 15 minutes.”
1959 June 17, “Private Clubs Succumb to Death, Women, Taxes”, in The Hays Daily News, volume XXX, number 188, Hays, Kan., section “Changing Life”, page 8, column 4:
The aging “proper New Yorkian” who from the depts[sic] of “his” chair in “his” club responded to the story of the unremitting, unsuccessful, and often ludicrous campaign of a flamboyant man of great wealth to crash a top club with “I shouldn’t think any gentlemen’s club would let that bounder inside its doors” is a member of a dying breed.
1958, Columbia Library Columns, page 7:
All in all, father and daughter seem happiest among “New Yorkians”.
Beyond exploitation, the totalitarian nature of U.S. imperialism in Puerto Rico has to some extent deracinated the society: primary and secondary group relationships have been attacked as well as affective relationships in an all-out effort to instrumentalize them for commercial and profitable use: families divide between island and mainland, English and Spanish, New Yorkian against Puerto Rican, statehood against independence, etc.
1976 July 21, “Butch Lee Almost Makes U.S. a Basket Case”, in Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia, Pa., page 67, columns 1–2:
“THERE’S SOME RESENTMENT occasionally in Puerto Rico over me playing,” [Butch] Lee says, “because I’m what they call a New Yorkian[…]
1979, Caribbean Studies Newsletter, page 13:
The New Yorkian Comes Home to Puerto Rico: Description and Consequences
QUERIES HAVE POURED in from New Yorkians, Floridenos, Illinoisies, Vermontans and even Parisites asking, “What do we call natives of (wherever)?” How do we decide among Whereveronians, Wherevertes, Whereverans and Whereverers?
NEW YORKIANS, Floridenos, Illinoisies, Vermontans and even Parisites keep asking “What do we call natives of (wherever)?”
1985 February 25, Annie Santos Camarena, “American culture is enriching”, in Pacific Daily News, volume 16, number 24, Hagåtña, Guam: Guam Publications, Inc., page 19, column 3:
“A son of Guam, a Guamanian, a Chamorro - is like being in an audience somewhere in New York…“A son of New York, a New Yorkian, a New Yorker”. Talk about rubbing it in.
1986 April 6, Phil Reisman, “Roughing it like a real cowboy is not for the faint of heart”, in The Daily Times, Mamaroneck, N.Y.: Gannett Westchester Newspapers, page G1, column 4:
Smitty, part Cheyenne and part Crow, is the only paid hand. He looks at you and smiles and says, “I never met a New Yorkian before.”
1989, Reg Sprigg, Geology is Fun (Recollections), or, The Anatomy and Confessions of a Geological Addict, →ISBN, page 276:
I told a weak joke about New Yorkians, about the young lad taken for a stroll in Central Park by his adoring Nanny … A flock of birds alighted on the grass and the young boy called to his nurse … “Say Noise. look at de boids.” … “They’re not boids, Henry; they’re b-i-r-d-s” … “ Gosh, Noise, they sure choip like boids.”
1989 October 18, Nels Nelson, “New ‘King’ Debuts: Nureyev Stars in Role Yul Brynner Made Famous”, in Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia, Pa., page 47, columns 4–5:
That this “King and I” ain’t instant rice is evident from the price schedule, which trickles down just a couple of degrees from a New Yorkian $45 top to $27 for a Wednesday matinee balcony el cheapo.
And the idea was to “associate into an organism”—his [George Templeton Strong’s] phrase—800 to 1,000 New Yorkians who would support the government of the United States. [See 1863 quotation.]
Hillary Clinton just returned from her “listening tour” in Noo Yawk, where she (supposedly) said at one stop, “I’m learning a lot about the Umpire State from the wonderful New Yorkians I have met.”
2000 December 5, Barry Stanton, “Don’t count on Subway Super Bowl”, in The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y., page 2C, column 1:
“I’m very proud to be one of the top New Yorkians,” [Lawrence] Taylor announced.
2008 September 8, compiled by Dan Caesar, “Highlight Reel”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo., page B6:
For openers, ‘New Yorkian’ [Brett] Favre is a big hit with Jets[…]“It’s a good start,” Favre said. “I know I made the right decision,” about unretiring and moving on. “I’m a New York Jet. I don’t know about a native New Yorkian, or however you say it. Hey, I’m happy to be a Jet.”
2008 September 8, Sam Farmer, “Cassel might step in for Brady”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., page D11:
The native “New Yorkians” are restless.
2008 September 12, “Birds and ’Boys will know how to liven up Monday night”, in Philadelphia Daily News: The People Paper, Philadelphia, Penn., section “JETS (-1½) over Patriots”, page 111, column 2:
Brett Favre will never be a “New Yorkian,” but with Sam Cassel, er, Matt Cassel stepping in for the great Tom Brady, no matter what all the New England players are saying, there’s bound to be a letdown.
2016, Rolf C. Margenau, “The Color Purple”, in Public Information: Coming of Age During the Korean War, 2nd edition, Tewksbury, N.J.: Frogworks Publishing, →ISBN, page 250:
He was “simpatico,” and the Newyorkians called him “Colorado.”
In fact, the Californian or Ohioan or New Yorkian who lands a No. 4 plate on her all-terrain minivan is much more likely to survive the transition with her insanely sped up driving habits than the one who actually has to brake for a cow every now and then in Ravalli County.
2018, Colin G. Calloway, “Index”, in The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 603, column 2:
2018 April 22, Emily West, “Charles Sargent leaves behind two-decade legacy”, in The Tennessean, Nashville, Tenn., section “Political jump start”, page 2W, column 1:
“Charles [Sargent] has made a world of difference,” [Rogers] Anderson said. “He’s been a great legislator from Memphis to Mount Home. ... But who else will you get to talk to you like a New Yorkian?[…]”
