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New York Captions for Instagram

Everyone has heard and seen “I love New York” on t-shirts and signs and stickers, but there are so many other New York Instagram captions that you can use. If you are looking for the perfect NYC Instagram captions for your travel photos or are looking for some inspiring quotes about New York then you are in the right place! Everyone who comes to New York wants to capture the sense of place, whether the Statue of Liberty, the yellow cabs, Central Park, the Empire State building and the hustle and bustle at every turn. Did you know that New York is among the most famous holiday destinations in the world?

Below you will find some funny, romantic, inspirational, and entertaining New York Instagram Captions to share your memories with your friends and family!

New York Captions for Instagram

Best New York Instagram Captions

If a man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

Welcome to the concrete jungle.

Once upon a time in New York.

New York City is a tourist trap I don’t mind being in.

A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else.

If you follow your heart just right, it will get you to New York City.

Taking a bite out of the Big Apple.

A New York minute.

Anything is possible. This is New York.

Enjoying every New York minute

New York, New Me

The city that never sleeps…

Sleepless nights and city lights.

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Wanderlust and city dust

Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York

London is a mystery, NYC is an explanation.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. – Russell Baker

New York is not a city – it’s a world. – Iman

I’m in a New York state of mind. – Billy Joel

I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards: New York. – Milos Forman

 I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline. – Ayn Rand

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. – Simone de Beauvoir

I want to be a part of it, New York, New York. – Frank Sinatra

Welcome to New York. It’s been waiting for you. – Taylor Swift

People go to LA to ‘find themselves,’ they come to New York to become someone new. – Lindsey Kelk, I Heart New York

‘New York!’ he said. ‘That’s not a place, it’s a dream.’ – Ralph Ellison

Being a New Yorker grounds you in every way. Before you walk out of the house, you can dress in the nicest clothes and be whoever you think you are, but when you’re on those streets, you’re just in the school of fish.”— Awkafina

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you’re going to the centre of the world, the lion’s den. – Zubin Mehta

When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles. – Neil Simon

I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork. – Madonna

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man. –  Mark Twain

One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life. – Miuccia Prada

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. – Michael Bloomberg

New York City’s the place where they said, ‘Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side’ – Lou Reed

If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. And I can’t have nobody talking nonsense about my boyfriend. Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do. – Walter Kirn

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. – Peter Shaffer

I’m just a little apple in the Big Apple.

I came, I ate, I conquered.

If you are looking for more generic captions and quotes, check out these travel captions for your photos!

Are you the travel type? If you have some LA photos, you can use these popular and unique Los Angeles captions too!

Funny New York Captions and New York Puns

Finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. It’s a boat time!

I’d really lake to live by Central Park

Winter in NYC is snow joke

Seeing Greene

A trip to New York takes quite a bit of dough.

Central Park always perks me up.

More like Empire Great Building, am I right?

Times Square heals all wounds

In winter, New York makes a great frost impression.

Staten Island floats my boat.

Stop Yankee-ng my chain.

First Time-rs Square.

A trip to NYC can be very taxi-ng on your wallet

In winter, NYC is the city of tights.

After sightseeing all day, I’m Central Park-ing myself down for the rest of the night

Times Square’s so bright, I need to wear shades.

I’m so happy we MET

I hope you have enjoyed these popular and unique New York insta captions and have found exactly what you are looking for! If you are visiting nearby Chicago, I have a post on Chicago captions and if you are hopping over the pond you can find these London captions as well!

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