![]() ![]() You’ll find disco, hardcore, pop, punk, jazz and folk penned by outsiders and lifers alike. There are broadway showstoppers and dispatches from the birth of hip-hop. ![]() You’ll find anthems by New York icons ranging from Lou Reed to Jay-Z. Here we collect our favorite odes to the Big Apple. There are thousands of songs about New York, but only a select few are timeless. They celebrate that iconic skyline, but aren’t afraid to descend to the gutter. They are songs of triumph and heartache, success and failure, love and loss. A great New York song is tapped into the rhythms of the city and well aware of the incredible wealth of human experience happening simultaneously across its expanse. Like movies and books centered around the Big Apple, the best New York songs are by artists who understand the things that make NYC great and horrifying are one and the same. ![]()
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