New York, New York, NYC, The Big City…
I was in college when I visited New York for the first time. I was meeting John Larena, my buddy, partner in crime, and tour guide. I remember flying over the city, seeing the density, the towers, my pulse raced with anticipation…and instantly fell in love with the city.
At Yarn, we analyze video and make “smart timelines”. We fold in a wide array of information to inform our deep search algorithms. Some location hints come from speech to text analysis, others from image recognition. This data can then be searched for and displayed in a variety of interfaces.
Here’s a quick subject search for “New York” in Yarn. There are a lot. We have are over 2,500 references to “New York” in movies, tv shows, and music videos. I’ll show a few samples of Yarns containing “New York” and some other common nicknames below.
“New York”, Madagascar
“NYC”, How I Met Your Mother
“New York City”, The Godfather
“The Big City”, She’s Out of My League and Master of None
“Gotham”, although not expressly from NY. NY is sometimes referred to as Gotham. Here is Arnold in Batman & Robin
“The Five Boroughs”, Ghost Busters
“The Melting Pot”, Jay-Z and Alicia
“The City That Never Sleeps”, Jessica Jones
“The Big Apple”, Kimmy Schmidt and I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
“The Capital of the World”, well not exactly the same, but in Cocktail it’s the “Saloon Capital of the World”.
“New York, New York”, Drop Dead Gorgeous
People also love to sing about “New York”, here are a few references from music videos.
Sting, Englishman in New York
Sinatra, New York, New York
Pet Shop Boys, New York City Boy
Bee Gee’s, Nights on Broadway
