235 Best New York Instagram Captions (Short, Puns + Quotes)

Looking for the best New York Instagram captions for your NYC photos?

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Whether you’re visiting the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Grand Central Station, Times Square, or all the cute neighborhoods in between… you’re bound to take lots of pictures on your New York travels.

In this post, I’ve put together funny New York puns, quotes, song lyrics, and short caption ideas to perfectly compliment your photo dump!

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Short New York Instagram Captions

1. Once upon a time in New York…

2. Postcard from New York.

3. Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s New York.

4. The city that never sleeps.

5. New York is always a good idea.

6. Enjoying every New York minute.

7. Welcome to the concrete jungle.

8. I want to live as many lives as there are in New York City.

9. City Girl.

10. Always say yes to New York.

11. Breathing in The City.

12. Shining brighter than Times Square.

13. New York, New Me.

14. Anything is possible, this is New York.

15. From New York, with love.

16. I followed my heart, and it brought me all the way to New York.

17. I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.

18. Dear New York, I will never get over you.

19. Exploring the concrete jungle.

20. Greetings from New York.

21. Sleepless nights and city lights.

22. I left my heart in New York.

23. Just a little fish in the Big Apple.

24. A New York love affair.

25. You’re going to make it happen. This is New York.

26. Big City Energy.

27. I was made for New York.

28. Let the city set you free.

29. Either you love New York, or you are wrong.

30. The sky’s the limit.

31. I’d rather be in New York.

32. Just here for the sleepless nights and skyline views.

33. New York will put a spell on you.

34. Late nights and bright lights.

35. New York City is where your wildest dreams come true.

36. Meanwhile, in New York…

37. Relationship status: in love with this city.

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38. Sunsets over the New York skyline just hit different.

39. You can leave New York, but it will never leave you.

40. The city of dreams.

41. You can leave New York, but it will never leave you.

42. New York isn’t just a place, it’s a feeling.

43. Take me to New York.

44. You can’t stop New York City.

45. Pizza. Skyscrapers. Broadway. Love.

46. New York, here we come.

47. These lights will inspire you.

48. Meet me in New York.

49. All you need is love and skylines.

50. New York is always on my mind.

51. No sleep til Brooklyn.

52. Keep calm and go to New York.

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

54. New York is a 24-hour city that never stops.

55. Hello, New York. You’re looking beautiful as ever.

56. Today’s mood: New York.

57. Someone tell Gossip Girl I’m here right now.

58. New York is always in my mind.

59. My life didn’t begin until I got to New York.

60. Central Park dreaming.

61. New York is calling and I must go.

62. I’ve got 99 problems, and a trip to New York solves them all.

63. In love with New York.

64. Who needs therapy, when you can go to New York?

65. Follow me to New York City.

66. You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket to New York. And that’s basically the same thing.

67. No sleep and city streets.

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

69. Oh, New York.

70. Someone asked me for directions, so you can call me a real New Yorker.

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71. True happiness is a weekend in New York.

72. New York City or bust.

73. I fell in love: her name is New York.

74. Follow your heart, even if it takes you all the way to New York.

75. New York state of mind.

76. I went to New York to be born again.

77. Taking a bite out of the Big Apple.

78. New York is the city that other cities can only dream of being.

79. Wanderlust and city dust.

80. Living that NYC life.

81. New York, New York. A city so nice they named it twice.

82. Empire State of mind.

83. I swapped stars for skylines.

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

85. I came, I ate, I conquered.

86. You can take the girl out of The City, but you can’t take The City out of the girl.

87. New York stole my heart.

88. Any day spent in New York is a great day.

89. New York is always on my mind.

90. Pizza and coffee.

91. Home is where the heart is, and my heart is in New York.

92. New York isn’t just a place, it’s a way of life.

93. See you in The City.

94. New York way of life.

95. Current aesthetic: New York City.

96. You can find my heart where I left: in New York.

97. New York always sounds like a great idea.

98. I love you like New York loves skyscrapers.

99. Find me in New York.

100. Let’s get lost in New York.

101. It’s a New York thing, you wouldn’t understand.

102. Life is better in New York.

103. Endless adventures in New York.

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104. New York City is the place to be.

105. You had me at New York.

106. This city is my happy place.

107. Today’s good mood is brought to you by New York.

108. Gone to New York, be back never.

109. If you need me, I’ll be in New York.

110. Meet me at the Brooklyn Bridge.

111. Found my happiness in New York City.

112. NYC vibes.

113. A perfect day in Central Park.

114. There’s no place like New York.

115. Lost in The City.

116. Just another day in New York.

117. Another day, another subway.

118. Made in New York.

119. Looking for the best pizza in New York.

120. Blinded by the lights.

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121. These views couldn’t be any NYCer.

122. Saw the Statue of Liberty today- it’s a boat time.

123. First Time-rs Square.

124. I’m so glad we Met.

125. I really lake Central Park.

126. Stop Yankee-ng my chain.

127. Winter in NYC is snow joke.

128. Arch you glad you’re in New York?

129. Queens for a day.

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

131. Catch me if you cab.

132. New York’s street art is very ad-mural-able.

133. Living the High Line.

134. Such a brew-tiful day in the city.

135. Spill the Liber-tea.

136. There’s only so much you cannoli do in Little Italy.

137. I don’t think you’re Dumbo.

138. Having a Grand time in Grand Central Station.

139. I think I’ll just Central Park myself down on this bench for the day.

140. More like Empire Great Building, am I right?

141. It’s Broadway, or the highway.

142. Found Wall Street- that’s some bull.

143. Winter in New York makes a great frost impression.

144. Everything in New York is so pitcher perfect.

145. Soho you doin’?

146. New York stole a pizza my heart.

147. I’m gonna be frank. I love New York hot dogs.

148. Slice, slice baby.

149. I love New York a latte.

150. MOMA money, mo problems.

151. I’m pretty Plaza-tive.

152. Ferry on my wayward son.

153. I plead the Fifth Avenue.

154. I wanna get a slice of the action.

155. Somehow, subway.

156. I can’t stop talking a-boat New York.

157. Getting coffee in New York is just part of the daily grind.

158. Dear New York, words cannot espresso how much I love you.

Short New York Quotes For Instagram Captions

159. “New York has romanced me unlike anything else.” – Blake Lively

160. “Give me the streets of Manhattan!” – Walt Whitman

161. “People never forget two things: their first love and their first day in New York City.” – Unknown

162. “I love New York.” – Hillary Clinton

163. “New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

165. “This isn’t a fairytale. It’s New York City.” – Alex Flinn

166. “When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.” – Jimmy Breslin

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

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

169. “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” – Georgia O’Keefe

170. “As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.” – Pearl S. Buck

171. “When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.” – Ryan Adams

172. “You haven’t lived until you died in New York.” – Alexander Woollcott

173. “Things always change and New York teaches you that.” – Richard Hell

174. “New York to me means the world.” – Donna Karan

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

176. “New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.” – Truman Capote

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177. “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

178. “London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.” – Dorothy Parker

179. “Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.” – Joan Didio

180. “The diversity, the food, the culture, the constant change–New York City is truly one of the most inspiring places on the planet.” – XXMK

181. “The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes.” – Pete Hamill

182. “If you’re greedy for life, that’s what New York is all about. If you’re trying to get as much as you can every day, this city is the place to be.” – Pam Nelson

183. “More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the brightest, the biggest is the norm.”- Marilyn J. Appleberg

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184. “A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.” – Le Corbusier

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

186. “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”- Tom Wolfe

187. “It’s pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you’re in the capital of the world.” – Timothy F. Cahill

188. “You can do what you like, sir, but I’ll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.” – Edward Rutherfurd

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

190. “There’s an inherent energy in New York City that it’s famous for. It makes you want to get up and do a million things all day and stay up all night.” – Unknown

191. “Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.” ― Dorothy Parker

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192. “Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough.”- John Steinbeck

193. “If a man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.” – Arthur C. Clarke

194. “Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.”- James Baldwin

195. “If you want to become a real New Yorker, there’s only one rule: You have to believe New York is, has been, and always will be the greatest city on earth. The center of the universe.”- Ellen R. Shapiro

196. “I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.” – Anita Weiss

197. “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike

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198. “Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don’t want to go home in the dark.” – O. Henry

199. “Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window – no, I don’t feel how small I am – but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.” – Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

200. “There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.”- Amy Poehler

201. “New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: oh, that’s who I am.” – Delia Ephron

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202. “Skyscraper National Park” – Kurt Vonnegut

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

204. “There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.” – Elbert Hubbard

205. “Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.”- Johnny Carson

206. “The flag of New York City should be someone with four bags opening a door with their shoulder.”- Alex Baze

207. “Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.” – Ed Koch

208. “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”- Fran Lebowitz

209. “You can try to change New York, but it’s like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up. There’s nothing you can do.”- Liz Lemon

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210. “On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.” – Lewis Grizzard

211. “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

212. “New York is a sucked orange.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

213. “I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.” – Rick Riordan

214. “New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don’t know what the hell the rest of the United States is.” – Henry Ford

215. “Something’s always happening here. If you’re bored in New York, it’s your own fault.” – Myrna Loy

216. “Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” – Angela Carter

217. “The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich.” – Sophie Frances

New York Movie & TV Show Quotes

218. “When I first moved to New York, I bought Vogue instead of dinner. I just felt it fed me more.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

219. “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

220. “And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.” – Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

221. “Here we are Marv. New York City, the land of opportunity.” – Harry, Home Alone 2

222. “I love New York City…you’re never alone but you’re always on your own.” – Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl

223. “I’m staying! You hear that, New York? The frog is staying!!” – Kermit the Frog, The Muppets Take Manhattan

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

225. “Anything is possible. This is New York.” — Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

226. “My father told me we was all born of blood and tribulation, and so then too was our great city.” – Amsterdam Vallon, Gangs of New York

227. “You’re a New Yorker, that won’t ever change. You got New York in your bones. Spend the rest of your life out west but you’re still a New Yorker.” – James Brogan, 25th Hour

228. “I’m at the corner of 1st and 1st… How can the same street intersect with itself? It must be at the nexus of the universe.” – Cosmo Kramer, Seinfield

New York Song Captions

229. “Welcome to New York, it’s been waiting for you.” – Taylor Swift, “Welcome to New York”

230. “Times Square can’t shine as bright as you.” – The Plain White T’s, “Hey There Delilah”

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

232. “I’m in a New York state of mind.” – Billy Joel, “New York State of Mind”

233. “Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams. Baby I’m from New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There’s nothing you can’t do. Now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new. Big lights will inspire you. Hear it for New York, New York, New York.”- Alicia Keys & Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind”

234. “Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now! History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be in the greatest city in the world!” – Hamilton

235. “Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting? Autumn in New York, it spells the thrill of first-nighting.” – Billie Holiday, “Autumn In New York”

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