A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.
I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.
I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have a ton of N.Y.C. in my DNA, from both sides of my family. I had a wonderful childhood in the city.
I've always just considered myself a New Yorker, you know.
I've always essentially been a New Yorker.
I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.
I'm an upstate New York lifer.
I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.
I was born in New York.
I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.