160 Hilarious, City-inspired Instagram Captions for the Year 2024 in NYC

There’s no place like New York City. From the bright lights of Times Square to the iconic Central Park, there’s always something to see and do in the Big Apple. And with so much to explore, it’s no wonder that NYC is one of the most popular destinations for Instagrammers.

If you’re planning a trip to New York City, or if you’re just looking for some inspiration for your own Instagram posts, check out these 160+ NYC captions. Whether you’re looking for a funny caption or a heartwarming quote, we’ve got you covered.

So what are you waiting for? Get ready to start ‘gramming your way through the city with these great NYC captions.

NYC Captions

1. The big city never sleeps.
2. There is no better idea than New York.
3. Any dreams can be possible in New York.
4. Happiness is when your ticket says “New York”!
5. How I wish I live many lives in New York.
6. New York City please don’t leave me.
7. New York is a land where living and dreaming meets.
8. Find me in New York.
9. You can meet me in New York.
10. This city lights are starting to blind me.
11. A jungle of survival and luxury, that is New York.
12. New York is calling me. 
13. Sleepless nights and city lights.

NYC Instagram Captions

14. I will not leave New York, I won’t give up on my dreams.
15. Let’s live like there is no tomorrow in New York.
16. Living the New York City vibe.
17. If there is one thing I will never get over of, it is New York.
18. The best thing about New York are the misunderstood people.
19. Have you witnessed the greatest sunset in the world? You can find it in New York’s skyline.
20. If you want to feel like you are in a movie, try walking down the streets of New York.
21. I feel like completely a different person here in New York. It feels like I belong here.
22. Welcome to New York. It has been waiting for you.
23. You will never get bored in New York. If you do, it is your fault.
24. When you leave New York, you’re astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. But clean is not enough.
25. I don’t like cities, but I like New York.

NYC Captions for Instagram for Girl 

26. I think I am a gossip girl now.
27. “Someone tell Gossip Girl I’m here right now.”
28. “It is a fact of big cities that one girl’s darkest how is always another’s moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.” – Anna Godbersen
29. “I love New York City…you’re never alone but you’re always on your own.” – Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl
30. Glitters and sparkles, nice nails, and expensive makeup, that is how I describe New York.
31. I bet New York requires every girl to have nice shiny things. 
32. Wanderlust and city dust.
33. New York City is my goal.
34. My dream is to be a strong independent woman in New York.
35. “Go on and try to tear me down. I will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper.” – Demi Lovato, “Skyscraper”
36. “Each neighborhood has it’s own beauty & idiosyncrasies that spark creativity.”
37. I am a New York City bitch.
38. I am a girl from New York and we do not keep calm.
39. This girl was made to live in New York.
40. I always fall in love with cities I have never been to and people I have never met.
41. This girl is a big city lover.

New York Quotes

42. “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” – Georgia O’Keefe
43. “New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. “It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” – Agatha Christie
45. “I’m in a New York state of mind.” – Billy Joel
46.  “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” – Simone de Beauvoir
47.  “This isn’t a fairytale. It’s New York City.” – Alex Flinn
48.  “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
49.  “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
50. “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” – Simone de Beauvoir
51.  “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
52. “The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich.” – Sophie Frances
53. “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

New York Captions

54. Dear New York, thank you for making me feel brand new.
55. Take me to New York and make me new.
56. Hello New York, nice to meet you!
57. In New York, anything is possible.
58. There is no bad day in NYC.
59. The best days of my life are spent in New York.
60. New York life is always a good idea.
61. I left my mind and heart in New York City.
62. Who does not like to be in the Big Apple?
63. Late nights and city lights.

New York Sayings 

64. “The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes.” – Pete Hamill
65. brightest, the biggest is the norm.” – Marilyn J. Appleberg
66. “Each man reads his own meaning into New York.”
67. “In New York you’ve got to have all the luck.”
68. “New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.”
69. “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
70. “New York is not even a city, it’s a congeries of rotten villages.”
71. “New York is the only real city-city.”
72. “Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.” – Irving Berlin
73. “More than anything else New York is a city of superlatives, a place where the best, the “The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.”
74. “It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.”

City Captions

75. “City of stars, are you shining just for me?” – “City of Stars” from La La Land
76. “A concrete version of paradise.” – Marisa Casciano
77. “Hello city, your lights are fireflies in my heart.”
78. Go where your heart beats.
79. Go where you feel most alive.
80. We live in a city where our dreams come true.
81. I saw sidewalks like runway of dreams.
82. Big city, bright lights, and tired bodies.
83. City dust and rush hours.
84. I fell in love, his name is New York.

New York Slogan 

85. I Love New York
86. State of opportunity
87. New York- land of the free and home of the brave!
88. The city that never sleeps
89. Window to the New World
90. New York: It’s All Here
91. NEW YORK LIVES!
92. You’re right it does stink. New Yorkers are a filthy breed.
93. I’m in a New State of Mind
94. The Big Apple!
95. New York is For Lovers
96. Come to the original U.S. Capital! New York!
97. Come to New York, home of the first urban park in the U.S.
98. Dreams really do come true in New York

New York Puns

99. Did you know that New York stole something from me? It has stolen a pizza my heart.
100. Queens for today.
101. Wham! BAM! Thank you ma’am.
102. Let’s get ice cream in Coney.
103. New York looks terrible in the morning, but I guess that’s because it’s the city that never sleeps.
104. I’m so glad we MET.
105. Stop Yankee-ng my chain.
106. Do you lake to live at Central Park?
107. The cold in New York is snow joke.
108. A trip to New York takes quite a bit of dough.
109. Spill the Liber-tea.
110. Don’t get in a Tiff-any’s.
111. A trip to NYC can be very taxi-ing on your wallet.
112. Finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. It’s a boat time!
113. First Time-rs Square.
114. Who had this Brighton idea? 
115. Staten Island floats my boat.
116. The views from the Empire State Building couldn’t be NYCer.
117. The street art in New York is very ad-mural-able.
118. New York hot dogs are total weiners.
119. There’s only so much you Cannoli do in Little Italy.
120. In winter, NYC is the city of tights.
121. I’m gonna be frank. New York has tasty hot dogs.
122. Slice, slice baby.
123. To tell you FRANKly, New York has the tastiest hotdogs.
124. Taking a bite out of the Big Apple.

New York Funny Quotes

125. …For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. – Evelyn Waugh
126. “New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.” – Russell Baker
127. In New York, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That’s why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car. – George Carlin
128. “New York City is a tourist trap I don’t mind being in.”
129. Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. – David Letterman
130. “A bad day in New York City is still better than a good day anywhere else.”
131. The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. – Douglas Adams 
132. “Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.” – Johnny Carson
133. “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

Short Quotes About New York

134. “I’m having an affair with New York.”
135. “My life didn’t begin until I got to New York.”
136. “Bike like a New Yorker.”
137. It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. – Agatha Christie
138. All the critics love you in New York. – Prince
139. New York is not a city. It is a world. – Iman
140. New York City was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world. – Susan Ertz
141. I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.” – Frank Sinatra
142. Welcome to New York. It’s been waiting for your. – Taylor Swift
143. Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan! – Walt Whitman
144. “When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.” – Jimmy Breslin
145. “Don’t you love New York in the fall?” – Nora Ephron
146. “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike
147. “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Tom Wolfe

Love New York Quotes

148. “When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.” – Fran Lebowitz
149. “New York to me means the world.” – Donna Karan
150. “People never forget two things: their first love and their first day in New York City.”
151. “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Truman Capote
152. “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” – Nora Ephrom
153. “I love New York.” – Hillary Clinton
154. “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

Time Square Captions

155. “I want Times Square!” – Betty Who
156. L.A., it’s nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps. – Jimmy Fallon
157. You can’t stop traffic on Times Square. – Sydney Pollack
158. “It’s hip to be in Times Square.” – Unknown
159. From time to Times Square
160. I love spending quality Times Square together.
161. For people who mourn for old Times Square – hey, there’s a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them! – Kurt Braunohler
162. It’s not in my character to enjoy Times Square
163. My favorite restaurant in NYC is Thymes Square
164. Once Upon a Times Square
165. Everyone loves to feast their eyes on Times Square on New Year’s Eve. – Kimberly Guilfoyle