New York Fucking City (New York Fuckin’ City)

“New York Fucking City” (or “New York Fuckin’ City”) has been printed on many gift items, such as T-shirts and hats. The saying can have various meanings—that New York City is “fucking amazing” or that New York City is a rough place where people like to curse.
 
“New York fucking City!” was cited in print in 1979. The “New York Fuckin’ City” T-shirts have been sold since at least 1996.
 
 
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The Silver Ghost
By Chuck Kinder
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1979
Pg. 193:
The Big Apple, amigo. New York fucking City!
 
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Time Out New York Guide
Fourth Edition
New York, NY: Penguin Books
1996
Pg. 84:
‘NEW YORK FUCKING CITY’
So this is New York today: a place busily conducting a battle with itself.
     
Google Groups: alt.drunken.bastards
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2/22/96
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I went into the first t-shirt shop on the block and picked out a very suitable t-shirt for the occasion.  It was black and had huge white letters that said NEW YORK FUCKIN CITY on both sides.  How very appropriate.
   
Google Groups: uk.local.london
Martin Sewell
11/16/00
(...)
Alistair Mann:
“I’m in London form Nov 22 to 29 now. Can we do it then? I have a “New York Fucking City” tshirt to wear! [1]”
   
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Engaging Men
By Lynda Curnyn
Don Mills, Ont.: Red Dress Ink
2003
Pg. ?:
This was New York Fucking City, after all.
   
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Fat Chance
By Deborah Blumenthal
Don Mills, Ont.: Red Dress Ink
2004
Pg. ?:
When I see someone wearing a T-shirt that says New York Fucking City, it always makes me laugh.
 
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Between the Assassinations
By Aravind Adiga
New York, NY: Free Press
2008
Pg. 272:
He passed rows of baby shoes, bras, T-shirts bearing the words NEW YORK FUCKING CITY, fake Ray-Ban glasses, fake Nike shoes and fake Adidas shoes, and piles of Urdu and Malayalam magazines.
 
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Fallen Idols:
Lacrimae Rerum
By Leonard Schulman
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse
2012
Pg. 216:
Jackhammers are tearing up the street below. Hundreds of transit construction workers. Thousands of New Yorkers going about their busy lives. Buses are honking. It’s New York fucking City—as the T-shirts proclaim—top of the world, and my friend Ja,es Wilde is dying.