The name New York New York comes from New which means new, newish, novel, from York which means York, and from New York which means New York.
For some time now, the city of New York New York has been home to a growing number of writers, many of whom are well known. Recent studies tend to suggest that these writers owe a part of their fame to the fact that they live in New York New York. By virtue of the fact that living in New York New York would be an asset for anyone aspiring to make a name for himself in literature.
It must be noted that writers from New York New York may or may not write books that take place in New York New York, that talk or don’t talk about New York New York, but, in any case, seem to gain from having been written in New York New York. In return, the writers of New York New York don’t write so much about New York New York as much as in favour of New York New York, or for the sake of New York New York.
As brief as they might be, the biographies of local writers never forget to mention this: ‘lives and works in New York New York.’
As for foreign writers, about whom a word must be said: whatever their country, region, town, rare are those who have never mentioned the city. The name New York New York has this quality of being adaptable to any language, any dialect, any accent. It’s been the object of translation in just about all of the living languages.