![]() And if it wasn’t already ubiquitous, its beat blaring from the radio in almost every corner store, last month Keys issued her own version on her new album and has been regularly performing this salute to the aspirations of native New Yorkers.įor the last three decades, Frank Sinatra’s " New York, New York,” from the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb, has ruled as the city’s sentimental favorite - in ballparks, at weddings and to signal determination. The song “Empire State of Mind” was the biggest hit at Yankee Stadium this fall, and then, just days before Jay-Z turned 40, it gave the rap legend his first No. ![]() It has been nearly impossible lately to surf the radio without hearing Jay-Z rapping about his gritty-to-glamorous ascent in the big city as Alicia Keys swoons about the “concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
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