Top 15 Modern Day Songs About New York

| No. | Song | Artist | Album | Year |
| 1 | M79 | Vampire Weekend | Vampire Weekend | 2008 |
| 2 | L.E.S. Artistes | Santogold | Santogold | 2008 |
| 3 | NYC | Interpol | Turn on the Bright Lights | 2002 |
| 4 | Janine | Soul Coughing | Ruby Vroom | 1994 |
| 5 | Next Exit | Interpol | Antics | 2004 |
| 6 | Macy's Day Parade | Green Day | Warning | 2000 |
| 7 | Broadway | Low | The Great Destroyer | 2005 |
| 8 | 6th Avenue Heartache | The Wallflowers | Bringing Down the Horse | 1996 |
| 9 | Broadway | Old 97's | Too Far to Care | 1997 |
| 10 | The World I Know | Collective Soul | Collective Soul | 1995 |
| 11 | Strange Powers | The Magnetic Fields | Holiday | 1994 |
| 12 | Little Faith | The National | High Violet | 2010 |
| 13 | Amity | Elliott Smith | XO | 1998 |
| 14 | New York, I Love you but you're Bringing me Down | LCD Soundsystem | Sound of Silver | 2007 |
| 15 | Leaving New York | REM | Around the Sun | 2004 |
| Posted on 5/12/11 by the Rock Czar |