Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(drugs) an imaginary brand of marijuana, silver/white because its seeds have grown in darkness, after being flushed away into the sewer system.

1975		Psychology Today Nov. 126/2: A recent variation on the alligator story is the legendary ‘New York white’ strain of marijuana growing in the same prolific sewer system.
1981		Omni Oct. 12/2: I must protest your assertion that the strain of marijuana known as New York City Silver is a rumor.

(US) an instant.

1830		J. Pickering Emigration or No Emigration 93: If you wish to retain a seat [in a bar] do not get up from it even for a ‘York minute’.
1870		Leavenworth Bulletin (KS) 12 July 4/3: Pleasure seekers try to fly from one end of town to the other in about a New York minute.
1873		Chicago Trib. 5 Jan. 2/4: He raised the old rifle and fired. In one fourth of a York minute [...] all the clothes upon him would not have made a bib for a china doll.
1885		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 19 Dec. 7/1: It [a variety of punch] is calculated to drive dull care away in less than a York minute.
1927		Wash. Post 20 Apr. 6: [headline] The New York Minute. Yale’s world-round reunion by radio on Wednesday will show what New York is. The speech of President Angell at noon in New York, put on the air for loyal listeners wherever they may be, will reach Honolulu at 6 a.m. Wednesday and Tokyo at 2 a. m. Thursday. Twenty hours difference! A few brief minutes of time at New York thus become nearly a whole day when spread around the earth. If that doesn’t prove the intensity of life in the metropolis, what does?
1954		Galveston (TX) News 15 Aug. 22/5: Betty Jean Bird of the Pirate Club has what she claims is the smallest French poodle in the nation ... It’s no bigger than a New York minute and that’s only thirty seconds.
1982		L.L. King Best Little Whorehouse in Texas [film] I could close this place in a New York minute.
1992		R. Price Clockers 497: I’ll go call him [...] get you set up in a New York minute.
1996		(con. 1949) G. Pelecanos Big Blowdown (1999) 242: You stick around here another city minute, you’re gonna get stuck for sure.
1999		Forbes 5 May 🌐 Trying to unload a batch of 64 MB memory chips? Cavallaro will find a buyer in a New York second.
2000		C. Cook Robbers (2001) 278: He’d kill you in a New York second.
2000		Guardian Editor 21 Jan. 19: In a New York minute I would go back.
2007		C. Goffard Snitch Jacket 79: You’d be porking Lady Skeletor in a New York minute.
2022		J. Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 248: She look at me form a New York minute an goes [etc].

kippers.

1910		Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 3 Aug. 4/1: He had no breakfast as the 'New York Nippers' were burnt up to a 'Bertha Winder' and the 'treacle' ('treacle toffee' - coffee) was stone 'Harry' ('Harry Gold' - cold).
1932		‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl.
1960		J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
1999		H. Van Hoof ‘Etudes Terminologiques et Linguistiques’ Meta XLIV No.2 🌐 Les noms de pays, de nationalités, de régions et de localités sont fréquemment appelés à remplir cette fonction: Abergavenny et Kilkenny (pour penny) [...] New York nippers (pour kippers).

(US drugs) 100 vials of crack cocaine.

2002

Simon & Burns ‘One Arrest’ Wire ser. 1 ep. 7 [TV script] I got enough to turn a New York quarter.

(orig. US) a spiced, heated sausage or frankfurter, served on a split roll and garnished, trad. , with ‘rags and paint’ (sauerkraut and mustard).

2002

T. Parker ‘Fan Encounters with Gary Busey’ Lisa’s Unofficial Gary Busey Page 🌐 I heard a strangely familiar voice behind say, ‘Put your money away, friend. Only morons and tourists pay a buck fifty for a New York tube-steak.’.