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town on its way around the country, or world. need to go
to the company headquarters? It's probably in new York.
• Beauty. San Francisco is more beautiful, not to mention
Paris and Rome and probably Istanbul and Barcelona,
too. But new York has its fair share of beauty, beginning
with gorgeous brownstone buildings, skyscrapers like the
empire State Building, and the year-long magnificence
of Central Park. on a more prurient level, there is also
no shortage of beautiful people to gawk at, especially on
a warm day.
• Welcoming. Someone once described new York to me as
the world's most exclusive club that literally anyone can
join. You don't have to have been born in new York to be
a "new Yorker." If you know how to order a sandwich, negotiate
the subway, not block the sidewalk, talk about real
estate to strangers, laugh about Post headlines, complain
about the weather, exercise basic taxi etiquette, tip properly,
help a stranger with directions, and stop to cheer the
Meetles in the Times Square subway stop, you're a new
Yorker. It doesn't matter if you're originally from Lahore
or Santo Domingo or Hamburg or Addis Ababa, or if
you've been in the city for two years or your whole life.
new York can be intimidating to the uninitiated, sure.
But once you get settled, learn your way around, you'll see
life here for what it really is: a gift.
http://www.quora.com/l/boq-matt-schiavenza
visiting new york city
What are good tips for hailing a
taxi in Manhattan?
Max Cohen, BFA, MBA, CAB, Web Visionary
I drive a yellow cab. Here are some tips to the tourist, the new
Yorker, and the tourist that thinks he's a new Yorker.