This is the scene I see every morning on my way to work. I’m on the Manhattan Bridge, leaving Manhattan for Brooklyn- how wrong is that. It’s like leaving Chili for Tamika Foster.
Downtown Manhattan looks so beautiful under the blue sky, if you look closely (on the left), you can see the Statue Of Liberty beyond the Brooklyn Bridge, all the way down the harbor.
Try not to go shopping around the first of the month. Supermarkets jack up their prices around that time because they know there’s going to be an influx of people shopping using the money they received from government benefits (Social Security and Welfare, unempliyment is weekly, etc.) The best time to shop is between the 10th and the 20th. This one might apply to the whole nation, not just New York, but I can’t speak for them… Damn, I gotta go shopping this weekend.
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Why don’t people move all the way in to the train car when they enter? People are so preoccupied with quickly getting out at the train stop, they don’t realize they’re creating a bottleneck at the doors, slowing down the train. ‘Realize’ isn’t the right word, people who do that know exactly what they’re doing, it’s cocky New Yorkness at its core. People block the doors because they want to be the last in the car, the one that leans against the doors and they’ll be first to get oiut at their stop.
It can be so funny sometimes when the areas around the doors look like the huddle masses of Ellis Island, but at the center of the car me and three friends are doing the Electric Slide.
I was just in a train car where I was unable to move for 110 blocks, but the guy jumping for Jesus in the center of the car was walking in circles….and I couldn’t even do anything about it because I was stuck (Earth Wind And Fire’s three songs played round and round and I couldn’t do anything about it.) Besides, I wasn’t that eager to hear rhetoric before 9 anyway.
Yup! Like the title says: “free;” there are still some things you can get in New York City without shelling out any beans. Most banks have little coffee areas in their main lobbies, I know Bank Of America, HSBC and Chase usually do it- up until about 1 pm, also. Don’t worry about it not being your bank or not having an actual debit card. Just walk to one of the ATM machines, swipe your metrocard and intently stare at the welcome screen for about 30 seconds, look frustrated and walking away. Then take your cup of coffee and call it a day.
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