Nine Years On

So Far and Yet So Close

So what's the deal with New Yorkers exaggerating the distance between everything?

The other day I went uptown and asked a hot dog vendor the way to Amsterdam Avenue. He pointed it out to me but said "It's at least a 30-minute walk, you'd better take the subway". 5 minutes later I was there.

I remember a similar incident happened last year in Midtown. when I complained about it to a New-York-dwelling friend of mine she said "Oh, but the avenues, they tend to be really far apart". My cousin suggested that, because I was asking for directions, they assumed I was a tourist and wasn't used to getting around on foot.

I thought this city was the American capitol of walking everywhere. What gives?

Because the World Needs Another New York Blog

Time: the Present

Place: New York City, Greenwich Village, just south of Washington Square

Protagonist: Loyal Achates, beginning his M.A. Program in International Relations at New York University

Argument: How to distinguish this blog from the thousands of others chronicling urban life in the United States?

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