Ah, summertime in Manhattan.
Ask anyone who has spent countless summers in New York, and they'll tell you everything they hate about it--the way your clothes stick onto you the moment you leave your apartment, the replacement of all natives by at least two tourists, etc etc. Basically the supposedly unbearable combination of heat and lost visitors makes them want to flee the city. They love talking about how they hate new york in the summer--how could you like the humidity? the crowds? the dirt? But, they all take it for granted. You have to learn to enjoy those, if at least in small doses. Like, the momentary warmth you feel between the time you leave the air-conditioned lobby of your office and the one where you feel your clothes stick...that, to me, is summer. And it's lovely.
I don't even try to avoid that second component of every new yorker's nightmare...the crapload of tourists with their slow walks and big maps and midwestern accent. It relaxes me to walk a block away from my office during lunch and immerse myself in the sublime Americanness that is Times Square.
Ask anyone who has spent countless summers in New York, and they'll tell you everything they hate about it--the way your clothes stick onto you the moment you leave your apartment, the replacement of all natives by at least two tourists, etc etc. Basically the supposedly unbearable combination of heat and lost visitors makes them want to flee the city. They love talking about how they hate new york in the summer--how could you like the humidity? the crowds? the dirt? But, they all take it for granted. You have to learn to enjoy those, if at least in small doses. Like, the momentary warmth you feel between the time you leave the air-conditioned lobby of your office and the one where you feel your clothes stick...that, to me, is summer. And it's lovely.
I don't even try to avoid that second component of every new yorker's nightmare...the crapload of tourists with their slow walks and big maps and midwestern accent. It relaxes me to walk a block away from my office during lunch and immerse myself in the sublime Americanness that is Times Square.
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