Word: yorkerism
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...projects - except shorter and with even less purpose - these pseudo-spontaneous gatherings began in June in New York City, and spread quickly across America before making their way to Europe (Rome, to be precise) on July 24. The mobs were the idea of Bill, a twenty-something New Yorker who says only that he works in the "culture industry." Bill doesn't want to be identified because he thinks that would detract from the mob's appeal. Interested in the social reasons people go to see performing arts, he began to ruminate on what would happen if the performance were...
...deluge of questions from other interns in my office and Harvard friends about New York this summer only decreased my confidence in labeling myself a true New Yorker. “What’s a casual/hip/fun place to eat in the West Village?” “How do you get to the MOMA in Queens?” “Have you ever been to Bungalow...
...first month in the city, however, just left me questioning even more not only if I could justly be considered a life-long New Yorker, but also if I wanted to be. A stalled subway car and a crabby bus driver put me off of New York’s famed public transportation system. The slow-moving crowds on my morning walk down Wall Street left me wishing for an expansion of Central Park...
...just when I began to imagine myself hopping into a car to get a carton of milk—instead of walking around the corner—a fantastic building scandal made me realize that I had been looking for the soul of New York (and my New Yorker soul) in all the wrong places...
...soul is in the fluctuating mass of people that continue to wander its noisy streets and inhabit its cramped apartments. That is why, no matter how much the city’s physical shell will change, I have always been and will always be a New Yorker...