You Know You're a New Yorker When...

You...

Have a job and a side "business"

Have a job and two side "businesses"

Have a maiN business and other goals on top of on that

Think there aren't enough hours in one day

Don't mind taking the subway but cabs are way Easier - longer and more expensive - but easier

Get nostalgic when an indie biz is replaced by a Starbucks,
yet you can't remember the last time you went into said indie biz

Avoid Times Square like the plague

All your friends are sure they're the shit

Too much quiet seems strange after a While

Get a good daily laugh at the tourists who hail off duty cabs

Find the smells in the citY almost unbearable in the Summer
and can't understand why the tourists can't smell them

A $2,000 a month studio sOunds like a fair price

Think you're the only one who knows about the cool bar "you found"

Totally understand why cab drivers lose it sometimes and let them vent

Sleep with eaRplugs and can't sleep without them

Love the city

Hate the city

Don't thinK rats are that big of a deal anymore

Know you're getting ripped off by an $18 cocktail, yet you order it anyway and give a tip

Love when tourists ask you for directions and you givE them way more detail than they need

Surprised by Pastis closing
Not surprised by Pulinos closing

Get freaked out when you accidentally lock eyes with someone you pass on the street

Avoid the Meatpacking District like the plague

Can be touching body to body to someone on the subway and completely ignoRe them at the same time

Lastly...you know you're a real New Yorker when you've lived in the city for at least ten years, 

that is the rule.

Astoria

Coppelia restaurant, West Village

West Village

-Fabiola Conrado, #NewYorker, #NewYork, #WestVillage, #Astoria, #FreedomTower, #EmpireStateBuilding, #GuggenhiemMuseam