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Originally Posted by valo403
Where the heck were you?  In 2+ years I've seen 3 rats, 2 in the subway and one in a lumber yard in a shady area of south Chelsea.
And NYers in general aren't rude, we're just in a rush most of the time. There are a lot of hard exteriors to people here, it sort of comes with the amount of interaction, but if you ask for directions or need a hand with anything you're more likely to find yourself having to choose which advice to follow from the 4 people who will offer to help.
As for the subway, the weekend can be a pain due to construction, but you can always get to pretty much everything. If a whole line shuts down for any period of time it's big news (as happened with the 7 train recently) and it's incredibly rare. You'll never have an issue getting around Manhattan and there are numerous lines (there's no such thing as a 'main line'), reaching out to the boroughs can be a bit harder but is still easy relative to getting around Calgary.
The Natural History Museum is great, definitely worth the trip, but there are tons of different museums if you're into something else. The Met is incredible, I often swing by right before closing (when it's free) and spend 20 minutes in a few rooms. (BTW the Met is part of Museum Mile, the southern most museum actually, the Natural History Musueum is on the other side of the park). The MoMa is pretty cool, it's not just bizarre modern art either (although there's currently an exhibit that involves squeezing between 2 naked people in a hall), the exhibit on product design is really cool as is the area on furniture. In the museum category there's something for everyone to enjoy. |
Dude, rats everywhere by. By Columbia university, 2 on the platform at the same time 42nd ST on a saturday, another dashed in front of me a block off Wall St, etc.
As for NYers not being rude, I guess it's not fair to classify them all as such but honestly speaking I've met nice NYers only 3 or 4 times I can recall. Even bus drivers are rude, I know it's a big city and people are in a hurry and the tourists are annoying but NYers still come across that way.