New Yorkers

Yes, you can tell them a lot, but you can’t tell them what to do, or they don’t listen. Stubborn, unintimidated creatures. They will hold that they are a subdivision of the populations set apart by their brazenness and sense of New York cool. Or so they say

In the rites of passage through the day, feeling lucky not to be hit by a cab, riding the morning subway packed with lunch-bagged children, pulled too early from bed doing homework, the largest rolling public school in the nation, passing a Chinese woman rehearsing her voice on Broadway in the sun, watching selfie-crazed crowds in Macy’s flower show and everything is 30% off. Befriending someone you know from work at a local wine bar, diving into a show or a movie just for mental health.

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

“This is the city of dreamers and, time and again, it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed”