New York magazine came out with their Reasons to Love New York 2008 a while ago. So naturally, I proceeded to go through the whole list–and I loved it. They also posted a list of reasons readers sent in.
A couple readers’ reasons I particularly liked:
-”Because people act surprised when you hold doors for them.”
-”Because it’s best place to earn one- sentence stories to amuse friends and family back home. Like: ‘I was at a hipster dance party and some flailing NYU student accidentally punched me in the eye.’”
What’s your reason to love New York?
I was on New York magazine’s website and I came across this article. They basically went up on strangers with laptops in Starbucks and asked them for the sentence they were currently working on. I thought this was really cool.
I’m always wondering about things like that when I’m in a public place–what they’re working on, what music they’re listening to, what book they’re reading, if that’s actually a work email they’re typing on a BlackBerry, etc. The coffee-shop exercise would also be a fun one to do with music (”Hey, I don’t know you, but what song are you listening to?”)
