You can also sing Sinatra's 'New York, New York'
Take note: to be a true New Yorker…
1. DRESS IN BLACK
No matter the time of year. The coats are black and the flip-flops too.
two. NEVER LOOK UP
Yes, that hoodlum face that stares at the skyscrapers outside.
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3. DON'T LOOK ANYONE IN THE EYES
Try it on the subway, no matter how hard you stare at them, they won't look back at you. Sometimes they do and then...
Four. SMILE UNEXPECTEDLY. WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A REASON TO SMILE.
When you enter a store, when you leave a store, when you grab the subway bar at the same time as him/her. The New Yorker is polite level Zooey Deschanel . You'll even make some conversation. Then the thing about establishing a deeper friendship… it only happens in the movies.
5. ALWAYS GO BY SUBWAY
Never by taxi (only at dawn and because you know the high risk of falling asleep on the subway and appearing in Coney Island). “A true New Yorker knows the subway is faster,” as Lily said in How I Met Your Mother.
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6. OR WALKING
A real New Yorker likes to walk: "It's only 30 blocks." You don't have to take a bus the pro new yorker never rides the bus Unless he has an average age of 80 and is as heavy as Ted Mosby.
7. NOW YOU CAN ALSO GO BY BIKE
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8. NEVER YELL "A RAT!"
Don't even look out on the subway tracks to see it. Don't even jump when they pass you by like sparks when crossing a park.
9. DON'T BE AFRAID OF COCKROACHES
Even if they are the size of a rat.
10. NEVER GO TO TIMES SQUARE, ROCKEFELLER PLAZA AND SURROUNDINGS
(not even when they light up the tree and put on the skating rink, No ) . Don't go to the bull of Wall Street either, to Wall Street in general (unless you work there, of course). Also don't take the ferry to Staten Island if you don't live on Staten Island. And no, don't go up the empire state . There are many rooftops in the city with better cocktails.
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eleven. IF YOU HAVE TO GO TO THOSE PLACES, YOU HAVE TO BE AN EXPERT DODGING TOURISTS
You only share with visitors: Central Park (“The Park”) and the High Line . But you know when to go and where to go to avoid tourists. If necessary, you will even take the subway to Central Park to run there. And you come back after running on the subway (and you stop to do the shopping, nothing happens) .
12. NEVER CARRY OR LOOK AT A MAP
not even subway . Of course you will not open it in the middle of the street. And if you look at it, do it out of the corner of your eye, on your mobile, behind the scenes. A true New Yorker knows how to get from X to Y without help.
13. NEVER PICK UP A DELIVERY FLYER ON THE STREET
Be polite and smile, but not too much.
14. GET IN LINE ANYWHERE AND FOR ANYTHING THE NEW YORK TIMES, N_EW YORK MAGAZINE_ OR THE NEW YORKER SAY IS COOL
Queue up for the cronut. The true New Yorker doesn't make reservations, because they won't let him, and because he doesn't mind waiting between an hour and an hour and a half at the door of the latest it restaurant, with the coolest chef, with the weirdest food. Also queue for hours (many hours) for the latest fashion show in town.
fifteen. NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT THE COLD
Because the winter of 15 years ago was really cold.
16. DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THE HEAT
Same reason as with the cold. And because you don't mind suffering below zero temperatures with the air conditioning. What's more, you like it.
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17. SAY (LITERAL PRONUNCIATION FOR A SPANISH) “JAUSTON”, WHEN YOU REFER TO HOUSTON STREET
It is not pronounced like when you say "Jiuston, we have a problem". This is another Houston.
18. YOU DON'T SAY 'NORTH' OR 'SOUTH'
It's Uptown or Downtown.
19. DO NOT WEAR HEELS
Well, maybe you can carry them in your hand or in that enormous bag mandatory in the city uniform . But to walk "30 blocks" or go up and down the subway stairs, you prefer sneakers, the craziest ballerinas you have or flip flops.
twenty. TALK FAST, GO FAST, LIVE FAST
And poor you if you don't walk as fast as the 'pro' New Yorkers.
twenty-one. LEARN TO WALK FAST WITH A COFFEE IN HAND
Always a coffee in hand. Staple food in your diet, along with bagels and pizza.
22. EAT ANYWHERE. ANYTHING.
**At lunchtime**, for dinner he queues where the New York Times sends. But at noon or when leaving work, he eats wherever he wants: standing in the subway car, at the movies, on a park bench, or at St. Trinity Cemetery , on the steps of the Public Library, or at those cute tables in the plazas along Broadway. Also on a poyete between scaffolding . Appropriate settings for a food truck kebab, hot dog or salad.
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23.**NOT SURPRISED TO PAY $7 (OR MORE) FOR A BEER AT A DIVE BAR**
But you also know all the happy hours in your neighborhood.
24. HAVE YOU SEEN WOODY ALLEN
And not because you paid over $100 to see him at the Carlyle. Back to our city gurus: "You're not a real New Yorker until you've seen him" , according to Marshall in How I Met Your Mother.
25. AND WHEN YOU SEE HIM OR ANY OTHER FAMOUS, DON'T LOOK AT HIM
Don't point at him, don't ask for a photo, don't follow him, don't turn around to check that it was him.
26. ASK FIRST WHERE THEY LIVE
To get an idea of his 'roll' and, incidentally, of his bank account.
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27. YOU KNOW THAT THE BEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD IS EATED IN NEW YORK
There are few things a New Yorker is more proud of than the $1 (and you shouldn't pay much more) slices of pizza on any street corner.
28. AH, AND HE EATS WITH HIS HANDS
Folding the slice in half, stuffing yourself full of fat, no knife and fork (hey, Bill de Blasio).
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29. YOU KNOW NEW YORK IS THE BEST CITY IN THE WORLD
Above the pizza The proudest thing a New Yorker feels is New York . But you don't go around saying it: you know that others know it. We know.
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*Report published on January 15, 2014 and updated on October 30, 2017 with video.