the sorrows of your changing face

[averseortwo]

New York is a new city every day. There are neighborhoods within neighborhoods. Curry Hill is a mere two blocks containing at least sixteen different Indian restaurants. Little Brazil is a sliver of a side street tucked inside the ever-sprawling Times Square. The Chess District is just two stores staring angrily at each other from opposite sides of

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Re: I meet people who have lived in New York their whole lives and feel sorry for them.

[anonymous]

> New York is something you must earn, not something you must be given.

Native New Yorkers earn the city all the same, we just do it earlier. That day you finally believe you've mastered the subway is the same whether you're twelve or twenty-four. Your first apartment in the city is still your first apartment in the city.

A lifetime in New York is earned even if you learn the city like breathing, knowing nothing else. It's not something you can do in a month or a year, here or in any other city.

"It'd take a lifetime to know Brooklyn through and through, and even then, you wouldn't know it all." --Thomas Wolfe

Re: I meet people who have lived in New York their whole lives and feel sorry for them.

[averseortwo]

Who are you?