New York Essentials
If a New Yorker allowed you to peek into their hand bag or wardrobe, here's what you can expect to find (and why):
Noise canceling headphones. This is a noisy city- people talk loud, some sing to themselves louder than the song they are listening to, subway escalators and trains creak and shudder, those hulks at the gym be slamming the weights all the time. I know people who sleep at night with ear plugs, to block the blaring ambulance noise.
Being rain ready. That means rain proof shoes and duh, obvious, umbrella. Check the weather app before you step out coz rain gods may feel like play anytime. Though the fearsome one is the one that presides over the winds here. If it's windy your umbrella won't really help. The winds will conspire to make sure that you get to taste the rains and you can literally count till 20 before your umbrella turns over. Maybe 30 if you bought it for $30 and in similar linear upward trend.
Being walk ready. Atleast in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Here people mostly take the subway and walk about quite a lot- for coffee, food, in general or work (in that order). They love to walk. Wear comfy walking shoes. Girls, nobody really cares if you aren't in matching heels. Only few $200 per person high end dining places may send you home for that.
Finally, let's get hyper local. If you could peek into a New Yorker's phone, these are some of the apps that most will have. Yelp- to find best rated and reviewed coffee shops, bars, restaurants around you. Seamless-for restaurant food to be home delivered. Venmo- for money transfers to friends etc. for say when you split the bill over drinks. And I'll throw in another one that I use, Ritual. A food ordering app for 'to go', so you pick up your food yourself but skip that dreadful line at Starbucks, Shake Shack et al.
Feeling New York ready yet?
Noise canceling headphones. This is a noisy city- people talk loud, some sing to themselves louder than the song they are listening to, subway escalators and trains creak and shudder, those hulks at the gym be slamming the weights all the time. I know people who sleep at night with ear plugs, to block the blaring ambulance noise.
Being rain ready. That means rain proof shoes and duh, obvious, umbrella. Check the weather app before you step out coz rain gods may feel like play anytime. Though the fearsome one is the one that presides over the winds here. If it's windy your umbrella won't really help. The winds will conspire to make sure that you get to taste the rains and you can literally count till 20 before your umbrella turns over. Maybe 30 if you bought it for $30 and in similar linear upward trend.
Being walk ready. Atleast in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Here people mostly take the subway and walk about quite a lot- for coffee, food, in general or work (in that order). They love to walk. Wear comfy walking shoes. Girls, nobody really cares if you aren't in matching heels. Only few $200 per person high end dining places may send you home for that.
Finally, let's get hyper local. If you could peek into a New Yorker's phone, these are some of the apps that most will have. Yelp- to find best rated and reviewed coffee shops, bars, restaurants around you. Seamless-for restaurant food to be home delivered. Venmo- for money transfers to friends etc. for say when you split the bill over drinks. And I'll throw in another one that I use, Ritual. A food ordering app for 'to go', so you pick up your food yourself but skip that dreadful line at Starbucks, Shake Shack et al.
Feeling New York ready yet?
How about weed delivery, what's the NYC app for that? 👍
ReplyDeleteWell, that is more discreet. But CBD oil and products (gummies, CBD in coffee, in cigarettes) is legal in NYC and can be found very easily in stores. Starbucks may also be introducing CBD in their coffee soon!
DeleteDefinitely a noisy city - especially midtown! I have to sleep with earplugs and my noise cancelling headphones are a wardrobe essential. Headphones, not heels.
ReplyDeleteyep, the apartments not facing the road work better for sound sleep ;)
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