"New York City is a panic attack on Houston and Essex, it’s a broken down Q train, it’s a 45 minute schlep to work. New York City is finding yourself in your friend’s ex-girlfriend’s most recent ex-boyfriend’s apartment, it’s a roof in Brooklyn, it’s a bar in the East Village. New York City is a fake ID that expired 3 years ago, it’s an $8 show that changed your life, it’s a kitten found in a box 2 blocks from the office. New York City is a text message that was never responded to, it’s a photo pass to your favorite concert, it’s free drinks on a ship in mid-July. New York City is being in love with everyone you see, it’s a cup of coffee that makes you crazy, it’s your friend putting lipstick on you outside the venue 10 minutes before the show. New York City is platform shoes, it’s a pair of Converse, it’s taking a couple of Advil when you get home. New York City is thrifted treasure, it’s a stoop sale that saved your life, it’s the best cup of cocoa chai you’ve ever had. New York City is a sweaty room full of BK’s hippest, it’s missing an opportunity only to get another, it’s a lot of anxiously waiting. New York City is realizing your dream, it’s passing your current boss’s girlfriend on campus, it’s an iChat that got sent to the wrong person. New York City is a library full of tired kids, it’s a brownstone full of addicts, it’s a dorm room full of outsiders. New York City is a laugh attack in a quiet room, it’s a crick in your neck, it’s a stack of vinyl in your desk drawer. New York City is a walk to the waterfront, it’s an endless conversation, it’s 4 cups of tea in one work day. New York City is a revelation, it’s an exchange of words with the nicest stranger, it’s a never-ending beginning."
Instead of studying for finals, I wrote my own:
"New York City is crying on a windowsill on the 16th floor looking down at the city, it's the goddamn Q train that never comes on your side of the tracks, it's 45 minutes packed like sardines on the L train at 6pm, it's the smallest big city in the world, it's a rooftop view of the Manhattan skyline from Crown Heights, it's knowing all the bouncers and doormen in the Village, it's shitty fake IDs that are never rejected, it's a free 21+ show where the PR girl snuck you in from a side door, it's dog parks. New York City is meeting a guy at a bar and never texting him back, it's being able to see so many concerts for free, it's free drinks on your favorite promoter's bill. New York City is falling in love 5 times in one day because the people are just so goddamn beautiful, it's a $2 perfect cup of tea that you waited 15 minutes for, it's convincing the bathroom attendant to let you and 3 of your friends in at once. New York City is the perfect pair of comfy 6 inch heels, it's always wearing heels, it's taking Advil at 7pm because you got wasted at Happy Hour. New York City is paying $20 for a $200 pair of shoes at a thrift store in BK, it's finding amazing street art, it's a the perfect cup of mango green tea in Chinatown. New York City is squeezing into Baby's All Right with all of the other hipsters in BK, it's thinking you lost something irreplaceable but finding something even better, it's a lot of extremely anxiously waiting. New York City is finally finding yourself, it's passing a guy you never texted back on the street, it's a text message you know you'll never send. New York City is a library full of kids on adderall, it's a beautiful row of brownstones you'll never be able to afford, it's a dorm room full of nervous, fresh-faced freshmen. New York City is a laugh attack with your roommate at 1am in CVS, it's dealing with a broken leg in the city, it's a collage of pictures torn out from a $1 Christies art catalog from 1930 on your wall. New York City is a walk to the Williamsburg pier on a perfect Sunday afternoon with a cute boy and his dog, it's staying up all night discussing random shit with your fwb, it's surviving on granola bars. New York City is growing up fast, it's seeing a New Yorker doing something nice for once, it's realizing you'll never be able to compare living here to anywhere else."
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