Growing up in NYC, I realized that a person could never be bored living in a place as amazing as New York. I have lived in New York my entire life, and yet I can proudly say that I can always find places I have never been to. I hadn’t really ever put any thought into how exciting the city really is, until I met my friend Nina, who has grown up in Long Island but now has a dorm in the city. When she first moved to the city, she was so excited and would tell me things she discovered every day.
I remember how she hated the subway at first and was like “How do you stand so close to strangers, doesn’t it scare you?” Me, I am used to being squished next to strangers in the morning commute to school, so for me it’s no problem, it’s one of the things you learn to get used to in New York. To an outsider, the subway system is complete chaos, but like Jane Jacobs said about her neighborhood, I think of the morning rush hour commute as a ballet. With hundreds of people getting on and off the train, walking in sync with one another, never missing a single beat.