Fact or Myth: Top 7 Misconceptions About New York

Mick LED in the column for iPhones.ru shared his observations about New York. In his opinion, many common beliefs about the city turned out to be myths. It's not quite what we think it is. Or even not at all.

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Myth: pigeons, which are worse than rats, have flooded New York and now shit everywhere - there is no passage from them.

Fact: The author of the article for three days in Manhattan did not see a single pigeon - even taking into account the fact that already in the evening piles with bags of garbage grew on the roadside.

Homeless

Myth: the homeless are everywhere in New York - they walk with an outstretched glass for change, block the road and reach anyone.

Fact: Met the only homeless man in Manhattan, and he was in clean clothes - he looked cute from his hut in Times Square, although after San Francisco, the capital of vagabonds, was expected to see more.

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Broadway

Myth: Broadway is a symbol of the American Dream, a street with bright lights and signs, where stars and happy people.

Fact: only a sign helps to understand that you are on Broadway - this is an ordinary street with scaffolding and Chinese shops, ordinary people walk along it, not stars, and Madison Square turned out to be much more interesting.

Architecture

Myth: Manhattan is made up of skyscrapers that block out the sky and the sun.

Fact: on the way from the John F. Kennedy airport, you can see the most ordinary five-story buildings, gray trees and road forks - why not Moscow? And only when he was in Soho, the author saw many skyscrapers. But all of them are harmoniously "diluted" with two- and three-storey buildings, parks and alleys.

Traffic jams and signaling machines

Myth: there is a huge stream of cars in New York, they are constantly honking, which can make you go crazy.

Fact: indeed, there are many cars, but they all move continuously: although taxis constantly drop off passengers, the flow of cars does not stop.

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Metro

Myth: the New York subway is a hotbed of infection and a place for the poor.

Fact: metro is a theater where you can see enough of different characters: the author drove 18 stops in the New York subway and managed to see different characters - funny, funny, original.

“I've seen enough of everyone, including immense African-American women dancing gospel music right in the carriage, a stoned rastaman arguing with an invisible interlocutor, and a completely amazing black youth who, with a rapper's signature accent, glued to some Latin girls, using bad language with might and main,” writes Sid ...

Weather

Myth: it is always sunny and warm in New York, and we have winter - 9 months.

Fact: in fact, the weather in New York is no different from that in Moscow. The author was in the season of changing cold to nasty rains. On the road there were still gray drifts of unmelting snow. The same wind, the same rains, people also get wet to the skin.

The only true fact

The people of New York, their tolerance, politeness and smileiness are the only fact that did not turn out to be a myth. Everyone is polite, sorry. The author believes that in such an environment, any person becomes more tolerant and shows miracles of politeness. In his opinion, what should be learned from the Americans: be more welcoming and polite.