New Yorkers notice out-of-towners most when they walk slowly, eat abysmally, spend lavishly, and treat the place we live as a walk-in diorama. But we should be glad they keep wanting to come, writes JDavidsonNYC
Ambassadors to and from the rest of the world. Photo: Konstantin Sergeyev I grew up in a tourist town. My friends and I laughed at the benighted foreigners, who spoke loud, grating English and sounded out street signs with all the comical awkwardness of first-graders. Also like children, they were distracted by inconsequential details and oblivious to deeper glories.
New York State retaliated by hiring the legendary designer Milton Glaser, who produced the “I ♥ NY” logo that launched a million T-shirts. That declaration turned the city into a destination and tourism increased, impervious to the fact that crime did, too. So completely had the city’s image changed that even the crack era’s body count, which peaked in 1990, didn’t dissuade foreign visitors.
Fortunately, curmudgeonliness is not the norm. New Yorkers fan out all over the world, and the people we encounter usually forgive us our numbers and cultural clumsiness. We generally do the same for them. New Yorkers long ago outgrew our reputation for dead-eyed hostility. We are, on the contrary, inveterate givers of advice.
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