Being a city kid was pretty damn great.
Your field trips were here. Also, you laughed at the stupid tourists who paid the full ticket price. Real New Yorkers know it's donation-based.
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You saw this everywhere. (But had no idea what it meant.)
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You hung out at the Chelsea Piers bowling alley because they served beer and their method of "checking IDs" was to inspect your credit card. Or library card. Any type of card, really.
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Cabs looked like this: boxy.
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