Every city has its peccadillos – New York is no exception. Here within are a few of the city’s quirks:
1) The subway – okay for starters, you need to know if you’re going Uptown or Downtown. When you do, you need to enter the subway on the correct street corner. Unlike the London Underground, where at every stop you can walk across an adjoining platform to change direction to go north/south, east/west, not every station in New York has this. Good times.
2) Elevator time – calculate an extra five to ten minutes for that elevator ride to your meeting. I was going to the fifteenth floor of a building, it stopped on almost every floor. Yes, I was ten minutes late. Lesson learned.
3) Pizzas are called pies. What do they call pie? Yummy, I guess.
4) Another favorite… addresses are not always where you think they will be. For example, I was going to an address on Park Avenue but the entrance? It was on a cross street. How on earth anyone would know this, the first time they are in New York, is beyond me. I figured it out, but still do not get the logic.
My New York Note Book 