I've only been living in NYC for a short while, but even just for as long as I've been here, I've learned to act a certain way in my day-to-day life.
New Yorkers tend to stay in their own little world more often than not. Just this morning, I thought about how there is no other situation in which it would be acceptable to be nose-to-nose with another person than on a morning or evening commute.
If I stood as close to someone in line for coffee as I did to the person next to me on the train this morning, I definitely would have gotten some very strange looks.
But it's just something that I've grown accustomed to at this point in my life as a New Yorker.
Another mannerism that's become normal is to not really acknowledge the other people around you. You don't really say hello or smile at people because, let's be honest, if you smiled at everyone you saw on a normal day in the city, your cheeks would be sore by the end of the day.
When a man named Oscar Collazos was riding the train at 1:30 a.m. one night, he witnessed something that no one really sees much of these days.
This is what he had to say about what he saw, "The entire time from West 4th to 135th, every single person — all complete strangers to each other — participated. Black, white, brown, male, female, old, young, gay, straight, democrat, republican, you name it, they played. Everyone was happy, and I wish the world saw more of this."
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