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Aren't they so cute? It feels like I'm living in a movie set with hoards of people snapping photos of my building, my block, the streets, where I grocery shop, etc.
Today, I even had a group of tourists ask if I was a NYer and if so, could they could take a picture of me. LOL
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When my daughter was little (7 or 8 yrs old) - she had very long hair (to her thighs) and thick and curly. One day we were approached by a group of Japanese tourists who were fascinated with her hair and asked us if they could take pictures.
Very true. I see annoying tourists every day in front of my building. Apparently many of them have never seen a good looking, well behaved dog before because they constantly take pictures of my dog when we walk him. Sometimes they ask, sometimes they do not. And they always want to pet him. They stop to ask as a ton of questions. I recently started taking the back door of my building on the way to work and from work just so I don't have to fight my way through the hoard of tourists invading the front street.
When I worked on Broadway in Soho I always found a lot of lost tourists asking for directions along grand street. Also, when I attended school at 40th and 7th I had a lot of people ask me where Times Square was.
When I worked on Broadway in Soho I always found a lot of lost tourists asking for directions along grand street. Also, when I attended school at 40th and 7th I had a lot of people ask me where Times Square was.
Aren't they so cute? It feels like I'm living in a movie set with hoards of people snapping photos of my building, my block, the streets, where I grocery shop, etc.
Yes! I live in a classic West Village walk-up and virtually every other day there are people photographing the building or taking photos of themselves on the stoop, acting like they live there.
It really was. Apparently a lot of people think there is some kind of sign that says "Times Square" also they think it is an actual square shape. Someone also asked me "where the new year begins"
Well it IS basically a giant movie set. To most people, New York is a glamorous and magical far off distant place that only exists on TV and in the movies. Most of the world only gets to see it temporarily and for a short period of time so it remains very surreal to them since they're only used to seeing it on TV.
We're just used to it so we don't see the same things that other people see. Our eyes are so desensitized to all the craziness and it's just normal to us. When tourists see an NYPD car, they immediately think they're in some kind of movie and it's hard for them to reconcile in their mind that they somehow have been sucked into this surreal dimension. It's just like being a Starwars fan and suddenly being thrown on to one of the spaceships or far off planets and seeing R2D2 and C3PO casually walk by like everything is normal. It's really no different. My first instinct would just to be gazing at everything in disbelief, walking slow, taking pics and just being in constant bewilderment - no different than most first time tourists to NY.
The interesting question is how do New Yorkers react as tourists in other cities/towns/countries? Maybe it's because New York has desensitized me, but I can't ever get into that gawky /camera happy mode. I think my boyfriend took a few shots in Boston once because of the architectural details on some things were stunning and he's a big building buff, but we never took couple shots either in front of anything important.
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