NYQ<\/a>, a series in which we find out how \u201cNew York\u201d notable New Yorkers really are.<\/p>\nHow many years have you lived in New York? <\/strong>45 years.<\/p>\nYou could make one subway etiquette rule law \u2014 what would it be? <\/strong>Don\u2019t put your bag on an empty seat.<\/p>\nHow would you get from City Island to the Morgan Library? <\/strong>Taxi.<\/p>\nSomeone bumps into you on the subway \u2014 what do you do? <\/strong>Apologize.<\/p>\nYour train line is down and you are running late \u2014 what do you do? <\/strong>Get out and walk if it\u2019s close or hail a yellow cab.<\/p>\nSomeone tries to hand you a flyer on the street \u2014 what do you do? <\/strong>I take it and thank them.<\/p>\nSomeone tries to get you to film a TikTok on the street \u2014 what do you do? <\/strong>Oh, I keep walking.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a blinking red light and you\u2019re about to cross \u2014 do you wait it out till it says walk or are you crossing? <\/strong>No, I cross. Obviously.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s your area code? <\/strong>212.<\/p>\nYou are on the Upper East Side and need to have dinner ASAP or you\u2019ll pass out. Where do you go? <\/strong>Nicola\u2019s, on 83rd Street and Lexington.<\/p>\nCan you get in quickly? <\/strong>I used to be able to when I lived up there. I don\u2019t know about now.<\/p>\nYou have family coming to town in 24 hours \u2014 what do you do with them on short notice? <\/strong>I go to Central Park; I go to Hudson River Park.<\/p>\nWould you rather transfer trains or walk farther? <\/strong>Walk farther.<\/p>\nSomeone says the rats are actually cute \u2014 what\u2019s your honest response? <\/strong>I think they\u2019re cute.<\/p>\nDo you call Manhattan the city or just Manhattan? <\/strong>I call it the city.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s the longest you\u2019ve waited on a subway platform? <\/strong>Probably the longest I\u2019ve waited is eight minutes.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s the most you\u2019ve ever paid for a coffee in New York City? <\/strong>I get coffee at the deli, so probably two, three dollars.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s something a tourist does that you secretly still do? <\/strong>I take water taxis around the island. I go to Weehawken and I go to Hoboken. There\u2019s one that goes around the Statue of Liberty.
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Do you own a car? <\/strong>Yes, I have a car.<\/p>\nHave you ever admitted that out loud? <\/strong>I wrote about that car in national magazines.<\/p>\nBedbugs or roaches? <\/strong>Bedbugs, because you can just buy a new mattress.<\/p>\nBedbugs or rats? <\/strong>Rats.<\/p>\nMake a sound you associate with NYC. <\/strong>The bus sound. I love the sound of the buses. It\u2019s like a lullaby.<\/p>\nHow would you do the New York City accent? <\/strong>I don\u2019t think New York City has an accent. Well, unless you\u2019re talking about the outer boroughs. I recently read that the New York accent is the second sexiest accent in the country, right after southern.<\/p>\nSexiest New Yorker? <\/strong>Jon Hamm. No, but I love his wife, so I\u2019m gonna say his co-star James Marsden.<\/p>\nWhich is worse: Dimes Square or Hudson Yards? <\/strong>Hudson Yards.<\/p>\nHave you ever gotten a piece of furniture off the street? <\/strong>Yes, recently a girlfriend and I got a flower planter off the street.<\/p>\nWhere do you go to cry? <\/strong>Battery Park City.<\/p>\nBest New York celebrity sighting? <\/strong>When I was 16, my two friends and I came to New York to find Robert Redford and we went to Rockefeller Center \u2014 and we did!<\/p>\nName the fakest Realtor-invented neighborhood. <\/strong>Fidi.<\/p>\nYou know you\u2019re a New Yorker when \u2026 <\/strong>When you stay in New York on the weekends in the summer.<\/p>\nI\u2019m old enough to remember when \u2026 <\/strong>The tall ships coming in for the bicentennial in 1976.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s a place that closed that you wish you could bring back? <\/strong>Bungalow 8.<\/p>\nEvery New Yorker should do what at least once? <\/strong>Staten Island Ferry.<\/p>\nHow much do you pay when you go to the Met? <\/strong>I don\u2019t go.<\/p>\nHow many times have you moved in New York City? <\/strong>Nine.<\/p>\nWhich was the worst move? <\/strong>Probably when I lived on Park Avenue and I moved down to the West Village.<\/p>\nHave you ever fallen asleep while in an audience? <\/strong>I did, for the first time ever, a month ago, with a friend of mine. I regretted it, but I did nod off.<\/p>\n
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