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Ksenia Norris (pictured above)<\/strong> I see you\u2019re from Toronto. What\u2019s the chatter about the United States there these days?<\/strong> Any gripes with your trip?<\/strong> Laurie Raymond<\/strong><\/p>\n Ph.D. student, Chamb\u00e9ry, France<\/p>\n Oliver Duic<\/strong><\/p>\n Server, Nanuet<\/p>\n Working at a pizza place, have you become a bit of a pizza expert?<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, I personally like to get a side of tomato sauce and then dip my crust in it after I\u2019m done eating my pizza. It\u2019s like a mini-breadstick that comes with the pizza. It\u2019s so good, especially with Sicilian slices.<\/p>\n Balakrishna Chandra<\/strong><\/p>\n IT manager, Edison, New Jersey<\/p>\n Brillonne Comlan<\/strong><\/p>\n Nanny, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n Malia Owens<\/strong><\/p>\n Kindergartner, Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n Artem Deykun<\/strong><\/p>\n Payroll analyst, Barcelona, Spain<\/p>\n Has anything about New York surprised you?<\/strong><\/p>\n What surprised me is the trash. Trash in the street. I mean, maybe it\u2019s a bad surprise.<\/p>\n Luar Wong<\/strong><\/p>\n General manager, Miami, Florida<\/p>\n Brianna Withers<\/strong><\/p>\n Nanny, Charlotte, North Carolina<\/p>\n Do you come to New York often?<\/strong><\/p>\n I come twice a year to visit my friend Mon\u00e9t, who lives in Harlem. We usually spend the day going to museums we\u2019ve already been to. That\u2019s what I prefer to do here. I\u2019m a museum girl, and I really like to hit up MoMA.<\/p>\n Aishwarya Saxena<\/strong><\/p>\n Teacher and content creator, Jaipur, India<\/p>\n Evgeniia Murashkina<\/strong><\/p>\n Data-entry clerk, Coney Island<\/p>\n Andre Flora<\/strong><\/p>\n Engineer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/p>\n Mon\u00e9t Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n Attorney, Harlem<\/p>\n Do you like practicing law?<\/strong><\/p>\n No two days are the same, which I like. I also enjoy the mentorship aspect. A lot of students who went to Howard or Cornell, where I went, have reached out to me for advice on pursuing law. It feels really good that I can be that person for them now. If it wasn\u2019t for the students I looked up on LinkedIn, I probably wouldn\u2019t have gone to Cornell.<\/p>\n Leticia Coimbra<\/strong><\/p>\n Aesthetician, Boston, Massachusetts<\/p>\n Charisma Montfort<\/strong><\/p>\n Chief procurement officer, Sunrise, Florida<\/p>\n What\u2019s life like in Miami right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s becoming more and more expensive. People can\u2019t afford to live there. You can see the clear distinction between the haves and have-nots. If I go to a bar or want to stop at a happy hour, I see less and less people. People are bracing themselves.<\/p>\n Jayamma Chandra<\/strong><\/p>\n Homemaker, Racheruvu Rajupalem, India<\/p>\n Andressa Costa Barbosa de Lima Carneiro<\/strong><\/p>\n Lawyer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/p>\n Aditya Saxena<\/strong><\/p>\n Estimating consultant, Jaipur, India<\/p>\n Zulema Godinez<\/strong><\/p>\n Guidance-support specialist, Imperial Valley, California<\/p>\n How\u2019s your trip going?<\/strong><\/p>\n Amazing, amazing. I\u2019m here for 14 days. I\u2019ve been walking around on Fifth Avenue and also going to Times Square and visiting the Statue of Liberty. We took so many tours that took us around the Bronx, Brooklyn, Soho, and Dumbo. We visited that Little Island and Chelsea Market. It\u2019s my first time in New York.<\/p>\n \n Photographs by Frankie Alduino\n <\/p>\n Thank you for subscribing and supporting our journalism. Want more stories like this one? Subscribe now<\/a>
Project manager, Toronto, Canada<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard not to pay attention to Trump \u2014 he\u2019s pretty loud. Yet when walking around New York, I didn\u2019t hear anyone talk about the mayoral race. It\u2019s like no one brought it up. In Canada when there are elections, you see signs everywhere: on the lawn, the grass, the highway. You hear it. I didn\u2019t even have the feeling that an election was happening here.<\/p>\n
My biggest pet peeve is the subway. You\u2019ve got to work on it. Just make a nice subway, make it clean, make it make sense, make the stations appealing, and it\u2019s going to go smoother in the city. I\u2019m telling you.<\/p>\n
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