The Ritual of Looking Up In New York

December 1, 2008 | Written by Andrew Mastrandonas

There are age-old ways that reveal whether a pedestrian in New York City is a tourist. The accountant from Wichita, with kids in tow, has a map in hand trying to find the Bronx Zoo. The secretary from Switzerland with English as her second or third language looks with considerable difficultly at the street signs trying to figure out if she is in SoHo. A suburbanite from Connecticut is trying to find MOMA. He asks a barely... [Read more]