This is the Brooklyn portion of the NYC Subway map.

[Brooklyn101]

The subway map shows Brooklyn at an angle that is offset from north so that Manhattan can be shown in a neato straight up/down vertical way on the map – yes, Manhattan wasn’t lined up by Mother Nature perfectly north to south…shockingly!!!

It is because of this subway map being offset and the fact that people continuously fail to read the key to this map that they think that the R line ending on the bottom left of this map is South Brooklyn.

This is a map of Brooklyn with north being at the top of the map.

[NYC]

The neighborhood with the number 10 in it is where the R train ends and if you view the two maps for a minute you’ll notice just how much of an offset there is on that first map. 

While the section of Brooklyn labeled 10 is definitely in the southern portion of Brooklyn it is by no means SOUTH BROOKLYN as it is not the original South Brooklyn and it not being the furtherest south you can go in Brooklyn…oh and you know the little fact that it is the FURTHEST WEST you can go within Brooklyn. 

If anything the area designated 10 might be considered WESTERN BROOKLYN.

The original area called South Brooklyn sits way up in the NORTHERN side of Brooklyn – up in the two areas numbered 6 on the map.  This is because the original town of Brooklyn was much smaller geographically than the modern borough that Brooklyn is.  

South Brooklyn was originally, ya know, south of Brooklyn.

Yet people hear “Bay Ridge” and think aloud (constantly), CAN’T GET ANY FURTHER SOUTH IN BROOKLYN!!!  THAT’S AS SOUTH AS YOU CAN GO!  NOW THAT’S SOUTH BROOKLYN FOR YA!”

(Yes, I need a country home.)

Having an apartment in NYC will mean that you most likely have a common or shared hallway with numerous other people on your floor.  These are meant to be used as common access to and from elevators, garbage rooms and emergency staircases.

These common hallways share a plethora of scents, curry, fart smells and sometimes garbage. 

I can take the scents of the common hallway, but what I cannot take is people leaving their personal items out in the hall!!!

Usually people leave their umbrella out there when they come in, but others, and I shudder at this…will leave their shoes outside of their door!!!

Apartments usually have an uncommon hallway that leads inside to the living portion of an apartment, these uncommon hallways afford plenty of space for umbrellas, shoes and just about anything else that one would keep in a hall.

The only thing you can do when it comes to people leaving things out in the hallways is just shake your head in disgust.  You’re never going to win them over to having common respect of the hallway…or you could always just drop your neighbors shoes down the garbage chute, but that isn’t recommended.

Living in NYC normally allows a person to dress and do whatever they want legally without being looked at as being odd.

Unfortunately, not everyone appreciates people being warm – especially in winter! 

It saddens me that I cannot wear my big, comfortable and WARM Russian hat in public without getting looks left and right – everyone is a lookie loo with this hat.

I can’t lead an anonymous life while being warm in the winter because of this!

So, if you want to remain warm in winter, it is best to cover your face completely - 100%.

Living in NYC means that from time to time you will notice famous people out and about in their daily lives.  You might want to say hello or wish a good morning to them or just say thanks for always giving you pleasure with their films or music – but that isn’t proper in NYC.

For some uncertain reason there is an unwritten rule as to what is proper in dealing with famous people in NYC – mainly, you are supposed to notice them while pretending that you don’t know who they are.

Say you spotted Average Joe who you don’t really know because he might work in a different department as you, or say you just notice him everyday on the subway but you know the face – you might just say “Hi” and have that be that for the length of the conversation, or, say you are at the supermarket and spot the lady from the dry cleaners there, you might be friendly and exchange a “Hey, How are you?” with her.

That would be the friendly thing.  That would be the proper thing to do in those situations.

When someone says hello to famous people in NYC it is usually looked at as poor etiquette by most, and yet buying a famous (and rich) person a drink or treating them to a meal that they eat by themselves is considered proper.

It’s a strange world - thankfully when you see famous people you can just ignore them, or say hello if you chose, or do this…(let us pretend that we see Pete Townsend)  Be loud and obnoxious and say things like, “I’m not Pete Townsend, I’m his brother Keith Townsend” over and over – cause life is all a game in certain ways.

Everything about NYC revolves around being located in the best possible location – whether the location be the proximity of your apartment to your job, a subway line, restaurant, parks, avenue – everything lives and dies by the location that it is given.

Unfortunately the geographical location of the City of New York itself leaves much to be desired – meaning that no matter where you have your apartment, that park, that business, that anything, it’s in a crappy location.

This is due to the fact that the location of NYC gives the city four seasons – most of which are worthy enough of extreme hate.

• Spring, which makes most people sneeze, but isn’t all that bad.
• Summer, which is extremely hot to the max, which is made worse by all of the asphalt and buildings to the point that walking outside feels like a volcano just landed on you.
• Autumn, which stabs a chill through everyone whose just got regulated to the excessive heat of the summer time.
• Winter, which casts a never ending blanket cloud of gray over the city while stirring up winds and frost that makes traveling to and from anywhere to be a most miserable experience.

Best course of action to all of this is to live somewhere else.  If you like the cold, move to a cold place, if you like good whether, move there, and if you like excessive heat live on top of a lava flow.