What I'll Miss

Things I’ll Miss About New York

• Art
• Friends
• The Brooklyn Bridge
• Brooklyn in General
• Fascatti Pizza – Henry St.
• Henry Street Ale House
• Waking up with anxiety only because I couldn’t choose what amazing thing I would do or see in the city
• Brooklyn Heights
• The feeling of satisfaction I felt consistently when I arrived where I wanted to go with out looking at a map
• Being lost
• The Village: every single stinky inch of it
• Wine in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday with no judgment
• That musical note the subway makes when it leave it’s stop
• The Mariachi Band, break dancers, du-op singers in the subway
• Broadway
  
• Random street art like the girl in a cage in Little Italy
• Brunch
• Halal – pretty sure I don’t know what it is, but I’ll miss it anyway
• The walk between Canal St. & Little Italy: one minute you they’re pushing fake purses on you the next Cannoli
• The Highline
• Cheese everywhere
• Walking everywhere
• The festival of San Gennaro: It’s like an urban Puyallup Fair
• Complete and meaningless street fairs and random parades
• The Carrot Peeler: RIP
• Always feeling inspired
• Central Park
• Tini little parks that seem to just be there because New York City knows how to use space
• The Guggenheim
• Intellectual conversations with cab drivers who fought through horrible conditions in their country to get to the US
• $5 mojito’s made at your blanket in Central Park
• The Chelsea Galleries
• Stormy – the old woman who has lived in the Chelsea Hotel forever and still thinks she’s a security guard
• The Spotted Pig
• The changing of the seasons – colors of the trees in Autumn, Flowers in Spring, Snow in Winter – heat in Summer
• The skyline
• Running over the Brooklyn Bridge whenever I wanted dodging tourists and being annoyed by them, then remembering I’m freaking running across the Brooklyn Bridge!!
• Restaurants where you have to bring in your own beer/wine
• Farting out loud whenever you want because you can’t hear a thing on Manhattan streets (not that I ever did that)
  
• Walking across the street against a light because you can
• Housing Works – where I bought a lot of clothes
• The Brooklyn Promenade
• Little kids who seem to own the city and the subways after school
• Diversity
• Listening to 7 different languages on the train (I like to count them)
• Central Park before or after 9 when the dogs are free to play
• Random sightings of famous people: my favorite Paul McCartney in the subway tunnel
• Fashion
• Cabs

Things I won’t Miss About New York

• Cabs
• Fashion
• $7 bottles of Amstel Light
• Getting run over by bikes while running in Central Park
• The tunnels of garbage
• Always feeling inadequate
• All that waste
• Sore feet
• The impossibility of buying all the groceries you need and want and being able to carry them home
• The unpredictable weather
• Cabs
• Rats
• Knowing that there is a whole world going on in the city that I’m not invited to and even if I was invited would not have anything to wear to “it”
• Overpriced everything
• Cabs
• Times Square
• Playing bumper cars in the grocery store no matter where you are
• Being late no mater how hard I tried