Well maybe there is hope after all....

[wawadave]

FINDERS, KEEPERS? NOT IN NEW YORK, March 19
If you lose your wallet in New York City, do you expect to ever see it again? Given the stereotypes that surround the city—all New Yorkers are rude, their city is a den of thieves, they would just as soon step over you than pick you up off the street—you may not. But many people who make New York their home know that its residents are proud of their habit of helping each other out in a pinch.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news93535863.html

I have to say i was surprised at the outcome.
But of all the NY tourists i met up here i found them friendly once you broke the ice!!
the two times in my life to get to newyork city i enjoyed both times. though i had asked other people what to advoid when there includeing tourists from newyork i met here.
But with the hussel and bussel wall to wall people. this study i found shows there just may be hope yet!!!

[xpgeek]

I live just across the river and just outside New York City a mere few miles away. I was born here, grew up here in the shadow of the city, was in tower 2 the very night before 9/11, point being I might not live within the city itself, but I still consider myself to be a New Yorker.

Yea it is a very crowded city, and a very very crowded region in general. The stretch of big huge citys in New Jersey just outside NYC, Jersey City, Newark, Elizabeth (my hometown), are all very large and very crowded citys. Sure there are areas I wouldn't go at night, or alone during the day even, and sure there are some people that are rude pricks, but isn't this also true for any major large city.

Point being, yea, the general typecast of rude uncaring New Yorker so often shown in movies is so very wrong.

I like to remind people of the 2003 power blackout as the example of my point. Big chain reaction power system failure, almost entire Northeast and even parts of Canada lost power. Most places had their power restored within hours. New York City remained without power for a good 2 or even 3 days I think it was. When it first happened, that first night especially when night fell upon the city with no power yet, police forces were thinking oh crap here comes the looting, and what happened, people everywhere all over the city decided that the food in their fridges was going to have to be thrown out anyway, so why not just cook it all now. So block partys, everywhere. Everyone just cooking all the food they had and just giving it away to their neighbors. Everyone just eating and just staying outside and talking instead of watching TV as usual, lol. And in the entire 3 days of blackout in New York City, the total number of people arrested for looting, was like 3. A whole whopping 3 people.

And that is the greatest example there is of how wrong the movie stereotype of a New Yorker is. The rest of the country learned New York was going to be without power for 2 or 3 days, and thought, the citys going to tear itself apart, and the exact opposite happened. That, among other things, made me proud to call myself a New Yorker.

[wawadave]

i had forgot about that. power went off here for 3-4 minuets .
remember hearing about how newyork did and other city like toronto did rather well in their 1 day outage.
its good to see what hollywood made newyork to appear is wrong.