"It's a long holiday weekend and you know the city will empty out. Where do you go first? Café Luxembourg. Your family's coming to town and they only gave you short notice. What do you do with them? Send them to the Natural History Museum. Would you rather transfer trains or walk? Transfer trains. There's always something to read."
John Lithgow has lived in New York City off and on since 1969. Subway etiquette is summed up as being nice and kind, and when someone bumps him he responds with “thank you.” If a train line is down, he gets up and walks. In a cab, he interrupts a bad route. He avoids street flyers, sprints on blinking red lights, and starts long holiday weekends at Café Luxembourg. When family visits on short notice, he sends them to the Natural History Museum. He prefers transferring trains for reading, responds cautiously to claims about cute rats, has been to Staten Island for a movie, uses area code 917, calls Manhattan “the city,” ignores coffee prices, and does not own a car.
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