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Lifelong New Yorkers are unreliable for directions
Don't ask New Yorkers for directions. Don't get me wrong, we're more than willing to help. But, you could wind up with some bad information. A recent poll of lifelong New Yorkers conducted by New York Pass, an attraction discount card, shows that most of us don't have the city's basics nailed down.- Less than half of New Yorkers think the Top of the Rock is atop the Empire State Building: 41 percent (it's at Rockefeller Center, and only 16 percent got it right)
- Few realize that the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Natural History Museum sit on opposite sides of Central Park: 28 percent
- Yet, we know where the Transit Museum is: 44 percent responded correctly that it's in Brooklyn
- How many New Yorkers know that the seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown represent the Seven Seas and the Seven Continents: 18 percent (but, I'm sure more know where the statue is)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jliu Jan 10th 2010 5:07PM
Then again...these are tourist destinations. How many life-long New Yorkers do you know that frequent the major tourism sites? Most avoid them like the plague.
Travel Wizard Jan 11th 2010 7:54AM
I think this is common for a lot of cities. People take some things for granted, they know how to get somewhere if they need it, but when it comes to explaining they get completely blurred. And they generally know what interests them, the rest is just something they know exists but couldn't tell where it was. I've seen this a lot in the city I live in, Bucharest, and also in other (Istanbul, Amsterdam etc).