I met a friendly girl (Shelly) today at the subway station at 40th and 8th in front of the New York Times building.<\/p>\n
But the only reason I bring this up is because she asked me how to get to the number 7 subway.<\/p>\n
There I was, calmly reviewing the subway map so I could get to the Museum Mile Festival<\/a>, and she comes over asking me if I knew how to get to the #7. Mind you, I live in Durham NC, and have only ridden the subway in Manhattan once<\/strong> before today. But she asked me how to get back to Main St in Flushing.<\/p>\n I must have inherited the “ask me directions to anywhere, I can get you there” invisible sign that my dad has. I’ve been asked directions, now, twice on this visit to New York. I couldn’t help the first guy, but Shelly I could.<\/p>\n I pointed-out to her that she had gotten off at the New York Times<\/em>, and not<\/strong> Times Square<\/em>. I showed her on the map where the 7 terminates on its west point (Times Square), and mentioned I was heading there myself. To which she asked if she could follow me. Sure, why not?<\/p>\n So up the stairs we headed towards Times Square. Once there, we headed into that subway station, and she found the 7 with no issues, while I went over to find the 3 to head up to Central Park North for the block party thing.<\/p>\n I really do wish I could see that sign, so I at least knew I wasn’t crazy the next time I’m asked for directions by some random person on the street – because I know it’ll happen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I met a friendly girl (Shelly) today at the subway station at 40th and 8th in front of the New York Times building. But the only reason I bring this up is because she asked me how to get to the number 7 subway. There I was, calmly reviewing the subway map so I could …
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