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applecherry108 · 2 years

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So I have never spent any amount of time looking at a map of nyc in all my 31 years of life, so getting on Google maps and staring and studying and Realizing™️ some shit has been hilarious and surreal.

I did not know that their famous subway does not connect to Staten Island.

They were not kidding, that island is Long

The Statue of Liberty is technically in New Jersey waters???

The statue is way further inland (in-bay?) than I realized.

Hell’s Kitchen is larger than I gave it credit for

It’s also like. A block away from Times Square

It always fucks me up that Central Park is. So. Rectangular. Perfectly rectangular. I Know nyc is “a grid system mf” but the park still looks like that image of Colorado superimposed on a natural borders map of the us. It looks weird.

I am not, however, surprised at how fucking massive the park is. I Knew one (1) thing about the city, and it was that.

I truly did not understand that the City is on 3 separate fucking islands. Like I know I have no concept of anything and I know I’ve never had any special interest in nyc, but the more I look at it the more I feel like I’ve never absorbed any information about it ever in my life.

Yonkers.

#3 decades of consuming media and apparently any time literally anything about nyc is mentioned I just nod and say ok #I’m convinced that so much shit takes place in nyc bc you could just say anything and it could be completely inaccurate #but the only ppl who would know are native New Yorkers but they don’t care enough to correct you #they probably think it’s hilarious that you can just. say anything about the city and ppl will believe it.#nyc is a blank slate that can be anything and everything.#Spider-Man is from queens and it makes it sound like a small Burroughs (burrow? neighborhood?)#but queens in HUUUUGE #queens is *the* largest borough (there I googled it. it’s borough) in the fucking city #BOTH the major nyc airports are in! queens!!#to me. a Midwesterner. saying ‘oh I’m from queens :( ‘ makes me think Peter is from some. like. shitty little neighborhood.#IT IS NOT A SHITTY LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD ITS FUCKING MASSIVE #like maybe it was different in the 60s but I don’t think ‘friendly neighborhood spiderman’ Carrie’s the same implication this side of #the millennium. also! if queens is ‘the most urban area’ of the city. if it’s where most ppl live. if it is ‘the neighborhood’ WHY DOES #SPIDER-MAN SPEND ALL HIS TIME IN MANHATTEN THEN???????#I HATE THIS! I understand less about New York than I did an hour ago when I apparently knew NOTHING about New York!!#at this point I don’t know if it’s the autism or if I’m just stupid but god I really absolutely did not understand anything about nyc ever #to me it really just be ‘it’s all Ohio? always has been. 🔫’#apple talks #to the tune of spam

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