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NY, Stilettos, and Clever Commuting
December 12, 2008If I could live in one city for a year, I’ll choose New York - and it’s not just because it’s Carrie Bradshaw’s city, or that it never sleeps, or that it oozes cosmopolitan chic from every nook and cranny, from every manhole and pothole. I’d love to live in New York because to quote Frank Sinatra, “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.” And “making it there” or anywhere for that matter is literally a problem in New York. In all the movies I’ve seen, hailing a cab in New York is like trying to outbid competitors at an auction. There are just too many people in NY and too few cabs.
Naturally, if I lived in New York, walking IS not an option for me. I can’t go around in flats in the city of chic after all. I’ll be wearing platform shoes, towering boots, and pointed stilettos so running after a cab is out of the question. So how do I get around then? If I’ve the money for it, I’ll hire a limo or buy myself one and get a uniformed driver to take it around. If I don’t, then I’ll make reservations for a JFK Airport Shuttle. Who says only tourists can use their service? They provide transportation throughout NY and its neighboring suburbs so I might as well turn JFK’s shuttling service into my own version of a liveried chauffeur. Frank Sinatra may have sung, “These vagabond shoes are longing to stray right through the heart of it,” but I’m sure he did not mean that literally. Wear out the soles of his Armani-clad feet? I doubt it!






