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For the newbies
Let’s hope these are freshmen or just visitors.
Outside the Law School, two female adolescents:
“Wait, where’s NYU?”
Overheard on campus, “uptown”:
“I’m going downtown today, to 96th Street.”
Two CPJ conference attendees standing by the gates spot Alan Brinkley leaving campus:
“See that man there? He teaches here. That’s Alan Brinkley, the famous scientist.”
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@columbia bubble 96th = still downtown….108th is dt….
@Well whoever put this piece together clearly doesn’t know a lot about NYC. In this city anything that is south of you on Manhattan is considered “downtown” and heading towards that location would be described as such.
@Anonymous While you could be right, I think it is assumed that the person speaking is using “downtown” not as a direction, but as a location.
@Alan Brinkley makes APUSH a science.
@Anonymous I think the first girls were confused by Gossip Girl’s depiction of the distance between Columbia and NYU.
@um downtown relative to campus?
@Ya, The science of bad-assery! … Up top!
@Whatever Eric Foner is way better. Foner boner forever.