- Gumboots are very popular, and not just pretty patterned gumboots, but regular green farmer style gumboots. You can wear them with anything, jeans, summer dresses, shorts
- Flannel is everywhere, not just for hipsters
- A lot of signs are multilingual (Spanish), especially on the subway
- EVERYTHING is unlawful. There are signs for everything warning people of dangerous and unlawful things. Like having too many people in a lift, or in a gallery at MoMA. It's like by posting the sign the organisation is no longer responsible if something goes wrong - customers you have been warned! Take action to ensure numbers are not exceeded (esp at MoMA, I'm sure there was a sign saying no more than 499 people)
- Where ever construction is underway there is a sign: Excuse our appearance
- Heaps of people had fluro pink toe nail polish
- Homeless people poo/wipe their bums in the street - need more public toilets!!
- There are signs in most restaurants showing you how to help a choking person
- Everyone everywhere is casual, there are no fabulous people
- Shops are all over staffed. There is a greeter/welcomer, a security person, someone to check for stock, multiple people in the changing rooms, someone to process sales
- Lots of green energy and green behaviour promotion
- Lots of French speaking people
- No info at stations about when next train is - kinda annoying, except trains are pretty regular
- Shit my dads says is going to be tv show with William Shatner - WTF!
- You can go on a payment plan for cosmetic procedures - chemical peel etc
- EVERYONE walks on the right - you'll never bump into anyone
- There doesn't appear to be an evening rush hour - never awake early enough to know about the morning peak. Maybe everyone is on summer holidays?
- Pedestrians always cross at the intersection - no jay walking in the middle of the block
- Little league baseball is broadcast on the telly
New York Observations
Just some general observations:
