Why post a blog that copied a blog that copied the original? Quote the source.

http://www.coedmagazine.com/Daily/11831

And yeah, the NY Times recently published the same thing re: clothes and I laughed then too. I see people in shorts in residential neighborhoods all the time. I doubt people wear shorts to work in Omaha either.

Yeah, I see New Yorkers who have been here from generations and transplants alike wearing shorts. If anything it's the rare US city where you really need shorts, since you still have to walk around when it's hot.

There are irritating things tourists do, like shove more than necessary, stop at the top of stairs

But this kind of rant-ing antisocial attitude against tourists in general, and against the various other crimes this guy is bitching about seems to be borne out of insecurity -- he wants to prove he's a big sophisticated new yorker.

Shorts? Seriously? It's hot as balls here in the summer, fuck long pants.

I hate it when tourists are all Americana'd out with their flag pins, I love NY t shirts, etc and then go spend hundreds of hundreds of dollars on fake bags on Canal Street.

They act extremely patriotic and yet are supporting the black market and NYers don't get any tax benefits from it.

And complaining about crocs is about as out of date as complaining about the Macarena or something. No one wears crocs anymore anyway. And if they do what does this guy care?

I'm going to wear crocs and shorts next time I come to NYC just to piss this guy off.

WTF is wrong with shorts?

Also I don't think transplants are allowed to complain about tourists - they're just extended stay tourists anyway.

Some tourists bother me ("We want to get a real good New York pizza! Oooh, look, Sbarro!"), but for the most part, I find tourists to be okay. I actually make it a point to approach tourists who look utterly bewildered, and point them in the right direction. I like to dispel the "New Yorkers are rude" stereotype one confused fanny-pack-wearer at a time. Sometimes I do roll my eyes a bit at the NASCAR T-shirts and the Statue of Liberty foam headgear, because certain tourists visually remind me of unpleasant people in the backwater Southern town that I came from. But I don't put on a NASCAR T-shirt when I (rarely) visit my relatives there, so why should I expect people from towns like that to dress and act the part when they visit New York? And I certainly don't assume that everyone who looks like that is unpleasant.

Also, what happened to New York being diverse? Since when do we all follow the same set of fashion rules? "Must not wear shorts! Must wear all black except in summer! Must wear designer sunglasses!" Naaah, I wear shorts. And sandals. And sweatpants, at other times of year. Precisely because I don't care about anyone's fashion rules but my own. I wasn't aware that where you happen to live dictates how you must look, what you must do with your time, and what sort of attitude you must have towards certain things, like, say, tourists.

Cheers to all above! Only an asshole would try to box in people who quite often are very savvy, sophisticated travellers. As to the ones from Kansas? Many of the most grizzled cynical New Yorkers were there once and seeing them lets us relive those first experiences. Tourists rock! Now those people from Staten Island...

big ditto to the above, but crocs are gay - even on little kids.

>>>Thoughts on how not to be a douchebag tourist in NYC.

Ah, the same old anti-tourist crap; never mind that tourism may be what keeps NYC from going down the drain completely in this recession.

Tourists have my permission to stand on the sidewalk and stare up at buildings, walk in packs down the street as s-l-o-w-l-y as they damn well please, wear Statue of Liberty styrofoam visors if they want to, stand in place on escalators AND, if they're in a car they can also wait a millisecond before hitting the gas pedal when the light turns green.

I am a tourist in my own city, and I give you leave. Welcome, all.

www.forgotten-ny.com

The person who wrote the douche article is a much larger douche than most of the tourists I see. Seriously, this guy is talking about Midtown and below obviously. I wear shorts. All my friends wear shorts. I wear sandals and so do all my friends. I have been living here long enough that I really don't care what anybody thinks and that is the real NY attitude-not wearing a tight pair of chinos with aviator sunglasses with a button down shirt to go to the grocery store (a t-shirt and cargo shorts for these little trips!)

If someone offends you so greatly on the subway by wearing crocs, a lanyard, or some other article of clothing, please do the world a favor and jump off the platform. Tourists can be a refreshing change, as they are the ones on the train or in the street who haven't yet become jaded to the wonders of the city...and learned to hate it for the incessant douchebaggery coming out of people like this guy who thinks fashion makes the person.

/rant off