“cooking” in the context of doing something well has been around for a long time. Think, “now you’re cooking!” Or the less common “now you’re cooking with gas!”

I think it’s just in more frequent use currently. It will be interesting to see if people stop using it after it goes out of fashion with the youth.

Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen. It’s about realizing that you’ve peaked and your best days are behind you.

Oh cool. I didn’t know that.

I second the tenement museum. Really great for New York history.

Local here:

If pizza is on your list then I suggest Lombardi’s in Little Italy. Classic New York pizza you can get anywhere but Lombardi’s makes a more Neapolitan style using the only coal oven still allowed in NYC so it’s totally unique. It also likely the oldest pizzeria in city. Gets kind of busy but worth it.

As others have said, take a commuter ferry. Staten Island ferry is cool but the east river ferry takes you under the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges and offers good views of lower Manhattan.

DO NOT under any circumstances walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. A lot of tourists think that sounds cool but that is the problem. Waaay to many tourists think that. It’s a nightmare.

Definitely ignore the guy that said stay close to Times Square. It is tourist hell and gives you absolutely no insight into what New York is really like. Unless you like huge crowds and chain stores then by all means. There’s plenty of locals in this thread with much, much better advice. Listen to us.

OJ trial. Every single day.

And the Springsteen version very clearly says deuce which means Manfred Mann had to deliberately change it.

I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.

That had to be deliberate

Pfftt… “Aforementioned.” Well la-di-da.

I had to look up escarpment. How do you regularly have the opportunity to use that word?

I would never spit in someone’s drink. I’d spray them with the soda gun instead.

That is a good fucking movie. It should be more well known than it is. I could definitely watch that repeatedly. I could probably watch an hour and forty five of just Charles Grodin doing absolutely nothing and still laugh my ass off.

Super busy dive bar. Not the kind of place you’d order a fancy cocktail on a slow night let alone a packed weekend. Customer asks for some particularly complicated drink when the bar is slammed. Bartender tells her that there a lot of people waiting behind her and asks if she’d please order some simple. Customer insists. Bartender pleads. Customer insists. Bartender relents, pulls out all the tools, gathers the ingredients, preps the glass, etc, etc. Pours the ingredients into the shaker. Spits in the shaker directly in font of the customer. Shakes up the drink, strains it in the glass and says, "that’ll be twelve dollars please "

Anything by Morrissey. The histrionics are annoying enough but I think he’s an objectively bad musician. He seems to just meander around with no discernable melody. Like, what are you even trying to do man? I’m pretty certain the actually catchy Smiths songs were written by someone else.

Runner up: Hold My Hand by Hootie and the Blowfish. If it comes on at a place of business I will immediately walk out of that business.

Biting my toenails

I don’t think it gets any slower than Fishing with John

Baseball: no more home runs. If it goes out of the park it’s a foul. It will force a much more dynamic infield game and get rid of boring ass pop flys.

Edit: exception for grand slams because that shit is pretty exciting.

I dunno, sounds like english to me.

David Bowie. He was such a cultural touchstone that influenced so much artistry on top of being a brilliant artist himself. I lived in New York City when he died and the stoop of his apartment turned into a makeshift memorial with countless people contributing objects that held significance to their relationship with him. I was so overwhelmed to see it that I cried.