(Note: the "back side" of the stock exchange fronts a pretty narrow sidewalk, and there's a small sign. The "front side" is enormous, columns, the whole nine, facing on a blocked-off street. I truly do not get why people take pictures in the inconvenient spot.)

I walk past the front side almost every day, and walk into plenty of shots there, too. There's not that much room on that corner where you can get the whole building. But I'm sure people are wandering around taking pictures from both.

Yes, but we can read the Sunday Times on Saturday.

So can I, online. Usually the Sunday features are up by noon Saturday, and sometimes Friday.

The funny part is that in all that advice the blogger doesn't ever give the one bit I always give: walk left, stand right. It is something I would like to legislate into a law of physics, granted, but it's also, like, it's a custom that makes sense that people from away might never guess on their own till yelled at.

One of the bus stops I frequent is next to the Chicago Theatre and across from a television news studio where you can watch them film from the sidewalk. I'm probably in everyone's frickin' pictures.

The funny part is that in all that advice the blogger doesn't ever give the one bit I always give: walk left, stand right. It is something I would like to legislate into a law of physics, granted, but it's also, like, it's a custom that makes sense that people from away might never guess on their own till yelled at.

There's this whole paragraph about how people are going to their publishing/bioscience/fashion jobs, so don't be underfoot and then...nothing specific about that!

The other day I think I accidentally hit some girl's umbrella with my umbrella and I got a total staredown from tourist mere for my PRESUMPTION! to want to get past the seven people collected in front of the subway. Oooh, that could've ended up in a verbal altercation. I was waiting for her to say something.

On many escalators here, people don't walk left -- they just all cram on, IME. Unlike DC, where it's pretty well followed.

I hated that location. I lurve midtown.

Hilarious. I've never really worked in midtown, but now I can see it being like a dream! Actually, that's a lie: I was on 32nd St. for a while.

Lunchtime options are even worse in midtown than downtown.

I once worked near Gramercy Park. That was truly awesome.

Lunchtime options are even worse in midtown than downtown.

So true. When I was temping, I worked in just about every neighborhood south of 59th St, and by far the worst lunch options are in East midtown. Which is where I work now. Feh.

When my mom and I took the Metro in DC last month, I had to constantly tell her to stand on the right of the escalator to let everyone walk past on the left. She kept on shifting to the left so she could look back at me (standing on the right), and I kept pushing her back to the right.

If you're trying to do a left-turn onto the middle of a busy sidewalk, I'd say tourists are not your biggest problem...

Oh come on. When the tourists are in season, that means it's OK to run them down, right? Just like deer season?

I kept pushing her back to the right.

And hundreds of people were grateful for that!