Quick Pedestrian Pace

Quick Pedestrian Pace – New York, New York I’m making a big assumption in this blog post for the sake of the story. It appears that the primary people I see in the frame are New Yorkers and not tourists. I certainly could be wrong. But unlike yesterday’s post featuring shoppers on 5th Avenue, these people appear to be walking with a purpose. It’s understandable that tourists dawdle and take their time. But New Yorkers are different. They rush to their destination. When I lived in New York, I walked very fast. I once heard a totally unsubstantiated claim that people from the borough of Queens walked the fastest. Perhaps that’s because they often traveled farther to get into Manhattan. I can verify that most of my friends and I lived in Queens, and we booked down the street. It took many years for me to slow down. Every time I returned to New York, even after many years of not living there, I would start walking fast, and I could tell my tension increased in tandem. Now, I’m a complete…

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