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It's February 1st, And NYC Is Only 3 Degrees Colder Than LA
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 1, 2012
Modified Feb 1, 2012
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Sure, Los Angeles is an okay place to live if you like abundant sunshine and driving up Highway 1 on a weekday afternoon with the top down, a surfboard in the backseat, and Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters" blaring on the stereo. But we could never live there! We'd miss the seasons; these magical winter days playing in the snow and nights making love in front of a roaring fire. And then there are precious afternoons like this, where all the windows in the office are open and we're fighting a despicable urge to turn on the air conditioning.
Outside on the streets of NYC, smug young men are no doubt loafing about wearing flip-flops, and the thong guy is sunbathing in Brooklyn Bridge Park. At the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, Japanese apricot trees are in full bloom along with the yellow Adonis plants and azaleas. Not normal, but isn't it heavenly? Like carefree frogs frolicking in a big pot of simmering water, we're just loving it. The west coast has nothing on us now! And if we all drive around the block a few times in our Hummers, surely we can beat LA's high temp today!
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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