What is it about NYC that breeds so many neurotic people? Is it partly the fact that people figure that in a city that large, one can afford to be picky (and conversely, other people will be picky about THEM as well)? Seinfeld certainly captured the 'zeitgeist' of neurotic New Yorkers. Maybe that's why I could barely stand to watch the show. I could take it in small doses, spaced out over time.
Nobody referenced in the article is a bred in NY New Yorker. The writer's a Brit, the date's an Israeli. They are just two of the supreme bozos who come here bringing their fantasies about the place and then after less than six months claim to be real New Yorkers. They flock here from all over, UK, SA, EU, San Francisco, you name the liberal hell as place of origin and we got'em. The heartland has cow-pies, we've got these guys.
(WD, if you read this you are, of course, always the exception.)