[BunnySlippers]

New Yorkers are incredibly friendly. Whenever I am traveling in NYC I end up in more conversations with complete strangers than anywhere else. Nice people too.

[VeniVidiVici]

Perhaps it is only when they travel or move from NYC do they become loud, overbearing and boorish.

[Sterlis]

I commute from NJ and work in NYC 10 hours a day. I can say that I would have never believed it if I hadn't experienced it but folks in NYC ARE very polite and friendly. It has not always been that way but since 9/11 a profound change has occurred.

Having been unsuccessful in my plans to escape NJ I have been trapped here for 15 years and have found that it has filled with more than it's share of a-holes in that time. One theory is that it is all of the old rude NY'ers...

[freedumb2003]

Last time I was in NYC I encountered nothing but nice and helpful folk.

I guess it took the NYC Freepers to show the rest of the city how to behave!

NYC Chick -- still with us? I have been pinging you on what a nice time I had when I was there and you ain't said nothin'.

[Gunny P]

..years ago, on a "carload" weekend trip to NYC, our vehicle's battery went flat. On approach to one "those" tunnels.
I was amazed at the folks that came of the line to help us. From shady Banger types to Joe Suburbia (NJ) in town with the wife and children for a ballet.
Running on a weak battery and no heat, we made it home.
Thankful for New Yorkers for getting us going.

[JoeGar]

New Yorkers are incredibly friendly.

That does not apply to New York waiters who all seem to be having bad hair days.