People Share Their Weird and Wonderful NYC Stories That Put Us in a New York State of Mind

The song would have been a lot less romantic if those were the lyrics, but a lot more accurate. New York City is always depicted in songs, movies, and pop culture as a romantic, mysterious, over-the-top place where anything and everything can happen. Movies and songs rarely ever depict the other side of the city.

Sure, there are a lot of great things about NYC, it’s a city full of possibilities, but it’s also ridiculously expensive and sometimes depressing. Of course, no one wants to write a song about that, so the people of Twitter took it upon themselves to spread the truth about NYC.