From: soon yi previn
From: soon yi previn
To: "Dr. Fred Kass" <11c5®columbia.edu>
Subject: Driving article in the New York Times.
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:09:05 +0000
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This is why I learned how to drive. It is in the New York Times style section today.
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For those who can't drive themselves, a wait for the Jitney is part of the journey to the Hamptons.
A Summer Stuck
In the Passenger Seat By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
On any given Friday afternoon in the New
York summer, offices clear out early, week-
end bags are hoisted onto shoulders, and
many of those city dwellers who are, in
colder months, perfectly happy to live con-
crete-encircled lives — they who, like the
poet and devoted New Yorker Frank
O'Hara, "can't even enjoy a blade of grass
unless I know there's a subway handy" —
slide into cars and head out of town.
Some of them just happen to be riding (inevitably, bashfully and maybe a bit anx-
iously) in the passenger seat.
There are more than 3.4 million New
York driver's licenses on file in the five
boroughs, but the city is home to a surpris-
ing number of capable professionals, pre-
cocious 20-somethings and settled 50-
somethings alike who can't do what the av-
erage 16-year-old in the Great Plains does
daily. They cannot, or do not, drive.
"It's a syndrome," said Amy Fine Col-CONTINUED ON PAGE E7
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