Dating can be fun, terrible, soul-crushing and life-affirming, no matter where you live, but dating in New York is a particular type of nightmare
Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos: Getty My first mistake was kissing the guy who worked at the pizza place by my apartment in Queens. He gave me free slices, and I gave him cigarettes, and it wasn’t until he put his mouth on mine under the subway stairs that I realized I would have to find somewhere else to buy pizza on my way home at night.
I chose to ignore the fact that an elderly man was found there face down in a hot tub a year prior. Also, I hate spas. But my crush was cute and if all else failed, I figured it would be a fun story to tell our grandkids. Immediately after we arrived, I was handed a uniform that was far too big and had a mysterious stain on the front. Cute.
She’d found an extremely affordable studio apartment … in Brooklyn … approximately two blocks from mine When we met, Sam had been subletting a place in Brooklyn for about a month. She was new to the city and had plans to rent a place of her own with a roommate in Washington Heights at the end of the summer. This all sounded fine as we went about our first and second dates, getting to know each other and having a surprisingly good time.
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