Both of my brothers lived there for years. My one lived mostly in Manhattan, and my other one lived in bay ridge brooklyn.
Smartphone apps make taking the trains super easy for tourists/new people FWIW.
Baseballs only tricky because the old timers actually played significantly longer than they do now. So like the 300 win threshold is sooo much tougher for pitchers now. And 3000 hits is just a gauntlet
Owens was a 5 time AP first team all-pro player. Tim Brown was a 0 time AP first team all-pro player.
That means - at no point in his career was he ever THE dominant Wide receiver in the NFL.
Warner didn't play in the NFL until 27 - and basically out of nowhere was the best player in the league. He also won 2 MVP awards in his first 3 years starting.
Certainly not for everybody. I think I could've made the jump right after college, but now I don't think I could. Wife likes the city in small doses only.
Its funny that people find this hard to believe. Everyone I know who moved there, has moved back. NY is a big lonely city, especially for transplants.
Obviously its differnet if you have close friends and family
I don't think that was the plan at all. The plan was to have gillislee. He signed a really late in the season offer sheet, and we chose not to match due to the the size of the deal for a backup running back. We weren't able to get a suitable replacement due to the timing that he left.