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Metropolitan Diary
Jump to full article: New York Times, 2009-11-01
Author: Rosemary Stewart
Intro: Living in Georgia for the past 13 years, I get tired of the boasting about Southern hospitality and the inevitable comparisons to my hometown, New York, as a cold, uncaring place.
At those times, I think back to my days as an N.Y.U. scholarship student in the ’80s, perpetually broke and, at times, feeling sorry for myself.
On one such day, I was walking to class through Washington Square Park and was approached by a homeless man asking for spare change. “Sorry,” I told him. “I don’t even have enough money to buy a pack of cigarettes.”
“Aw, you want a cigarette?” he said. “I got cigarettes.” And he held out a battered pack of Pall Malls.
Ah, the kindness of strangers, New York style.
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