While I'm waiting for the very active poll about my laziness to end, let me tell ya'll a little bit about NYC. NYC is BIG. So big in fact that the port authority is like a completely self contained city. And not a small city -- lots of people are moving around in this embedded city. They are pushy. They are in a hurry to go stand in line. They are all over the place, just like a real city.
Of course this sub-city has a subway station connected to it (everything in NYC has a subway station connected to it). Perhaps you can consider it the intra-inner-state transportation system. Maybe it is actually intra-intra-state? Anyway, it also has it's own internal transportation system: escalator, elevators, and those zippy little golf carts that I wish I could drive on the real streets.
Ok, but it isn't this that makes it a recursive city. And it isn't the cart vendors, or the food shops, or magazine stands, or homeless people sleeping on the benches. Nope, none of this qualify for making the port authority a city to me. The thing that pushed me over the edge was the pigeons. Not the pigeons flying around outside, but the pigeons hopping around, eating food from the floor inside!!! Lots of them, like it was the park and no one seemed to think it was weird.
Well, I better get back to counting the lazy ballots...
