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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: Up from the streets to the suites with a simple
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  Speaker 2: question for everyone down there. Are you a Fugazi or
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  Speaker 2: are you a real New Yorker? Am I right or wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that is the question, and it really starts
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  Speaker 1: heating up. As an artist who is unaffiliated with New
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  Speaker 1: York City actually set up a website last week to
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  Speaker 1: verify someone's authenticity as a New Yorker. That dropped a
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  Speaker 1: few days before Gotham has put out an article saying
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  Speaker 1: the hottest way to show you're an authentic New Yorker
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  Speaker 1: is to ride a city bike. Okay, so let's take
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  Speaker 1: it to the streets, right? Because that's the real source
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  Speaker 1: of it to find out what locals think makes a
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  Speaker 1: native New Yorker.
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  Speaker 4: Being a native New Yorker is just getting up, doing
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  Speaker 4: what you have to do.
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  Speaker 5: I'm from Syracuse originally, so I am a native New
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  Speaker 5: Yorker and landed down here, though, 50 years ago. So
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  Speaker 5: what makes a native New Yorker? A willingness to put
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  Speaker 5: up with the good and the bad. They know their
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  Speaker 5: way around, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like a place where, oh, I've never been
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  Speaker 1: there before.
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  Speaker 5: I've been everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how to answer that. Because my parents
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  Speaker 4: are not from here, of course. And my siblings and I,
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  Speaker 4: we were born and raised here. So I don't think
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  Speaker 4: there is one definite thing that makes a New Yorker, really.
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  Speaker 4: Or maybe that is what makes a New Yorker, the
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  Speaker 4: fact that we are all different.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I commute from Jersey. But from what I guess
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  Speaker 2: I have seen, it's like people don't care here. They don't.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like that's what makes a native New Yorker.
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  Speaker 1: Do you, are you happy with those answers, Curtis, or no?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not happy with those answers at all. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Because in my mind, you're here, you're living here, even
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  Speaker 2: if you were birthed somewhere else, even if you spent
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  Speaker 2: most of your time somewhere else, you're a real New Yorker.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's very welcoming and inclusive for everybody. Because what
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  Speaker 1: about all those, what about all the migrants, right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, if they can vote, eventually, if they're made whole, right?
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  Speaker 2: If you're a politician, you want them to vote for.
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  Speaker 3: You, right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, are they a New Yorker, though, if they've been
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  Speaker 1: here all this time?
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  Speaker 2: No, of course not. See? Woo, we got it! No.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but the debate has always been how long you've
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  Speaker 1: had to live in New York to be considered a
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  Speaker 1: New Yorker. So you're saying, you know, whatever. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people say, you've got to be native, though. So
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  Speaker 1: a little bit differing from what Curtis is saying. And
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  Speaker 1: as people who are born here, they know all the
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  Speaker 1: places they don't want to go.
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  Speaker 3: Times Square, mostly, around Midtown, especially around Fifth Avenue. I
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  Speaker 3: like going there once in a while, but if I
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  Speaker 3: don't have to go, I won't go. Rockefeller Center in
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  Speaker 3: the winter. I've only ever been to the tree once.
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  Speaker 3: Other than that, everything else I watch from TV, like
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  Speaker 3: from home, I'm not waiting in a line.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the Bronx? I can't think of any.
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  Speaker 5: There's places I haven't been. After all these years, I'll
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  Speaker 5: walk down the street and go... You know, I've never
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  Speaker 5: been on the street before because New York will do
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  Speaker 5: that to you. But purposely avoid. I just use my
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  Speaker 5: sixth sense. And I think people who've been in New
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  Speaker 5: York for a while use their sixth sense and they go,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to go here and I'm not going to
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  Speaker 5: go here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel that, you know, as somebody who walks
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  Speaker 1: around the streets with a microphone all the time, I
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  Speaker 1: find myself walking down streets that I hate. And then
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  Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with I'm always finding new places. And
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  Speaker 1: that's actually how I find new restaurants. Sometimes I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I got to go here. You know, forget about a
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  Speaker 1: Google search. That's how I find a new place that
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  Speaker 1: I want to try to eat.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's old school. Yeah, it's old school. It's different.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're coming to New York with the city
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  Speaker 1: welcoming nearly 65 million people last year alone, which, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, is not up to post pandemic numbers. Still,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't seen that rebound yet. A couple of New
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  Speaker 1: Yorkers have some tips on what first-time visitors might want
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  Speaker 1: to consider while they're here.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if you do come to New York, just
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  Speaker 5: go with the flow, you know?
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  Speaker 2: Keep your head on the swivel still, because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people crazy out here also.
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  Speaker 5: That's what you should do.
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  Speaker 2: Keep your head on the swivel and pay attention to
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  Speaker 2: what's going on in your surroundings.
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  Speaker 5: Be flexible and have a little money in your pocket.
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  Speaker 5: It just costs a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Don't stand in the middle of the street, especially in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of a busy walkway like in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 4: Just get out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that is... What a true New Yorker would say,
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  Speaker 1: because that's the first thing I think when I'm walking
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  Speaker 1: across a street in New York City and there's four
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  Speaker 1: people along the sidewalk walking in one direction, blocking all
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  Speaker 1: of us when we're trying to get through. But look,
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  Speaker 1: there's no official timeline like, hey, you've been here this long.
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  Speaker 1: You're a New Yorker. The cultural benchmark to be considered
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  Speaker 1: from anywhere. according to Reddit, is 10 years. But a
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  Speaker 1: lot of New Yorkers who I talk to on the
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  Speaker 1: street say, you got to be a native to be
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  Speaker 1: a New Yorker. But not Curtis.
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  Speaker 2: Not today. No, I give everybody a pass because people say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're the real New Yorker. Thank you. But let's welcome
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  Speaker 2: everybody else, right? I'm being very welcoming today. It's Columbus Day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be out there in the parade. The
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  Speaker 2: mayor won't. Some other people won't. But I'll be there
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  Speaker 2: because I am a very welcoming person.
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  Speaker 1: Waving to all the people like royalty.
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  Speaker 2: Shaking hands. Yes. Being the typical politician.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: Just vote for me. Vote for me.
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  Speaker 1: You're from New York.
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  Speaker 2: Vote for me.
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore, WRO reporter with us every day at this time.
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  Speaker 2: She'll be back tomorrow at this time at 7.50.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Natalie.