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two months.

Hello, New York

About two months ago, I picked up and moved to New York from California. I literally knew just a handful of people here, and it was going to be a new career path starting over as a designer, at a new company, and a new city.  I flew out here, and hung out with pretty much the three to four friends I knew.

I sublet with my friends Ed and Colleen for about a month, catching up on years of design projects at work by day, and apartment hunting with new roomies Phong and Carrie by night.  I’d spend almost every weeknight and weekend crawling a new part of the city, working off this massive bucket list of things to do in NYC, ranging from playing chess in Central Park to getting my first NYPL card to stooping in The Village.

I had come out here for the first time a couple summers back in 2010, in the gap jumping between my first and second jobs, and I had pretty much gotten all the landmarks and touristy destinations out of my system in a week-long quest of covering as much of Manhattan as possible on foot and by subway. This time, I wanted to explore things you’d typically discover through word of mouth from the locals.

I didn’t want to slow myself down with a traditional long form journal, so before I moved here, I decided to use a photo journal with a breadcrumb trail of locations, using a combination of Path, Foursquare, and Instagram to track my story learning something new about New York everyday.