The Heat, the Crowd, the Park and the Booze
[2008-7-17]
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The phenomenon can be a little startling to newcomers, though it is one that more seasoned New Yorkers most likely no longer see, possibly because they are still recovering from the night before. Michael Treanor, who is 23 and from Santa Cruz, Calif., finds himself caught up in it every time he visits. “Without having to drive, I drink here all the time,” said Mr. Treanor. “We found a cafe that served unlimited mimosas with breakfast,” said his fiancée, Brianna Jacobson, 23. “And we do not have that back home,” Mr. Treanor said.
With bars on every corner, and — thanks to buses, subways or cabs — no need to drive after the drinking is done, New York City, for Mr. Treanor, is like a giant — and boozy — college campus. And this is never more true than in the summer. Even going to the movies involves drinking. Mr. Treanor and Ms. Jacobson were sitting with their friend Christopher Jarrod Thomas, also 23, in the middle of Bryant Park. It was a recent Monday evening, and a free film, “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” was about to be shown. They were polishing off two bottles of Yellow Tail shiraz, without cups. And, to their surprise, no one was stopping them.
“I’m a little shocked,” said Mr. Treanor between swigs, his eyes widening. “In California, this is way not allowed.” New York City is somewhat of a drinker’s paradise year round, but a certain extra layer of permissiveness seems to infuse the city in the summertime, along with a wellspring of opportunities to get sloshed, slightly or mightily.
Be they surreptitiously sipped from brown paper bags or openly downed from plastic tumblers at movie nights or concerts in an array of parks, drinks of all stripes and potencies surface in force, rather brazenly. And thus the hazy morning of the next summer day is often contemplated through the secondary haze of a hangover. “Drinks are cold, New York’s hot, the weather’s warm and the days are long,” said Lucy Paynter, 25, a bartender and singer who was taking in a movie, and some pinot grigio, while stretched out on Bryant Park’s lawn. “It’s a thing in the summer. I think people are generally more irresponsible. That’s why you have summer flings. And that’s why you drink. It’s a hedonistic season.”
The phenomenon can be a little startling to newcomers, though it is one that more seasoned New Yorkers most likely no longer see, possibly because they are still recovering from the night before. Michael Treanor, who is 23 and from Santa Cruz, Calif., finds himself caught up in it every time he visits. “Without having to drive, I drink here all the time,” said Mr. Treanor. “We found a cafe that served unlimited mimosas with breakfast,” said his fiancée, Brianna Jacobson, 23. “And we do not have that back home,” Mr. Treanor said.
With bars on every corner, and — thanks to buses, subways or cabs — no need to drive after the drinking is done, New York City, for Mr. Treanor, is like a giant — and boozy — college campus. And this is never more true than in the summer. Even going to the movies involves drinking. Mr. Treanor and Ms. Jacobson were sitting with their friend Christopher Jarrod Thomas, also 23, in the middle of Bryant Park. It was a recent Monday evening, and a free film, “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” was about to be shown. They were polishing off two bottles of Yellow Tail shiraz, without cups. And, to their surprise, no one was stopping them.
“I’m a little shocked,” said Mr. Treanor between swigs, his eyes widening. “In California, this is way not allowed.” New York City is somewhat of a drinker’s paradise year round, but a certain extra layer of permissiveness seems to infuse the city in the summertime, along with a wellspring of opportunities to get sloshed, slightly or mightily.
Be they surreptitiously sipped from brown paper bags or openly downed from plastic tumblers at movie nights or concerts in an array of parks, drinks of all stripes and potencies surface in force, rather brazenly. And thus the hazy morning of the next summer day is often contemplated through the secondary haze of a hangover. “Drinks are cold, New York’s hot, the weather’s warm and the days are long,” said Lucy Paynter, 25, a bartender and singer who was taking in a movie, and some pinot grigio, while stretched out on Bryant Park’s lawn. “It’s a thing in the summer. I think people are generally more irresponsible. That’s why you have summer flings. And that’s why you drink. It’s a hedonistic season.”
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