We’re ready to say goodbye to subway stations as hot as saunas, and hello to pumpkin spiced lattes and the leaves changing colors in Manhattan. As we prepare to say goodbye to the NYC summer, here are 20 things we definitely are not going to miss:
1. Overcrowded parks
2. (Nearly) naked sunbathers
3. Impossibly long lines for the zoos
4. Getting caught in thunderstorms with no umbrella
5. The ice in your ice coffee melting between the coffee shop and your office
6. Your sandals that keep your feet cool also have no arch support
7. The Brooklyn Bridge City Hall subway station
8. Pretty much any subway station that isn’t Fulton Street
9. Sweating while waiting for the subway and your sweat has nowhere to go
10. Re-applying deodorant 3 times on your way to work
11. The particularly pungent smell of B.O. on the subway
12. Your co-worker’s egg salad lunch which already spoiled on his way over
13. Going to work in summer clothes and then shivering in the AC
14. Coming home to an apartment with no central AC
15. Feeling like you need a shower before and after work
16. Your window AC unit breaking because, well, it’s a window AC unit
17. Your pet wanting to sleep on top of you when your window AC unit is broken
18. Walking 2 or more blocks to do laundry or buy groceries
19. The amplified smell of rotting garbage
20. Tourists (but we can’t ever get rid of them)
Cover photo credit: Nina M. Chung