IDK about NYC, man. I was there once and my initial impression was media lied about the traffic. There was no cars anywhere; but the sidewalks were crowded as fuck. π€£
And every time I thought "screw all these people, I'm taking a cab" I'd tell them where I wanted to go and they were like "I'm not gonna take your money to go 2 blocks."
I drove a lady home from a party in NYC at like midnight, and I said "Oh, it's only five miles that won't be bad"
It took an hour to get there and back. I wasn't really mad because she was cute and maybe into me but we could have walked that distance in the same amount of time.