New York Accent

WATCH: Trailer For Documentary Devoted To The New York Accent

Posted 07.06.2011

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With Manhattan property getting more and more expensive and funneling old families to the outer boroughs, New York City is losing its accents. "If The...

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If These Knishes Could Talk Gabs About New Yawk Accents

Posted 06.14.2011

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What exactly is a New York accent? If These Knishes Could Talk is all about the way New Yorkers speak, and have spoken for decades. Some in the ...

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Wassitooyah? How to Speak in 1938 New York

A Lower East Side Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thanks to Boogie reader Shawn Chittle for passing along this link to the 1938 Almanac for New Yorkers [PDF].  In the wake of Friday's post on Bowery ...

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A Guide to Being Guided

Megan Doherty | Posted 05.25.2011

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Megan Doherty

Most New York City walking tour attendees are alert, interested and interesting people genuinely keen to learn. They don't know they're acting like a**holes. No one has taken the time to tell them.

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