From Nick I learned to play the city like a video game: always keep moving, score points for knowing that diner on south Broadway has killer pea soup or that bar on St. Mark’s doesn’t card on Wednesdays or that one pool hall on Houston has Monster Bash pinball and stays open twenty-four hours. Every choice, from what you wear to how you walk to which street you turn down next is a potential portal to another level, to a part of the game you haven’t even seen yet, to the unimaginable.
