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From: soon yi previn To: "Dr. Fred Kass" <11c5®columbia.edu> Subject: Driving article in the New York Times. Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:09:05 +0000 Inline-Images: photo.JPG This is why I learned how to drive. It is in the New York Times style section today. EFTA01202785  DP. IN 't ALKIN FOR Tiff NEW YORK TIMES For those who can't drive themselves, a wait for the Jitney is part of the journey to the Hamptons. A Summer Stuck In the Passenger Seat By MATTHEW SCHNEIER (inevitably, bashfully and maybe a bit anx- iously) in the passenger seat. afternoon in the New On any given Friday There are more than 3.4 million New York summer, offices clear out early, week- York driver's licenses on file in the five end bags are hoisted onto shoulders, and boroughs, but the city is home to a surpris- many of those city dwellers who are, in ing number of capable professionals, pre- colder months, perfectly happy to live con- crete-encircled lives — they who, like the cocious 20-somethings and settled 50- poet and devoted New Yorker Frank somethings alike who can't do what the av- O'Hara, "can't even enjoy a blade of grass erage 16-year-old in the Great Plains does unless I know there's a subway handy" — daily. They cannot, or do not, drive. slide into cars and head out of town. "It's a syndrome," said Amy Fine Col- Some of them just happen to be riding CONTINUED ON PAGE E7 EFTA01202786 Sent from Soon-Yi's iPhone EFTA01202787