New York 'Tude

Sign in Downtown Manhattan

"New York I thought I knew before moving here. I’d played here and done a lot of work here. But moving was a big shock. I didn’t know there would be so much hassle on a day-to-day basis. It doesn’t take long for me to get what a friend of mine calls a ‘tude’--like attitude, New York style. It’s not quite a bitchiness, but a crankiness, a short fuse."
Connie Chung, Los Angeles Times