The City

I always found it strange how Brooklyn is part of NYC and yet whenever someone says they are going to Manhattan they say: "I am going to The City." Now I say it too and it makes me feel as if I live way out in the suburbs. But then I remember my three lifelines to NYC: the D, N, and F lines nearby. And if I find myself a bit hungry after a long midnight train ride home? Why there is the 24 hour 7-Eleven and Dunkin' Donuts nearby. Nothing to it.