trivial knowledge gained by the experience of living here

Whether or not everything on the following list is actually true, I've been led to believe it is in the time that we've been here.

• You order a pie, not a pizza.
• How much you pay for rent is everyone's business.
• Humid weather (like the intense humid heat we experience yesterday and the day before while waiting for Tropical Storm Hanna to hit) makes it very difficult to bake.
• To be a New Yorker is to be a food critic. They are one in the same.
• You don't push a button for an elevator, you call it.
• Neighborhoods with lots of eights in the addresses will likely have a lot of Chinese people populating them. Also, if you need to sell your house, and there are multiple eights in the address, it is likely it will sell quickly, and to a Chinese person.
• Borough hierarchy, according to a Manhattanite: 1. Manhattan 2. Brooklyn 3. Queens 4. The Bronx 5. What was that other borough? 6. New Jersey
• Borough hierarchy, according to a Brooklynite: 1. Brooklyn 2. Everywhere else
• Manhattanites typically only go to Brooklyn accidentally.
• It's a cellar, not a basement.
• They may have been in California for the last fifty years, but the Dodgers never really left Brooklyn.
• Sushi is a New York institution.
• So is handball.
• Kids trick or treat at small business storefronts, not at homes.
• A New York cookbook consists of take-out menus.
• Every public clock in the city is in tip-top working order and tells the time precisely.
• Distance is not measured in miles, but rather in blocks/avenues, minutes, and subway stops.
• Once you've eaten a fresh New York bagel, there's no going back to "lesser" varieties.