the victims know: Stephen J. Dubner, “The Cost of Fearing Strangers,” Freakonomics.com, January 6, 2009.
Ode to the West Village
despite the weather: Alexander Legrain, Naveen Eluru, and Ahmed M. El-Geneidy, “Am Stressed, Must Travel: The Relationship Between Mode Choice and Commuting Stress,” Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 34 (October 2015): 141–51.
“What have you not seen?”: Rumi, Essential Rumi.
journal entries and letters: Ting Zhang, Tami Kim, Alison Wood Brooks, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton, “A ‘Present’ for the Future: The Unexpected Value of Rediscovery,” Psychological Science 25, no. 10 (October 2014): 1851–60.
Association for Psychological Science: “Rediscovering Our Mundane Moments Brings Us Unexpected Pleasure,” Association for Psychological Science, news release, September 2, 2014.
Arno, near Florence: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Florence: Ode to the West-Wind,” in Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79, ed. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1876–79). Bartleby. com, 2011.
with whom to break it: U.S. Census Bureau, data file from Geography Division based on the TIGER/Geographic Identification Code Scheme (TIGER/GICS) computer file. Land area in square miles 2010: 22.83, https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcountymanhattanboroughnewyork/LND110210#viewtop.
Tips and Tools for Going It Alone
among solo travelers: Visa Global Travel Intentions Study 2015, prepared by Millward Brown.
About the Author
Stephanie Rosenbloom is the staff columnist for the Travel section of The New York Times, where she has been a reporter for various desks (including Styles, Business, and Real Estate) for more than a decade. She has appeared on CNN’s American Morning, NBC’s The Today Show, and NPR’s The Takeaway.
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