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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 On any given Friday afternoon in the New York summer, offices clear out early, week- end bags are hoisted onto shoulders, and many of those city dwellers who are, in colder months, perfectly happy to live con- crete-encircled lives — they who, like the poet and devoted New Yorker Frank O'Hara, "can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy" — slide into cars and head out of town. Some of them just happen to be riding (inevitably, bashfully and maybe a bit anx- iously) in the passenger seat. There are more than 3.4 million New York driver's licenses on file in the five boroughs, but the city is home to a surpris- ing number of capable professionals, pre- cocious 20-somethings and settled 50- somethings alike who can't do what the av- erage 16-year-old in the Great Plains does daily. They cannot, or do not, drive. "It's a syndrome," said Amy Fine Col- CONTINUED ON PAGE E7 EFTA01202786 Sent from Soon-Yi's iPhone EFTA01202787