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I did some freelance ENG (Electonic News Gathering – i.e. recording sound for a news story) for NPR at a bookstore on the Upper West Side of NYC just now (listen for the story on Morning Edition Monday morning). At one point some young out of towners walked in out of the rain and asked the guy at the register, “excuse me, how do we get to the East Side?”. Guy at the register points east and says, “go that way.”