The context in which I usually find “New York minute” seems to suggest it is a very short interval, e.g., “I would do Brittany Spears in a New York minute.” However, given union worker’s propensity to milk any paid-by-the-hour activity, it seems to me a New York minute should be longer than it’s generic counterpart. The archives appear silent on the subject. Surely someone knows this.
From the time you land at Kennedy to the time you get mugged.
I’ve heard it defined as the brief interval between the time the traffic light first turns green and the driver behind you starts honking (in NY, at least).
It refers to the speedy, hustle-bustle of those craaaaazy New Yorker’s. I think the common acceptance is that it is synonymous with “a second”.
No, that’s a “New York second”. So ostensibly sixty of those would make a New York minute.
Just long enough for everything to change.
It’s over, already, ya missed it, now get a move on!
rjung said:
You’ve managed to miss the joke completely. Are you reading the same thread as the rest of us?