🇺🇸22년 만에 모교방문!? 🧑🏻‍🎓 뉴욕대 경영학과 졸업생의 라떼는~ 캠퍼스 투어 | NYC 1편

This is the dormitory building where I lived from September 1999 to May 2000 when I was in the first year of college. It's been 22 years. The neighborhood here is really fun. If you go to the left, it's called East Village, and this is the place where the culture of many countries is mixed like a melting pot throughout the United States. If you go that way, there's New York University, and there's a neighborhood called Greenwich Village, which has been famous for off-Broadway productions and jazz clubs since a long time ago. At that time, the atmosphere here was a little bit of a streetlight, and it looked safe. If you go this way, there are a lot of scribbles, and it was a little bit of a mess. Especially in Michigan, like me, in a clean white house with a garden in front of it, a high school student from a neighborhood where everyone was wearing preppy fashion was thrown here. And then I went around this neighborhood with the kids, and it felt like I was exploring a maze. It's the first time I've ever seen it in Korea, and it's the first time I've ever seen it in the U.S. The U.S. is not the end of globalization. There are so many different cultures in the world. When I was in Michigan, I started to get used to English and American culture, so I said, I'm global. It's a neighborhood where I realized that I'm a real frog. So today, I'm going to go to a few places that made a big impact on me, and I'm going to talk about what kind of experience I had in my 20s and what impact it had on my life. If you go over there, there's a dormitory for five people. Most of the friends here were already working. There were a lot of fourth graders. My roommate was a senior in graduate school, and he was an intern at the Ford Modeling Agency as a photographer. He was almost a god to me. He was the guy who took pictures of the best brands at the time. He was blonde, but he had a beard like this, and I've never seen him take a bath. I just don't remember his name. And there was another one. There was a friend named Tom who was close to me, and he was a trumpet player who majored in music education. The emergency stairs here are well soundproofed. I closed the emergency stairs and practiced playing the trumpet there. Sometimes the elevator doesn't work well, so when I open the emergency stairs, the live Trump jazz music is always playing. What I'm grateful for is that there are a lot of legendary jazz clubs like Village Vanguard, Blue Note, and Smalls. But at that time, I came from a village where I heard Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys in Michigan, so I didn't know anything about it. He took me there. At that time, smoking was not allowed in jazz clubs. It's called the Smokefield Jazz Room in the lyrics of jazz. It was the last time I experienced the atmosphere of people smoking in the basement. This was the way to school. Unfortunately, this building didn't exist. It was an empty lot. And there was a cube-shaped sculpture that could be rotated. It was a symbol on the way to NYU, but it disappeared and a high-rise building was built here. So at that time, I saw Carl Fischer on the window of the dormitory from 1872. Now, the atmosphere has changed a lot. The New York I imagined was always an apartment with a wooden bucket on top of a building. But there was a bucket on top of the dormitory. Wow, it's New York. And there was a huge bar called Esther Wines and Spirits. It was very expensive in Korea at the time. When I went there, Johnny Walker was only 23 dollars. I bought Johnny Walker and poured it into ice. I looked at the water tank and said, I'm New Yorker. There used to be a Japanese restaurant in that cafe. But if you bring your NYU student card, they say Kyudong is 6 dollars. So I almost had lunch there. The back and the front are all udon. So there's a udon restaurant in front of here, and it's really good. I think the best udon in New York is here. And there's a brown building behind me called Cooper Union. It's a very important building. I heard that Lincoln first declared that there should be a war between the North and the South. This is the building where many labor liberation activists first did the abolitionist movement. And if you look here, there's a way out of here called St. Mark's Place. It was really hardcore for a young man from Michigan. New York is so diverse and fun, but it's a crazy place. Alice in Wonderland, the entrance to the rabbit hole. That's where it was. St. Mark's Place. If you look over there, there's an old Indian restaurant and a Sri Lankan restaurant. If you look at that Indian restaurant, there's still that. They put a lot of Christmas lights on the windows. It's shiny. So you go up the stairs like this. It's like going up the secret room in the back alley in the movie. It's full of spices. So I used to eat a lot here, but it was cheap back then. I don't know how much it is now, but I've been eating a lot of spices since then. So I still eat cumin, cumin, and turmeric when I eat food. There's a lot of taste that's formed there. And then I think it's gone now. There was a luxurious Indian restaurant. So this is what I eat in my daily life. St. Mark's Place It's hip all over the place right now. It's still a renovation shop. If you look up, you'll feel like you're in a tenement. If you look at the atmosphere of the store I used to go to when I was a student, Can you imagine what kind of neighborhood it was? I'm in Michigan. I'm wearing a V-neck sweater and a preppy fashion. I just moved into the dormitory. This is the street in front of me. This is St. Mark's Place. Later on, I found out that there was a very famous illegal housing complex. In the 1960s and 1970s, this town was so out of people. The building is not worth the property at all. So the builders just threw the building away. So there's no place to go here. People occupied the building. I'm just going to put something on the floor. Lay a wooden board and lie down and sleep. It's called a squat. This was the most famous squat complex. But what's funny about this place is that There's an art village called East Village right next to it. I fell in love with fantasy when I saw the art of East Village. A lot of young people who came to New York lived here. In Michigan, there was a Jewish friend who lived an exemplary upper-middle-class life. His mother was from New York. She's a lawyer's daughter who lives on the Upper West Side of Central Park. But when he was rebelling, he ran away and stayed here. I guess that story is more common among New Yorkers than I thought. There's a movie called Mad Men about New York's advertising business. There's a scene where his daughter runs away and sleeps with a homeless man in a squat at St. Mark's Place. And he takes her home. This place is still a little old-fashioned. Of course, it's expensive, so the people passing by are neat. But the old New York atmosphere is still alive, with scribbles, paint, and expensive stairs rusty. But I wish I could stay here like this. Of course, people who live here won't feel that way. At that time, the price of a house in New York was already expensive. It's uncomfortable for a foreign student to live in a dormitory. You have to leave the room empty during the vacation. If I leave the room empty during the vacation, there's nowhere to go. I don't have a house in the U.S., and my parents aren't here. So I was looking for an apartment here. There was a room on the second floor of a tenement building that looked like that. So I looked up the price of the room there. It was $1,600 at the time. $1,600 is about 2.2 million won in Korean money. I opened the door, and there was a needle on the floor. There was a wire, and there was a light bulb. New York was like this. 19 years old in Korean age Most of the NYU students are like that, but I don't think I've ever been a young man. There are a few restaurants in this neighborhood that made me realize that foreign culture is not just American culture. This is a cafe called Veniero, and it was built in 1894. It's my first time eating Italian dessert here. I came here at dawn and drank limoncello. I've never had a real Italian dessert before. I learned most of the contents that we covered in Campari or Limoncello. Of course, I went to Italy later and experienced it more deeply, but I learned it here at first. I used to come here a lot during my NYU days back 20 years ago. Jesus Christ! So I was here at that time. I was here like 21 or 22. Oh, really? I'm class of 2005, so... Last time I was here was 2006. Oh, my God. And it's still a long time. Fruit tarts that I haven't had in 18 years. This is my standard. So I don't know which neighborhood I'm going to eat fruit tarts. Of course, it's because I'm young and it's my first time eating it. I don't think I've ever tasted a fruit tart like this. Is it the same? It's the same. It's less sweet than Europe. It's sweeter than Korea. It's perfect. I'm going to wrap it up and take it with me. 1894 I lived in the dormitory with my friends from all over the U.S. It was my first time experiencing all of this in the U.S., which is the same prefecture. One thing that hasn't changed. Starbucks was still here. There was no Starbucks in Korea at that time. Drinking Starbucks itself was a New Yorker's feeling. But I was so cool back then. I didn't drink Starbucks. Do you know why? Why do you drink Seattle? It's all changed here, too. There are two stores where I used to be. One of them says Soup Hamburger. Hamburger was $3. It was a place for college students to drink and eat hamburgers at dawn. But I found another amazing New York food here. There was a friend named Andrew who grew up in New York. He introduced me to Eggnog. It's a milkshake, but it's made of egg whites, not milk. It's one of the New York-like shakes that you only eat in New York. And the parking lot next to it has been around for a long time. But I was so shocked when I saw that. If you park all night, it says 30,000 won. That's why people don't drive in New York. All-day parking is 25,000 won. It's an early bird special sale. I think the menu is the same inside. There's just something like that. Diner food, club sandwich. How greasy did I eat back then? I took classes early in the morning, ate steak and eggs, and ate eggnog. If you think about how I ate back then, I have to eat grass for the rest of my life.