Night Owl Cards

One of the best ways to endear yourself to an Upstate New Yorker like me is upon hearing that I am from New York say things like: "How can you stand the traffic?" Yeah, that's the best. Or ask me if I've watched any Broadway shows, or how much Yankees/Mets tickets go for, or if you can still visit the Statue of Liberty. The fact is I live in a place where traffic is almost never an issue (except for exceptionally slow drivers), and where I have as much access to the Yankees or the Statue of Liberty as someone who lives in Virginia. Upstate New York is very different from the perception. It covers a large area. It has some cities, but there are places I can go to in Upstate NY that look very much like you're in the middle of Wyoming. In fact, there is a county in the state named "Wyoming." Still the vast majority of out-of-state people hear "New York City" when I say that I live in New York. So one might assume then that all of us...