Kip Esquire has all the details from a New York Times article about changes in the 10021 zip code written by Sam Roberts, who warns us that “ZIP codes may not have the cachet they once did.”
Roberts recounts a few reactions:
“The truth is, there are some people whose whole identity is their ZIP code,” said Michele Kleier, the president of the real estate brokerage Gumley Haft Kleier.
“I don’t think everybody is going to move out of 80th Street, but obviously this is the most famous and most desired ZIP code in the city and in America,” she said.
[Author Gay] Talese said, “The first thing you think of is your stationery.”
“But it’s not like an elite number and now you’ve been demoted,” he said. “We still have the 212 area code, don’t we?”
This is some sort of New York inside joke, right? I mean, New Yorkers are supposed to be more sophisticated than us midwesterners…there’s no way they’d really be this vain and shallow, right?
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