Becoming a New Yorker

Does jumping turnstiles in the subway, jaywalking across Broadway, eating 99 cent pizza in Midtown, sunbathing in Central Park, going to a Yankees game, and doing dozens of other NYC-centric things make anyone a New Yorker? I'm not sure. Becoming a New Yorker isn't so cut and dry.Among the many emails that flooded my inbox this week, I received a message from a young graduate student working on a project at the School of Visual Arts. Allison Braund has set out to discover what it means to be a true New Yorker, and if she can seize the title in a few months. Currently, she's getting her masters degree in branding, and learning how to create a brand from scratch. Her self-branding project involves exploring a subject for 100 days, and she chose New York because of the number of peoplefrom different places living in the city.She's most interested in figuring out which moment makes one say, "Oh, wow! I feel like a real New Yorker now."

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