New York City. I live in Warren, Connecticut, two hours north of here. There may be a Jewish man with payos (sideburns)* who wears a yarmulke or a Sikh man with a turban in Warren but I’ve never seen nor met them.

One of the many reasons I love going to New York is to just be around such a diverse group of people. While I’m enjoying all of the sights, smells, sounds, tastes and feelings, my poor wife is going through sensory overload or what she calls "whiplash of the senses."

*"Following a Biblical commandment not to shave the sides of one’s face, male members of most Hasidic groups wear long, uncut sideburns called payot (Ashkenazi Hebrew peyos, Yiddish peyes). Many Hasidim shave off the rest of their hair. Not every Hasidic group requires long peyos, and not all Jewish men with peyos are Hasidic, but all groups discourage the shaving of one’s beard."