The Seinfeld Manhattan Project

Posted by Ann on September 28, 2009

Manhattan is a fascinating little island.  It has offered so much to so many, and has also taken its fair share in terms of culture, ideas, and innovations.  It’s a fantastic place to visit, when all of the amazing museums, clubs, and restaurants are at your disposal.  For those who live here, it’s a very demanding city, constantly inviting new creations, new deals, and new ideas.  That energy is at the core of it, forcing brilliant new connections between thoughts and actions.  There’s really no other place in the world like it, and there are plenty of reasons why it continues to be the world’s greatest city.  When planning a stay here, you would most certainly want the best.  Manhattan hotel accommodations are the industry standards in luxury and style, and our offerings are carefully selected so that you’ll have everything you could imagine and more.

There is so much to offer here, that it’s impossible to even begin to list what you can do here.  But there are a few things you can’t do, and one of them is hitting a pigeon with your car.  The only notable exception to this was George Costanza’s pigeon accident, but that was fictional, despite its permanence in the minds of Seinfeld viewers.  Seinfeld ran for nine seasons beginning in 1990, and for all intents and purposes, changed the way a lot of people looked at television.  At a time when nothing was really on, Seinfeld purported to be a show about nothing, in a hyper-ironic move to share an inside joke with the few viewers who might get it.

It turned out, many of them did get it, and many more than ever expected.  The brainchild of Larry David, Larry Charles, and a few others, sparked some strange kind of fever among tv viewers, and not only in New York.  The show is set in Manhattan, though, and spoke to a demographic that was a bit different than most shows.  Instead of appealing to the young jet set, these characters were just a wee bit beyond 20-something.  The character Elaine could be considered a jet-setter, but is also one of the most despicable characters on record.  Jerry does all right as a comedian, but Kramer is, well, Kramer, and George is unemployed and lives with his parents.  And hits pigeons with his car in New York City.  So the rest of us don’t have to.  It became a classic when it was still running, and now the episodes continue to remind viewers of just how funny some of us New Yorkers can be.

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