Affectionate portrait of Timothy "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses. | dG1fOEhXYUhCYXFhams
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00:00 [silence]
00:07 [music]
00:08 World Trade Center, Battery Park, Statue of Liberty, of course, South Street Seaport,
00:13 Wall Street, up to the other side of Chinatown, up First Avenue, Galencian Island, Orchard Street,
00:18 Flea Market, the United Nations, Waldorf Astoria, Schtick, Park Avenue on either side of you,
00:23 up Madison Avenue, Central Park, South Stop, fasten your seatbelts.
00:27 That's life. Life.
00:30 [music]
00:32 Every busload, there is internationality.
00:34 Ah, mucho gracias.
00:36 Different gradations of cruising manifestation.
00:39 This is a very eclectic and dangerous afternoon.
00:41 [music]
00:43 This woman turns to me, she goes, "How could you not like the grid plan?"
00:46 Everyone likes the grid plan. So functional.
00:48 Take a right turn, a right turn, a right turn, and then there's a red light, and then a green light, and yellow light.
00:54 She says to me, after my statements, "Everyone likes the grid plan."
00:58 Isn't she automatically excluding myself from everyone?
01:01 [music]
01:04 When you are sitting in the middle of midtown Manhattan, a city that grew up at an explosion,
01:08 an experiment, a system of test tubes gurgling, boiling, out of control,
01:13 this is ludicrousness, and this cannot last.
01:17 [music]
01:21 The new Ann Taylor store on the right.
01:23 [music]
01:29 Hello. Can you hear me in the back?
01:32 [music]