NYC Pizza Rat Coin
Regular price $12.00
New York is the city of dreams—or rather, the city of dreamers, the place where you go when you secretly think you can be famous, or rich, or original, or at the very least sleep with the famous and rich and original. It’s got the reputation of being a hard place that makes people hard as well, but really New Yorkers are just a better-dressed version of the people they were back in Akron, Ohio—they want to be loved, they want to be fed, they want a big feather bed to fall into at night.
Most people, in New York or anywhere, don’t get what they want. Or maybe they don’t know what they want, so getting it is like some algebra problem where you don’t have enough information and can never solve for x. So when you see someone who knows what he wants and gets it—even if that something is as banal as a fancy watch, a $10,000 suit, and a corner office at Goldman—it seems intoxicating. Could I be like that? you think, watching those confident people move around the cocktail bar, teeth flashing. Is that what you have to be to survive in New York?
That was how I felt when I saw the YouTube video of the rat struggling its little way down the subway steps with a slice of pizza clenched between her teeth. Live in New York long enough and you’ll know a New Yorker on sight—rich or poor, black or white, young or old, Prada or Gucci, all true New Yorkers have hustle, and Pizza Rat has got it. How did she get an entire slice? Where does she think she’s taking it? What’s her endgame here? Doesn’t matter. New Yorkers know you only get so many opportunities in these madcap lives of ours, and when you see Mr. Right—or a plain slice just sitting on the ground—you have to grab it and never let go.
Pizza Rat Is the Only Real New Yorker, Carrie Ratshaw
Pizza Rat coin designed by @nyanndrea
Product Details
1.5" in diameter
Antique Gold
