Kind of funny how different people are. I worked in midtown for seven years and I would just go between home and work as quickly as I could on most days because there were too many people around outside for me to feel comfortable. (I lived near the office so that I could avoid taking the subway.) My dog, however, loved the crowds. The thing about living in a twenty story building that allows dogs is that there are enough dogs in the building that the maintenance people have to hose down the sidewalk every day in warm weather and it still smells like dog pee, but that’s a plus for the dogs…