The things that people see as “boorish,” well, I probably understand this more than most because it’s very New York City, in a good way, or at least a cultural kind of thing. It’s an art form.
Someone once wrote long ago, In other parts of the country, people see you on the street and say hello, how are you. In New York, you’re more likely to hear something like, Hey, fatso, who told you you could come to my neighborhood?
It means hello, how are you. It means I love you.
I think if everyone watched all the speeches and interviews they would have a better sense of who he is. He grows on you like a favorite friend, like the great man that he truly is.
None New Yorkers make really stupid claims about New Yorkers, because when they visit there, they ask strangers how to get some place and that stranger just moved there, so doesn't know either. Or they see the hustle and bustle and get frightened by it. Then, there are the tourists who SLOWLY walk five abreast, blocking others from getting around them/stand there looking up at the buildings, and of course they're going to get barked at!
New York neighborhoods are like fairly good sized towns and people there DO say hello to each other.
There's a LOT about NYC that others just don't understand; though truthfully, the city has changed since I lived there and not for the better; especially now, with deBlowhard Commie in charge and so many damned ILLEGALS.