The word surreal has appeared in 570 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 29 in “New York Fleet Week, the Movie” by Guy Trebay:
For Mr. Stauch’s shipmate Yuvraj Dhillon, 21, the “mind-blowing” thrill of the ride to the 102nd-floor perch in the skyscraper was less the panoramic King Kong views than an opportunity to be photographed in a spot where “all the social media celebrities do their selfies,” he said.
“Since I was a kid, New York was in every kind of movie,” said Mr. Dhillon, whose to-do list also included social-media friendly locales like Joe’s Pizza, Little Island and Shake Shack. “I also want to go to Central Park because it’s in ‘Home Alone,’” he said. “Being in these places I’ve always seen in movies is almost surreal.”
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