The 5th Borough

Yankee Stadium is in the Bronx, but if you have been to a Yankees game, this does not mean you have been to the Bronx. Similarly, getting to Westchester County (the boring suburb north of NYC) requires going through the Bronx, but transferring from a bus to a subway in the Bronx, as I have done, does not mean you have been to the Bronx.

But if you go bowling on 158th Street, partaking of the $3 Bud Light and buying yourself some socks from the vending machine because you forgot you were wearing flats, competing against 11-year-olds at 10:00 pm on a Monday, then you have been to the Bronx.