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NYC
Originally found this through Avengers fandom, but I figured POI people could use it too:
Manhattan does not have suburban-style malls or supermarkets
Relatedly, I've been having a lot of feelings lately about Harold Finch and New York City.
I don't believe he's a native New Yorker, but he's a naturalized one, and fervently devoted to his city -- but not for the reasons that most people are drawn there. Sure, I think he enjoys the food and the culture and the cityscape, but I believe he has a lot of Finch-y things he adores about the place, too.
To start, if he loves hotels for being the last bastion of anonymity, I can only imagine how much he must appreciate how you can disappear in NYC, the way one can only manage in a city of eight million people.
I think he loves the infrastructure: admires the complexity and history of the subway system, the logical grid of the streets, New York's position as a center of telecommunications. Based on his comments and actions on the show, he must be a massive nerd about the latter: I can just see him following the latest developments, the move from switchboards to automated systems, the growth of cable and cell towers, the birth of the internet and the massive change in data transmission.
I think he loves the food carts and diners as much if not more than fine dining, though getting rich developed his alcohol palate (with Nathan's encouragement) and now he's a bit of a snob about his booze. He likes places with a history to them - not necessarily places with *age*, but the food cart where the owner cooks with his family recipes, the bartenders who know everyone and have seen everything, the wooden pizzeria tables with initials carved in them. I think it's because Harold likes knowing why as much as how - one of the reasons he was the perfect person to teach the Machine.
Manhattan does not have suburban-style malls or supermarkets
Relatedly, I've been having a lot of feelings lately about Harold Finch and New York City.
I don't believe he's a native New Yorker, but he's a naturalized one, and fervently devoted to his city -- but not for the reasons that most people are drawn there. Sure, I think he enjoys the food and the culture and the cityscape, but I believe he has a lot of Finch-y things he adores about the place, too.
To start, if he loves hotels for being the last bastion of anonymity, I can only imagine how much he must appreciate how you can disappear in NYC, the way one can only manage in a city of eight million people.
I think he loves the infrastructure: admires the complexity and history of the subway system, the logical grid of the streets, New York's position as a center of telecommunications. Based on his comments and actions on the show, he must be a massive nerd about the latter: I can just see him following the latest developments, the move from switchboards to automated systems, the growth of cable and cell towers, the birth of the internet and the massive change in data transmission.
I think he loves the food carts and diners as much if not more than fine dining, though getting rich developed his alcohol palate (with Nathan's encouragement) and now he's a bit of a snob about his booze. He likes places with a history to them - not necessarily places with *age*, but the food cart where the owner cooks with his family recipes, the bartenders who know everyone and have seen everything, the wooden pizzeria tables with initials carved in them. I think it's because Harold likes knowing why as much as how - one of the reasons he was the perfect person to teach the Machine.