Howcast Understands New York City

As a recent migrant to New York City, I've been unabashed about appearing as a newbie to the city.  I take photos and ask for directions without any embarrassment.   After a few days here, though, my mission has changed from exploration to blending in.   Co-workers and friends offer sound advice, but I always check the web too to see what pro's say.   I came across a relatively new website name Howcast which had a humorous video on the topic of pretending to be a New Yorker:

After watching, I can now fake my way into being from the city; I understand why "Houston" is pronounced "How-stun" and NOT "Hyoo-stun" and will dress in all black.  This video explains why I ate dinner a few nights back surrounded by families with kids instead of adults - now I will only eat restaurants after 9pm.

What you can find on Howcast

Howcast is a video sharing site focused on instructional videos.  Howcast makes videos and allows users to upload videos.  Howcast videos have a consistent style: they start off listing what you will need, go through a series of listed steps, and end with a fun fact.  Most of the videos go for humor.  The company produces many videos on a range of topics such as sports to technology to dating.

Howcast video categories

Howcast is Youtube one better by allowing the video editor to add "steps" throughout the video that can easily be chosen, with the video starting to play at that point, making the website look and slightly different than Youtube.