[qohen]

"I'm relocating from London to NYC...I've heard that despite being quite cosmopolitan NYC is generally a little more inward looking."

Sounds like you could use a map:

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/newyorker2.JP...

(Discussion:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/21121

And, from 40 years prior:

http://maps.bpl.org/details_10595/?mpubl_id=159

http://www.georgeglazer.com/archives/maps/archive-nyc/nyersi... ).