How fast is a "New York minute"?

Answer 1

Coming from New York ....... A N.Y. minute is no time at all .... Everything is so fast here you don't have time to breathe much less anything else.

Answer 2

New York minute is a humorous reference to the fact that New Yorkers tend to walk and perform tasks faster than people from elsewhere.

I am a New Yorker, and here's how I derived an approximation of the New York minute: when I lived in Boston for a while, there was a long corridor at my college that native Bostonians estimated took 6 minutes to walk across. It took me and my New York friends roughly 3 minutes to do that. So, by that estimation, a New York minute is about 30 seconds long.

Answer 3

New York minute:

Etymology

New York and minute; supposedly from the time between a traffic light turning green and the driver behind you sounding his or her horn

Noun

New York minute (plural: New York minutes)

1. An instant; a very short time.

Synonyms: instant, minute, mo, moment, sec, second, tick, trice

Answer 4

5 seconds

Answer 5

8 days

Answer 6

Twice the amount of time it takes me to eat an entire New York cheesecake!

Answer 7

60 seconds time and space are not distorted in New York. There is not a gravitational force powerful enough on earth to bend time and space, well not yet.

Answer 8

My guess would be 30 - 45 seconds. A fair amount quicker than a standard minute.

Answer 9

60 seconds

Answer 10

right about 60 New York seconds.... ;-)