New York is the rudest city in the US followed by Los Angeles and Washington DC, survey finds
- New Yorkers have been named as the rudest residents of all American cities
- The second rudest city was voted to be Los Angeles with Washington DC third
- The Big Apple was rated as rude by 34.3 per cent of online survey respondents
- New York’s tally was almost twice as much as the city that came in second, LA
New York has been been voted the rudest city in America in a new survey.
Second rudest city is Los Angeles with Washington DC came in third, according to an online poll of 2,000 adults across the US.
The survey, by Business Insider, ranked the least polite cities in the country with residents in New York City seen as rude by 34.3 per cent of respondents.
This was almost twice as much as the next highest city on the list, LA.
People waiting to enter a New York City subway car on a crowded train platform in January last year. New Yorkers are famously angry during their morning commute
Los Angeles (the Hollywood Wax Museum pictured above) was voted the second rudest city in America by an online survey
Los Angeles registered 19.7 per cent of the adults surveyed in October and November who said it was home to the surliest citizens in the country.
Washington DC was ranked the third rudest, followed by Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Buffalo, Baltimore, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
Big Apple residents, who are often rushing around, spend their lives jammed against nine million of their neighbors.
New Yorkers are notoriously short on patience for slow walkers, tourists and people who wear big backpacks on the subway.
Manhattan borough historian Michael Miscione told The New York Times in 2011 that New Yorkers have been considered rude since as early as the 1700s.
Times Square in New York. Big Apple residents are notoriously short on patience for slow walkers, tourists and people who wear big backpacks on the subway
The Library of Congress and the Cannon House Office Building from the U S Capitol Dome in Washington DC. Residents in the city were voted the third rudest in America
John Adams, second president of the United States, described residents of the The Big Apple as ‘very loud’.
He said in 1774 not long after moving to the city: ‘I have not seen one real gentleman, one well-bred man, since I came to town.
‘At their entertainments there is no conversation that is agreeable; there is no modesty, no attention to one another.
‘They talk very loud, very fast and altogether. If they ask you a question, before you can utter three words of your answer they will break out upon you again and talk away.’