8. Bus Stop Cafe & High Line
“I thought I saw you at the bus stop,” Taylor sings in “The 1”, but she missed a crucial word: cafe. Any city has a bus stop, but only New York City has a Bus Stop Cafe. Therefore, the argument is being made that Taylor meant to invoke the iconic restaurant and not a bus stop for buses. In another song, Taylor sings of hearing her lover’s “heartbeat on the High Line/ once in twenty lifetimes.” Not only is this poetic, but it mentions a modern NYC sight, the High Line. The railroad tracks that makeup what is not the High Line park were destined for destruction after a demolition order was signed by Mayor Giuliani in 1999. The High Line is now a free greenway above NYC with design inspiration from the industrial and natural history of the city.