NYC newbie Taylor Swift named city’s ‘Ambassador’

Taylor Swift may have only welcomed herself to New York in March, but she’s already explaining city to the world.
The mega music star has been named the “Global Welcome Ambassador for the Big Apple” — and has made a series of tourism videos in which she gushes about things such as: how she just realized that New Yorkers are friendly and what a bodega is.
“I’m still learning, but I’m so enthusiastic about this city that when I love something, I’m very vocal about it,” Swift said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Monday morning, when she announced her new role.
In the tourist videos, made in conjunction with NYC & Company, the city’s official marketing and tourism organization, Swift gushes about the city she’s lived in for about five minutes.
She advises people to “carve out your own New York” — something that’s easy to do when you can afford a $20 million home like the one she bought In Tribeca in March.
“People kind of pick out their favorite little neighborhoods and get to know people around those neighborhoods,” she observes.
She also give New Yorkers credit for having manners.
“People talk about Southern hospitality, and that’s a real thing, but there’s also a really interesting hospitality about New York too,” Swift says.
The Pennsylvania native then gives lessons on how to talk like a real New Yorker.
“A bodega is a corner store that’s open pretty much 24 hours most of the time,” she explains in one clip as she sits on the roof of a Manhattan apartment. “You can get almost anything in a bodega. Bodegas are our friends.”
Stoops, according to Swift, are similar to what most people call porches, “but not in New York.”
“Anything that is basically a stairway entry into a dwelling, home, apartment, brownstone or townhouse is referred to as a stoop,” she explains.
Swift — who is known for her many romances — said she quickly fell for the city, similar to her quick dive into love with former flings.
The campaign also comes in conjunctive with her latest album, “1989,” which has a song called “Welcome to New York” which is used in the background for the clips.