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LayoversAmericas · 4 cities

Make the hours between flights count.

City guides written for the hours between flights rather than a fortnight's holiday: getting out of the airport, whether the app on your phone works here, which local laws will get you arrested for something legal at home, and where to eat and what to buy once you are out.

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New York

A published flat fare into Manhattan, and a cannabis rule that is legal to buy in the state and illegal to carry out of it.

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The same eight questions, side by side, in the order that matters on a rotation: the local laws first, then getting out of the airport.

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