The manhattan dating project

’” Garofola meets most of the women he dates on Tinder, Bumble and the League.

But while he claims he only swipes right on less than 10 percent of profiles, his good looks still net him more than 100 matches a week — and it’s tiring trying to keep up.

You meet a guy at a bar, he texts to hang out next Friday and gives you an address. All this for the equivalent of a 30-year-old frat boy in the city. You tell him you don't have any gym clothes on you. The guy is probably more into the score of the Yankees game as well. ) And then he has a family emergency that he needs to go out of town for, but he will DEFINITELY call you when he gets back. That commute sounds completely doable, considering you don't own a car and all! You go out with a friend and meet her cute coworker. He gets up to go to the bathroom...never returns, and you never hear from him ever again.

He pulls out his ex-girlfriend's tennis shoes that he didn't think to throw out (well, he didn't throw out the DVDs, so why throw out old tennis shoes, am I right? Guess he's still out of town on that family emergency..everything's okay! You start chatting with a guy on Ok Cupid (This is obviously going to end well, I mean, it started with Ok C...) and you try to make plans to meet up. The night ends with just the two of you and you exchange numbers. A year later, you guys all hang out again, same thing. Guess he fell into the toilet bowl and drowned to death? A guy scheduled two dates in one day -- one at brunch and another for drinks in the evening. His reasoning was that he knew he wasn't going to get lucky with a brunch date, so he might as well get tipsy at brunch and let that buzz carry over to the evening drinks, where he still had a shot with the second girl. The thing with dating in New York City is that we're all too selfish. You can get anything you want in the world at any time of the night as long as you can afford it, but no one has time.

Find out how the 20 something movers and shakers get digits and what needs to be done to get lucky in New York City.

Like playing the "numbers game" for picking up girls. This is the real "sex in the city" where we follow dates and get advice from the young and sexy.

Sure bro, let's get to know each other between you grunting and trying to lift weights that are too heavy for you, and you can check out my cute butt in my yoga pants in between sets. Great, I'd love to be your New York City girlfriend for three months out of the year. And in a city with no time, real life dating is nearly impossible and the efficiency that online dating affords seems necessary.

(These are all true stories that happened to me or my friends.) 1. This would be any girl's dream -- all ten are late 20s/early 30s, cute, fit and Harvard Business School grads...except they're all playing speed pong (an even more intense version of beer pong -- yes, I had to look up what that was.) This was the big date you got ready for and analyzed outfits with your girlfriends for hours on end with and curled your hair and wore your nice perfume for. You date a guy for a while (read: hang out his apartment and watch HBO.) And one day he tells you that he's going to the gym (Equinox, of course) and that you can come along if you want. Can you be blamed for thinking through your to-do list whilst A-Rod is up? the heyday of the Cronut craze where you woke up at the crack of dawn and waited three hours in line to get one and saved it for him instead of giving it to your sister, or scalping it for ? You make out at a bar at the end of the night and exchange numbers.

See how one European-American date and an All american Date get along and are analyzed by an Astro-numerologist.

Witness how New Yorkers get ready to "get digits" Before Lena Dunham contemplated adding David Mamet's daughter Zosia to Dunham's HBO Hit show "Girls", when Sarah Jessica Parker ruled the streets of New Jack City, these NYU Alumni cemented this memory of the hedonistic carefree 24 hour party loving people in the big Apple before 9/11.

People are not willing to take the time to actually get to know each other because if it doesn't happen tonight, then screw it, they're moving onto the next girl. People are a commodity since there's always a new fresh batch moving in with bright-eyed wonder and innocence.

Who would choose a date they've never met before over a work commitment? Why turn off the TV and miss the end of the game when you can have sex and listen to the score in the background? In any other city, the time you take to go on one date would otherwise be filled with an evening home alone re-watching an episode of , but in New York City, you can either go on a date with someone you've never met before and possibly have an okay time, but realistically, just call it a success if the other person isn't completely crazy, OR you could have the best night of your life with your friends and a guaranteed good time dancing and ending up eating chicken and rice at 3 a.m.