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Actually, the current messenger look isn't a NYC thing. It was kind of a little bit from SF, a little bit from TO, a little bit from Berlin, a little bit from London, a little bit from NYC, a little bit from Boston, a little bit from DC, a little bit from...
If you listen to NYC messengers, they'll have you believe that they invented the bicycle, never mind bicycle messengering.
In the early 90s, when the international messenger community was born, the cities with the strongest messenger culture were TO and SF. NYC was barely on the map.