By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! Friends A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that physical distance in New York City is actually of less consequence than public transit distance. Inherently, people’s social networks are informed by proximity, but in New York that proximity is more temporal than physical. Increasing, the distance correlated with a 10 percent reduction in Facebook friendships, sure, but increasing the travel times by 10 percent led to a