I have to agree with today's Q. For my first trip into New York City, I came in through the Port Authority at 1am. I had to step over the homeless, literally, sleeping with their cracks in the air. It was quite a culture shock to a boy from Arkansas!
My bus went through Midtown and I got off by Times Square. I could tell that New York has an obsession with the new, the glitz and the glamour. I'm a techie and a futurist, but even I was turned off by the pretense of all the lights. The brilliant skyline and the dirty street showed me two very different conflicting worlds. New York has an identity crisis.
But it was the rest of New York City that charmed me. It was the neighborhoods, the shops, the parks and the people. That is the real charm of New York. And, I've missed it every day since.
My bus went through Midtown and I got off by Times Square. I could tell that New York has an obsession with the new, the glitz and the glamour. I'm a techie and a futurist, but even I was turned off by the pretense of all the lights. The brilliant skyline and the dirty street showed me two very different conflicting worlds. New York has an identity crisis.
But it was the rest of New York City that charmed me. It was the neighborhoods, the shops, the parks and the people. That is the real charm of New York. And, I've missed it every day since.
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