Known as The Big Apple, Manhattan, Heimetown, and many other names, this great city is best experienced at night. I wish I had brought my video camera to tape some of the action last night, but I just had my GPS device instead. It indicated I walked 5 miles, a total of hour actually moving and half an hour standing waiting for the stoplights to turn. What sucks is the train system, probably 50 years behind the times, has a sucky schedule and unless you have a place to stay overnight, you gots to leave just when the action is getting started. I noticed some filthy, street bums apparently setting up camp on the steps of some of the various churches south of Central Park. The sanitation department should come by, scoop this scum up and take it to the dump in New Jersey.

NYC is the greatest city in the World!
I couldn't live there, but it is just so incredible. I first arrived by train from Connecticut late one evening, bowled over by the glory of Grand Central and then out into the streets with yellow cabs bumper to bumper, blue and white police cars whizzing by, street vendors, panhandlers and people, so many people - it's truly the city that never sleeps, I love it!
The people that you meet are so unique, they have their own speech patterns and some of the most convoluted American English I've ever heard, they can be rude and obnoxious one minute then charming and helpful the next.

Great City.

Those "unique speech patterns" are generally indicative of the many mental patients permitted to walk the streets.

last time i went was around Christmas 2006. i had to run to the Empire State Building to pick some paperwork up. on my way to NBC, i saw a suspect in the back of a police cruiser kick out all the windows (that he could reach). pretty funny, i took pictures. a few blocks down, i saw two guys ready to brawl in the streets. it was over some sort of traffic issue.

the next week i hiked a historic NYC trail in lower Manhattan, which was pretty nice. there's a upper Manhattan Revolutionary War hike i haven't done yet. this month hopefully. both were set up by an OA Lodge in the city.

Red, a friend of mine who I haven't heard from in a decade or so became a NYC cop and got early retirement as a result of an injury. I used to think it would be a bitch to be a cop there, but I think it might be easier than a suburban town in some respects.

I was really concerned about their policy concerning public unrinating though. In some big cities in Connecticut the pigs take that seriously, in some towns they don't. At least I can die in peace now that I have urinated publically in Central Park. That place would be a fun place to sleep at with all the buildings kind of protecting the area. Of course the more north you go, the more dangerous it gets. One of my late uncles was jumped and tied up there by a group of savages over 60 years ago.

Never been there, but I'm coming way up Northeast in September.