New York City: A crazy place

The view from the top of the rock on the city lights of New York

Stanely Park from the Rockefeller Centre

The famous Flat Iron

City life in front of the Empire State Building

At the Wall Street

The Satue of Liberty is still guarding the skyline of NY

The Brookly Bridge in front of the skyline of Lower Mahattan

Brooklyn Bridge

Chinatown

Big City life between the huge skyscrapers of Midtown

Sheep Meadow in Stanley Park

The Times Square

hey,

my next stop after Boston was NYC. After my two days in Boston I left the city and went forward to the mega metropole of the world. Already in Boston I saw signs heading to NY. But I just started to belive that I'm going to this place as I arrived in Manhattan.
Before the bus arrived there we crossed the Bronx. everything looked very familiar as we drove there trough the streets. Everywhere it looked like in a hollywood movie. A lot of black people dressed in the hip hop gangster style, old houses with the so typical fire exits, ...
Then we I arrived some minutes later in Mahattan. The traffic was terrible. We were always stocked between the traffic lights surrounded from hunderts of the typical yellow taxis. Slowly we moved drom one block to the next. After some more blocks we passed the Stanley Park. I never saw so many people in a park!!! We continued moving slowly through the gaps between the skyscraper of Midtown Mahattan.
As I arrived at the busdepot I tried to get to my hostel with the subway. The public transport system in New York is very old and not very tourist friendly. After some time I found finaly the hostel.
I checked in and went out in the evening to the Times Square. Times Square is one of these many crazy places in NY you have to see. If you stop on this place and watch long enough the many colourful TV screens you will feel like in a rush of drugs. There are so many people and so many more TV screens with advertising. It just unbelieveable.

At the next day I did a walk in the Stanely Park. Thats an other crazy place. The park is a big square where you can enjoy the nature in the middle of this huge city. At this day ther was a marathon, a joga group, pepole playing baseball or doing just a picnic in the park with their family. I went went between the skyscrapers of midtown and visited the famous Chrysler Building, the UN building, the Rockefeller Centre, the Public Libary,...
I took a subway to Chinatown. There you really don't feel like in New York. The districts there are a mirrows of the multicultural culture of world in one city. On the streets are markets where you can buy spices, vegetables,... There are 75 percent of the people chinese. I went to Little Italy where you can go eat pizza or Littel Portugal with an other own character.
I went also to Ground Zero. There you can see at the moment a big construction site and the first building of the new WTC. At evening I crossed the old historical Brooklyn Bridge. From the other side I enjoyed the fantastic sunset over skyline of lower Manhattan. The end of a beautyful day.

At the next day I decided to go to Liberty Island. With the ferry you can get to the Island where you can see the famous Statue of Liberty. Tou have also a great view on the skyline of Mahattan. It's just an amazing place to be. I also went to Ellis Island. That's the place where all the immigrants arrived in the 18th and 19th century to start a better life in the new world. On the Island I visited the Imigration Museum before I went back to Manhattan. I visited the famous Trinty Church and the
Wall Street in the finacial district the place where they deal with money of the world.
At I walked to ""The Top of The Rock" From the top of the Rockefeller Centre you have an amazing view on NYC. You see the Central Park, the Empire State Building, The Chrysler Building, .... just everything you can see from the top of this huge building. The panorama is amazing.

At my last day I went to Rucker Park. That's a legendary basketball court situated i nthe Harlem where legends were born. Together with some bro's from the neighbourhood I played basketball before I catched the bus to Niaga Falls.

All together NY is a fantastic city which is just crazy. Everybody should visit this place at least once in his life because you will never find a similar place like that on the world. It's just unbelievable. Believe it!

Greetings from the Statue of Liberty

Karsten