A hell of a town

[Mark S]

Last week I had my first experience with New York City and I have to say that it was great. The people were friendly; a maintanence guy in the subway let me through with his card when I made the rookie mistake of spinning the gate from the wrong bars and having it stop before I was through, we had a great conversation with an old guy at McSorley's Ale House, and when we took one of those Central Park carrage rides (yeah, yeah, cheesy, but we were in New York) which turned into a Hollywood tour (apparently every other building around that quarter of the park was part of the set of Home Alone 2) the driver gave us a free ride down the street a little ways to save us from walking. The places we ate at were great (I can't believe I didn't have a siesure just passing those Indian places with all the pepper lights). And with all the people on the street, even late into the night (or early into the morning) we felt totally safe. I liked the pace of the city too. Nobody seemed to be fucking around on the streets. The only down side we noticed was the garbage on the streets. Not too many bums (something Toronto has to get a handle on) but lots of garbage. That, and I thought the Statue of Liberty would be bigger. That torential rain on Monday didn't even bother us. We had umbrellas and still got totally soaked so we just went with it.

We did so much walking that we were almost crippled by the end of the stay. Great town.

[fgalkin]

Yup, I live there.

You were in the city, but didn't tell the NYC SD.netters?! We could have given you a tour of the city.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Soontir C'boath]

The only down side we noticed was the garbage on the streets. Not too many bums (something Toronto has to get a handle on) but lots of garbage.

LOL, awwww You came around the area during Garbage day. ~Jason