New York New York

WOW, how do you describe New York. The Big Apple, A concrete jungle but with a beating heart.Tall buildings, making the Terrace in Wellington look like Lego land. Long wide streets that go on forever, 5th Avenue, Broadway,42nd Street. names we all know-but to be there!!! Central Park, full of life and people on a hot summers day. Horse drawn carriages and bicycle rickshaws plying for trade, families enjoying the funfair, sunbathers and picnickers on Sheep Meadow, buskers everywhere. The smart set at Leob Boarhouse sipping their wines-new world of course. Skaters, joggers,cyclists, walkers crowd the drives which cut through the park. Multi million dollar apartments looking out over the park from high up on 5th Avenue.
Time Square, where it all happens, head splitting light from the neon billboards, people by their thousand-who cares about car bombs!!. Families enjoying the balmy evening watching the crowd from the brightly lit bleachers, checking out M&M's, Hersheys and Toy World.
But there is a sombre side, the 9/11 site. An event that changed the world. To be there is emotional and brings tears to my eyes, how can we do this stuff to each other?
The Empire States building, you feel as though you can see the world, there are queues now and x-rzy checks and it costs to go to the top-it wasn't always like that.
The Staten Island Ferry,a half hour ride out past the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. It's free-great. A show on Broadway-Jersey Boys, special seeing it close to where Frankie Vali and The Four Seasons lived. Grand Central Station, The Village, Brooklyn, it goes on and on. WOW