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Originally Posted by This Is Not Here
I'm going there for the first time in two monthes. Like Demonrail, though I've never been there, so much of what I appreciate is from that city, so it already feels like a home from home. I'm going with my mum and dad, and they want to do the statue of liberty and all that, and thats all very well, but for the short time I'm there I really want to explore the 'soul', the nerve centre of the city. How or where that can be done I don't quite know.
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I went on my own and deliberately had no plans other than to just wander around. I passed the Empire Stae Building but never went inside it and never actually saw the Statue of Liberty up close at all the whole time I was there. I stayed in the East Village and my days were spent just buying a newspaper to read over breakfast, then having some very rough idea about what I'd do before lunch (usually wandering around a specific area). Then buying a marvel comic to read over lunch (I never feel lunch is quite right, even in England, without a comic to read) then a couple of beers, then more wandering and shopping ... maybe pick up a burrito or something (I was on my own so formal restaurants were pointless). Then maybe see a band then end up in a bar till about 4am before heading back to the hotel to sleep. This went on for a fortnight and, while I'd never claim to have found the 'soul' of the city, I would say I saw an enormous amount, and met a helluva lot of people - being a smoker and having to go outside for a cigarette meant that I always ended up chatting to someone or another.
I hope to be going back around Sept/Oct and intend to venture beyond the five boroughs this time - maybe take a couple of days out to visit Long Island. But really, I'm not one for the sights (the Wonder Wheel aside, lol) preferring to just stumble across things more by luck than design.