Daily Archives: September 25, 2013

A Walk in New York

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“New York is the city that never sleeps” i never understood this quote until i witnessed walking NYC in daylight and night. New York is the only place where you see people walking all over the place they’re either running to work, trying to catch the bus or train before it leaves, or just trying to get home.

i remember one night i came out early out work around 1am, so i decided to go to 42nd street Times Square one of the most places that New Yorkers know. When i arrived there all i saw was the big beautiful bright lights everywhere! Times Square looks so amazing at night nothing compared in the daylight. I love going to Times Square at night now, just watching the lights glowing in the dark night sky is so incredible! I was surprised that there were still so many people walking around, running, bumping into people etc, like if it was during the day. That when i understood that NYC never sleeps because there’s always people walking around, the people is what keeps NYC so alive!

A Walk In New York

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I was born in New York but I left at the age of about 5-6 to Florida so I didn’t really remember anything. A few years later I came back to visit New York and was amazed by how different a place could look. I was not used to buildings being more than 3 floors high and when I came here there were no building less than 2 levels high, it was crazy to me that I’d have to turn my head to see one whole building. It wasn’t only the buildings,  I also remember a disticnt garbage smell that I have forever associated with this city, I feel like there is no fresh air anywhere due to all the cars and factories in such a tiny area. Also the atmosphere was weird, there was so much graffiti everywhere and nothing looked clean, and the people here looked so much meaner. The streets were 10 times smaller than what I was used to and we’d hit a traffic light every 100 feet or so. However the city felt so raw and it made me feel alive in a way because of the authentic vibe that seemed to be ringing through every corner.

Walking New York

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I’ve lived in Queens for pretty much my whole entire life. Out of all the long walks I’ve had, I will never forget my senior year prom night. A bunch of friends and I decided not to go to prom because we didn’t have any interest for the once in a life time special event. Since it was one of my friends birthday, we decided to go to the city that night without planning anything at all. We ended up in St. Marks entering a pizza shop called 2 bros. It was the best dollar slice pizza I’ve ate in a while. After that we just wondered around for three hours, and amazed at the amount of people out at 3am. I didn’t know why i was surprised, but I enjoyed the feeling of being outside in the city so late with my friends and these random people. Once we left Manhattan and got back to Queens, and went to Steinway in Astoria. We played pool and then ate from one of those mobile carts outside the streets. What I noticed that morning was that there was a huge difference walking in Manhattan streets versus walking in Queens streets. In Manhattan there were many stores open where you could hang out. Plus the huge amount of people in Manhattan  made me feel more alive then the streets in Queens. Queens at 4am is like a ghost town, which made the vibe dead. That’s when it came to me. The saying “New York City is the City that never sleeps”.

walking in New York City

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I always think New York has many personalities, sometime he is very noisy and sometime he is so quiet. When I walking on the street in Chinatown after school, I think New York is so active. People are rushing on their ways to lunch, chatting on the street corner with their friends, gossip everything on the neighborhood and few workers are on their way to deliver the goods. Lively New York is not created by the people only; there are very important thing that make New York more like New York——-subways. Whenever I walk through, under the Manhattan Bridge, the noise produce by the trains were loud enough covers my voice, and my music in my earphone.

After the sunset, the dark came and there are less and less people walking on the street. Most of the stores are closed and the whole street became much darker. When I look up the sky, I can see the bright moon among the darkness; and sometime I was lucky, I can see the airplanes fight though the sky, with the weak, little spot light. When I was in China, my hometown calls “no night city” there are always light come from the stores and people still shopping on the streets or walking after dinner. For me, walking in Chinatown at night was so lonely.

 

A walk in New York City

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I moved to Brooklyn, New York City over 13 years ago. Within those times, I’ve had many walks in the city. The most recent walk I had was along the shore of Caesar’s Bay. I was feeling really down that day and I decided to get some fresh air. I live fairly close to Caesar’s bay so transportation was not necessary. I had to walk over a mile in before getting to the stairway that connected the shore and the streets together.  The streets of New York are truly unique. Each street can have a combination of stores, supermarkets, houses and more all together. When I got to the shore, I noticed garbage all over the grass parallel to the shore. It was a disgusting sight to see how much effort people give to maintain a clean city. I walked slowly along the shore and glancing at the ocean and thinking just how people even thought fishing here was a good idea. The ocean was disgusting and littered with just as much garbage as there was on the grass. The water itself looked sickening. After walking all the way from the beginning of the shore to the end, I decided to just rest. I sat down in front of the major stores in the Caesar’s Bay Bazaar. Best Buy, Kohls, Modells and Toys “R” Us were all gathered in one large space for people all over Bensonhurst to come shop. After a few hours of relaxing on the bench, I decided to head home.

A walking in New York City

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The first walk I remember taking to New York was when I was 12 or 13 , I was going ice skating and my family and friends decided to go towards Manhattan. It was an excited feeling since I never had ice skated and hadn’t gone to the city in a while. At first there were mixed feelings since we were going in the subway and I didn’t like going on the train. I had memories of the subway and its congestion and the not being able to always sit down, I always hated the subway. But when I went on it-it was actually not as bad as I thought, but afterwards it started filling up. I had to get used to it , I notice the subway was a busy transportation. When I got to the stop which was Bryant Park, we got off and as soon as I got off the subway, It was crowded. So many people walking and I had to keep close to the group. Since there were so many walking in different directions we had to walk at the speed of light, everyone was walking fast and we had to keep up. Getting out of the subway, The view was mesmerizing, So many tall building, and since we went in the afternoon we saw the sun hitting the Glass windows. So many different kind of people, some with business clothing others with jeans and sweater and many more. There were so many Stores to go Shopping. At first It was an exciting feeling but after I started getting mixed emotions, I was feeling intimidated, so many tall and good looking people , it felt like I didn’t fit in. The feeling was that i wasn’t worth being there, everyone was in a higher class than me. The Ice skating experience was a Good one, had my slips and falls, but what was really kept in my mind was the view, the places, and the People that live in Manhattan.  I do remember I had other walks before in the City but I was too young to remember, This was the memory I mostly remember of Myself and the Confrontation I had with The City that never sleeps.