The Bronx is up and the Battery is actually down and people do really ride in a hole in the ground. What a helluva town!
New York is amazing: crowded, fast, always awake, goofy, friendly, never a dull moment. We stayed in the East Village and I would stay there again in a heartbeat. Great bars, restaurants, bookstores, shops, close to the metro but close walking distance to lots of areas as well. We ate well, drank amazing cocktails, saw some plays, went to museums, listened to music on a grand piano in Washington Square Park on a Sunday afternoon, got pushed around by the crowds in Time Square, ate the best cheesecake in NYC, visited some dive bars, were the oldest by 30 years in several bars and restaurants, subwayed and walked and Ubered all over the place and we laughed a lot.
That's what vacation is all about, eating, drinking, getting some culture, some walking and laughing and enjoying oneself. NYC took care of all of the above. The experience reinforced my longing to be retired, to be able to have adventures and sojourns and breaks in the routine. Alas, that notion of being retired will come ..... sometime in the next ten years if I am lucky. But in the meantime, I intend to cram as many trips to as many places as I can. When the money runs out, well, then, the money ran out.
If you haven't been, just go. The beginning of December is nice because the store windows are decorated for Christmas and they go all out for those decorations. But I think the weeks earlier in November, without the decorations, might be a little less crowded and that could be a little easier. I would definitely not go from Dec. 15 - Jan 5. That's prime NY time.
The theater, the museums, the monuments, the memorials, the skyscrapers, the buskers on the street, there is so much happening all the time, it's impossible to be bored or to not be smiling a lot. I am so happy we went.
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