Everyone knows McDonalds! Its Cheap, and its everywhere. White’s NY probably didn’t have a McDonalds or Starbucks on every corner. Also this isn’t actually at 42nd and Third, its on 23rd and First.
This is on the River, and there’s a place to run and walk your dog if you have one. It’s nice to just sit when the weather is nice! And its near our dorms, so its easy to walk to!
Central Park! Everyone knows Central Park, but I think its gotten better because now there are no more shanty towns in the fields, although with our recent recession maybe people will move back into Central Park.
This is my interpretation of what New Yorkers are like. We’re rude and we have a lot of attitude. This is probably why in White’s time, people thought New York was nice, but they didn’t want to move here.
This is me and Christina at one of our favorite hangout places. Its an outdoor hookah bar. It’s a nice place to meet new people and experience a culture that isn’t our own.
This is at the Pier on Riverside on the West Side. The West side gets no love anymore. But its hard to imagine 1000 foot ships coming into this river, but if White says so it must be true.
This picture came out tiny. Its of me with a person I met playing darts. New York is definitely a place to meet people, which is awesome.
South Street Seaport and the Brooklyn Bridge. I feel like South Street Seaport doesn’t get lot of love, but it’s definitely kind of like its own little town within New York. Which is interesting, there are lots of places to eat and shop and street performers. I think it embodies New York in that sense a lot.
This is the New York of my adolescence! My roof in Washington Heights! In one direction you can see all of New York (the empire state building, the statue of liberty) and in the other the George Washington Bridge. You can’t see it but the roof is covered in street art, and its beautiful and the city should look more like my roof.
This is on 215th street. There are lots of place that you can see if you just climb over fences and ignore the “DO NOT ENTER” signs. This is on the Hudson River and theres perfect little place to sit on a rock and hang out and theres no trash because no one knows that it exists!