I just expected like a flat New York “too tame to be fun” city but was met with mountains, beaches, and so many bizarre but charming events.
Not that I don’t like New York but it has changed a lot. I don’t want to say it lost its personality but I feel like a lot of big cities have become idk… commercialized?
The food in Hong Kong was pretty disappointing tho or maybe I built it up too much in my head. I went to so many restaurants that were recommended to me by either locals or expats and they were all so bland. Which is wild because I didn’t have to go far across the border into China to find amazing dishes.
Same-same, the City is Times Square, Herald Square, a rockin’ flea market, museums, apartments, bars, Mollys and Ryans for sure, pizza, zoos, Nuts4Nuts carts hiding the downtown smell in '01 and WoW/UnionSqCafe/11MadisonPk.
Now that ZlataPraha is closed in Astoria, half the pizza joints and shops are lifecycled out to something else, and the crime has come up under a succession of milquetoast mayors, I dream of a NYC that never existed so it’s something we never lost.
Hong Kong
I just expected like a flat New York “too tame to be fun” city but was met with mountains, beaches, and so many bizarre but charming events.
Not that I don’t like New York but it has changed a lot. I don’t want to say it lost its personality but I feel like a lot of big cities have become idk… commercialized?
The food in Hong Kong was pretty disappointing tho or maybe I built it up too much in my head. I went to so many restaurants that were recommended to me by either locals or expats and they were all so bland. Which is wild because I didn’t have to go far across the border into China to find amazing dishes.
New York City is only Times Square in my mind. I’ve never been.
I lived near JSq (07306) for a number of years.
Same-same, the City is Times Square, Herald Square, a rockin’ flea market, museums, apartments, bars, Mollys and Ryans for sure, pizza, zoos, Nuts4Nuts carts hiding the downtown smell in '01 and WoW/UnionSqCafe/11MadisonPk.
Now that ZlataPraha is closed in Astoria, half the pizza joints and shops are lifecycled out to something else, and the crime has come up under a succession of milquetoast mayors, I dream of a NYC that never existed so it’s something we never lost.