2. If a man wants to know his true nature, he should take a walk in New York. Immersed in the warmth of heavy buildings, lights, and traffic, everyone can live a righteous life in New York, and everyone can live to enjoy themselves!
Some people say that New York is an urban jungle on earth, towering, scaled buildings will be tightly surrounded by the city; some people say that New York is the pioneer of fashion - Fifth Avenue is the world's top brands flagship stores convergence of the place, Seventh Avenue is the international major fashion company's head office; some people say that New York is a mecca for art lovers - the world's largest and most famous art center, the world's most famous art center. Some say New York is a mecca for art lovers - world-renowned architecture, Broadway operas, and the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere all converge here. So what is New York? Perhaps New York is just a dream in the hearts of many people, a real reproduction of many movie scenes in life.
New York is very large, known as the "Big Apple," known as Manhattan as the center is divided into Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island and other five boroughs synthesized the collective name. But the main tourist areas and entertainment areas are concentrated in Manhattan, so Manhattan is the most popular. New York is rich in culture, and most of the early European immigrants set foot on this dreamland by way of Aeris Island. Walking through the streets of New York, or perhaps I should say Manhattan, one hears a variety of languages and accents, with English becoming a minority language.
Many people think that New York is the United States, but New Yorkers think they are New Yorkers, and the real guests of New York, also mixed in the so-called New Yorkers, strolling through Central Park, watching Broadway musicals, art galleries to look at the paintings, shopping in Soho, in Greenwich Village to eat in the United States style and taste the most rich Italian food, watch NBC live morning news, rubbing shoulders and take the subway, guests of New York without a trace of foreigners uncomfortable. Being a visitor to New York City does not give you the feeling of being a foreigner, but only the feeling of being constantly amazed. The tolerance of multiculturalism has always been one of New York's greatest strengths, and for 300 years, this young stage, in various forms of expression in this round of the play of each unique code, in the subtle interaction between conflict and integration, stirred into an unusually exuberant vitality, but also presents a colorful new world style.
In New York, all kinds of people, visitors from other countries, like M & M colored chocolate, a variety of colors evenly distributed, as if New York is not a city of New Yorkers, but belongs to the world. The people of New York, in a limited space, generously share their city with many strangers, and what is even more rare is that they also create their own unique and rich exclusive features. If we were to describe it in terms of colors, Rome is a clear blue, Rio de Janeiro is a fiery orange and red, London is a mix of grey and black, and Geneva is green, then New York could be described as the colors of the rainbow! Different people and cultures from all over the world come together in New York, mixing each other's cultures, but also preserving each other's cultures, and this is perhaps where New York's unique charm lies, where everyone can live righteously and enjoy themselves!
New York, a place you fall in love with after one visit, when I set foot on that piece of land, it made me a bit incredulous to think that I had actually arrived!
--Jie
New York is a strange city, where luxury and backwardness are intertwined, stress and impetuousness coexist. New Yorkers have their own unique way of life, aggressive spirit, and efficiency beyond tradition. This great artistic metropolis captivated me.
--Lin Jieguang
I have been in love with many beautiful cities, it is a short-lived memory that can be suddenly recalled at a certain smell or temperature; but New York is different, I can't part ways with New York and then leave it, it is a kind of reflexive haunting, isn't it?
--Anonymous
The decadent beauty of Soho hits me right in the heart, with its detached pursuit of reality, and its multicultural presentation of mainstream and non-mainstream cultures, unlike Manhattan, which is dominated by mainstream culture. The yuppies, the wanton, and the subcultures in the Soho area are all intermingled, and no one seems to interfere with anyone's parallel **** existence, the beauty is in the pluralism, the beauty is in the alternative, the beauty is in the uniqueness, and the beauty is in the respect. I expect the relationship between friends, men and women to be like this, but it is more rare to find a relationship that blends and maintains its original flavor.
--Anonymous
If a person wants to know his own nature, he should go to New York. For, there no one cares, much less restricts, and that is when all of one's nature is revealed!
--Anonymous
Broadway is a strange place
In the city, the ten-mile-long street has been rare, but in New York, there is a main street, 50 miles long, its English name Broadway, meaning Broad Street, the Chinese phonetic translation for Broadway. This Broadway was originally opened by the Indians of a sheep's intestine path, now it has become a 22 to 45 meters wide, both sides of the building, such as forests, skyscrapers cover the sun of the busy street. It is like a long, noisy river running through Manhattan. The southern section intersects with the financial district, and there are many municipal offices. The middle section is New York's commercial and recreational capital, where pedestrians like streams of daytime, shoulder to shoulder, into the night neon dazzling, brilliant lights, known as the "great white light Avenue".
Broadway from the southern tip of Manhattan's Battery Park, where you can look out over the harbor scenery, visit Liberty Island also have to board the ship here. Along the street to the north, walk through the financial town of Wall Street, not far away, east of the road is the City Hall. It was built in the early 19th century and is one of the few "ancient" buildings in New York.
After 34th Street, Broadway enters its middle section. At the intersection sits a department store building that takes up an entire block. The giant sign outside the building reads THE WORLD'S LARGEST STORE-Macy's i.e.: "The World's Largest Department Store-Macy's Inc. ". This company building area of nearly 200,000 square meters, supplying 400,000 varieties of department stores. Customers from all over the world are greeted by more than 10,000 salespersons who speak 30 languages.
Leaving Macy's a few steps eastbound, is New York's busiest commercial street Fifth Avenue. It is called the window on America, and its status is on a par with Ginza in Tokyo, Japan, and Oxford Street in London, England. Here, in addition to the many large department stores, specialty stores, specialty stores are also many, in the Fifth Avenue intersection with the 47th Street, there is a diamond boutique, a window glittering with dazzling light. Here the diamond business in the hands of the Jews, concentrated in the United States 4 / 5 of the volume of trade, people call this place for the diamond road. The city is large, many customers, the store is also a fine division of labor. The kind of competition, dazzling goods, will really tempt you not to pour bags and baskets will not give up. There is no shortage of rich people asking for gold watches that cost thousands of dollars and mink coats that cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Back to Broadway! The slender plaza in front of the intersection with Seventh Avenue and 43rd Street is Times Square, the heart of Broadway. It got its name in 1904, when the New York Times built a new, tall newspaper building here. Today, the plaza is dominated by the Times' giant electronic news boards, which occasionally subtitle the latest news from around the world. The plaza is not impressive, but it is fascinating at night. In the evening, the giant neon advertising signs change their patterns brilliantly.
In fact, Times Square is more than just a plaza - it's where New Yorkers gather for whatever's happening. In World War II, when the Allies defeated Germany and Japan surrendered, people flocked here to celebrate all night. On weekdays, it is also a bustling entertainment center, with theaters, cinemas, restaurants, nightclubs and dance clubs attracting countless tourists.
The area around Times Square is known as the "Theater District," and at its height in the 1920s, there were as many as 80 theaters, which produced internationally acclaimed playwrights such as O'Neill, the father of modern American theater, and many movie stars who made their names on Broadway before taking to the silver screen. The many theaters made Broadway synonymous with the American theater industry. With the rise of film and the advent of television, Broadway's theater industry has been greatly depressed, with only 30 theaters remaining, and the 42nd Street, which used to be full of theaters, has even morphed into a red-light district. Nevertheless, the remaining theaters are still among the most ornate and grandiose in the world. Broadway remains the cradle of theater and film actors and actresses.
Walk three to five minutes northeast from Times Square and you'll be greeted by Rockefeller Center, the world's largest business and entertainment complex. It was invested by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and built in the 1930s. The entire center *** there are 21 buildings, they are independent, but in the underground through, constituting a group of imposing complex. In the decoration of a large number of carvings, wall decorations and other forms of artistic techniques, although a group of commercial skyscrapers, but everywhere full of artistic flavor. The center is particularly famous for its television broadcasters and theaters, hence the name "Radio City".
In the center is a concave plaza surrounded by buildings, which serves as an outdoor café in summer and an ice rink in winter. In the center of the plaza is a gilded statue of Prometheus, and the 70-story General Electric Building houses the NBC television studios. Rockefeller Center's biggest draw for visitors is Radio City Music Hall. It is the largest theater in the world, with 6,200 seats covered in purple and red velvet, and performs symphonies, singing, dancing, and vaudeville, and is especially famous for its magnificent lap dances performed by hundreds of beautiful women. It was a given that audiences would flock to the show.
Continuing north on Broadway, at the corner where it crosses 65th Street, I saw a group of white marble buildings, modern architecture in its classical beauty, which is the world's largest performing arts complex, Lincoln Center, completed in the 1960s. This is the Lincoln Center, the world's largest performing arts complex, which was completed in the 1960s. It brings together the world's leading artists to perform symphonies, operas and ballets. Its centerpiece is a plaza surrounded on three sides by performance facilities. In the center is a magnificent fountain of dark marble. By the entrance to the front of Lincoln Center, on the right side is a building similar to the Greek temple of the corridor columns, is now the world-famous New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra headquarters; on the left side of the New York State Theatre, where there are often the New York City Ballet performances; face to face is the world's largest opera house - the Metropolitan Opera House, enough to hold hall for 3,800 people.
The performers and artistic groups that come to this center are honored; once a new talent is able to perform here, it's like being on a dragon's doorstep, and the future is bright.
The northern section of Broadway has entered the ghetto of Harlem. It's not much to look at, except for a few famous places along the way, such as Columbia University and Riverside Church. Here you can see the old apartment houses, black and shabby, the residents are crowded, living in hardship, mostly blacks and Latinos. The average person is afraid to venture into Harlem alone, especially at night. Sometimes outsiders parked on the side of the road and had the glass broken to steal the contents of their cars. In short, Harlem today is a problematic part of New York.
Throughout Broadway, it is like a colorful kaleidoscope, a picture of the world in all its glory. There is the most refined art and the lowest entertainment; elegant church sanctuaries and famous neighborhoods infested with criminals. Famous ladies in the store carefully selected thousands of dollars a pair of women's shoes, down-and-out beggars can only sleep on the streets at night. Although Broadway is no longer the only prosperous street in the United States, but for countless young people eager to succeed, it is still a beautiful dream.