I am afraid I have lost the magic of the city, now that I am far from it (or She? Or He? it is a lady to love?  Or  a party-mate which presents you his friends? Or just a city?)
I am not able to say why NYC is so famous, why people loves or hates it so much. What I have now is the feeling that New York is what you see in it, is everything and nothing special itself.
I’ll try to explain…
(if you have time, before reading, listen to these songs…they will give you MY NY mood; Don’t panic – Let Go- New Slang- I’ll just don’t think I’ll ever get over you- One of these things first)

NY is a huge city, made up by 5 burrows, which are Manhattan, The Queens, The Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Actually, New Yorker who live in Manhattan think THAT is the real City.
Manhattan is an Island on the Hudson River which divides NY by New Jersey.  Is not too big, just 87 km^2; but all the most famous New York icons are settled there. Central park, Time Square, Broadway, the 5th avenue, The Rockefeller Center (where you can ice-skating under the huge Christmas Tree), The Art Museums, As well as Harlem, Little Italy, Soho, Chinatown are there.
And if something is not there, you can see from it: an example? The Statue of Liberty.
But actually anything is so special, just seen by itself.
Time Square is just a place with a lot of advertisements, even if they are colorful, changing, huge…
The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge, many others are more amazing.
The buildings are nice, from the past century, but in Europe we have cities with nothing less.

Now, with everything said, I will tell that I could love to live there.
What is amazing in NY- but that’s is according to me, and I just spent three days there- is that whatever is your mood, whatever you’d like to do in that moment, whatever is your attitude for life, you can fit in New York.
You walk among the long streets, and you are surrounded by people, a lot of people; you can feel life around you, and just let you be in that drift of movement and business.
But if you need to be by yourself, to feel alone, you can sit in Time Square, and let you wander among the crowd, the people at the Cross-roads, without really focusing on anyone. They will not take of you, do not worry,however you behave. You will be alone as never and if you were sitting along on a beach staring at the waves movements, your thoughts could be stimulated as well.

And than of course you want to eat the strangest thing and found a place near you where is fresh made; or you can say “I’d like to see a play tonight” and find your self in a theatre in Broadway (!I did! Details next time), you can desire to go to a museum, to play baseball in Manhattan, to go to a roller coaster, to browe rare books, but buy a cheep used one, after beeing delighted by the last technology goods…and I could go on forever…

So, I think I have lost the magic of the City, now that I am far from She. Because what it’s special is how She makes you feel when you are here.

I want to be a part of it – new york, new york
I want to wake up in a city, that never sleeps

(* nda: but maybe it’s not so special, and I just enjoy so much the CHANCE of living even for few days in a city where the language is not a problem, where you can wonder around and understand -almost- everything, where you can feel part of it, and even go to the theatre!)