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May 16, 2004
First Day in NYC
Here i am -- my new apartment in Manhattan. It's pretty nice -- southeast of Central Park; 3rd floor; trees outside (which i didn't know existed outside of parks here); fancy awning; etc... My friend Kyle took me for a 3 hour tour of lower Manhattan -- a quick walk around the apartment, including pointing out the Starbucks on every other corner. Then we took the subway toward the Wall Street area where i will be working. The streets there are so tiny, it's like a European city! There are police all over that area, which is both comforting and a bit odd. We then walked down to the harbor area, where i saw the Statue of Liberty from afar (i haven't been there since i was 7 yrs old or so...) Then after some wandering around, we finally found the metro bus that would take us back uptown. We went thru Chinatown, which is just blocks and blocks of what looks so different than the rest of the city -- Chinese people and signs everywhere, including HONG KONG SUPERMARKET, in huge red letters. Then into SoHo, which is short for South Of HOuston (and which is pronounced 'how-stin' instead of 'hyoo-stin' (like in Texas)). Then into Greenwich Village, which is also not called that by 'real' new yorkers -- it is East Village and West Village. All these things to learn, and i'm not even in a different country! :)
Tomorrow should be exciting -- my first day of work! Finally i will find out what i will be doing... ;)
Posted by MaTT at May 16, 2004 09:16 PM
Comments
Sounds lovely. I'd come crash on your floor, but it's taken. Oh yeah, and I have no money. ;)
Posted by: srah at May 17, 2004 12:02 AM
:) I wanted to see China Town when I was there. Cari suggested that we come visit. And yeah, I was weirded out by how tiny the streets were and how dark it was, even in the middle of the day when I was down on Wall Street, but its so exiting that you are so close to "where everything happens" ::squeal::
Posted by: Urs at May 17, 2004 12:50 PM
My friend who I visited a few weeks ago lived on Wall Street. The village and SoHo are fun at night! Good bars on Houston. You are gonna have a blast :-)
Posted by: cari at May 17, 2004 05:34 PM
It's sad that NYC is so boring that nothing of note ever happens there.
Posted by: srah at May 22, 2004 08:43 AM
Ok, ok -- another post is coming... ;)
Posted by: MaTT at May 22, 2004 02:45 PM