Last time I was in this nasty city was November 2006. The air was cold, Thanksgiving and Christmas were around the corner and protestors had once again started picketing in front of the Radio City Music Hall. I was technically in Hoboken, NJ but there wasn’t much difference really… both sides of the Hudson are nasty. Anyway, we jumped the ferry, caught a bus and ate dinner at the ESPN restaurant in Time Square that night. I didn’t “enjoy” it… but I was with co-workers on reprieve from a week long certification program in Jersey so it was ok.
Fast forward 5 years and I’m back in this nasty town for another week. Only this time its during 100 degree weather and the air is putrid and rank. If you’ve never walked 15 blocks in heat like this only to find the that the city’s stench still lives in your beard the next day its really hard to describe the distaste I have for this wretched town.
If I lived here I would surely have to be on drugs, booze or some other poison just to attempt to mute the volume and slow the pace.
New York City is a place where every 2 columns of every building has a crack in the wall with a store between it. A city that smells like puke and looks like filth with lots of neon lights. Where even the homeless chastise you for walking through their living room when you cross the street. It is a place where pedestrians are targets, lanes are suggestions, horns are cuss words and cab drivers are immigrants from Turkey. If you don’t like NASCAR, get motion sickness easy or just don’t have a taste for sudden stops and foreign gibberish then stay out of the cabs.
I like to visit the east coast every once in a great while but right now I’m only on day 3 of 5 and all I can think about is getting in the wind and burning my clothes. I’ve had it with this disgusting city.
After snapping 600 pictures on the street so far though, here’s a shot that I really thought looked cool:
NYC… Ugh! Keep it. I’ll be done throwing up and jumping on the first thing out of here on Friday.