Scenes from New York City

I realized I had shared descriptions and pictures of certain well known places in New York, but hadn’t shown you what may be the essence of the city. Standing on any corner you can experience New York—street vendors, traffic noise, flashing neon signs (I guess today they are mostly computerized digital images), and a jagged skyline of skyscrapers, church spires, and midrise tenements.

It is a city of sculpture and elaborate design making a walk along city streets almost like a museum tour. It’s a noisy place with so much traffic and so many people crowded into the space between the rows of buildings. The smell is a rich mixture of an aroma that can only occur in a large city—the blending of exhaust fumes, street food, and the mass of humanity. Then there are the people, thousands and thousands of people from the far corners of the globe. You may hear 10 different languages spoken as you wait to cross a street. Colorful people in a colorful city.

Here are a few shots taken as we made our way along the city street. I didn’t add captions; they are just street scenes that will hopefully give you a little flavor of the Big Apple.

So, I end this posting with the same sentiment as yesterday—this is an awesome and awe-inspiring city worthy of many more visits.