By Fabio & Federica
New York changes you for real.
Let’s assume you are young and on your way to find yourself, that you want something more than the small village you were born into.
That’s who I’m addressing this post to, since there’s someone who went to NYC just on holiday.
It just couldn’t mean that to me: the Big Apple’s spirit caught me and owns me now.
As I’m improving in listing things, allow me to make a list of my three weeks in NYC.
-The smell of food is everywhere: you can feel it as you get to Manhattan and it will stay forever with you.
The streets host every sort of street food stands, but if you’re a tourist it’s quite easy to pay stellar prices (of course I did it myself).
I found out Bryant Park is so much better than Central Park: it always hosts a wide range of events; from the open air cineforums to the saturday morning yoga classes, chess matches, theatrical shows.
Central Park is quite beautiful, but you will most assuredly lose your way to the exit, since there’s no signal out there to help you.
Art is everywhere in every way: you can see a dancer practising break-dance in quite a limited space as well as Degas’, Picasso’s, Van Gogh’s and Warhol’s masterpieces, not only at the MoMA, but also at the Metropolitan Museum, whose entrance is based on a free offer.
I also have seen a Broadway musical and tasted it’s never ending magic. It’s full of musicians, singers, tap dancers, writers and drawers: if you love arts, you’ll be kidnapped by their skills.
Moreover newyorkers are so nice, or at least I met only nice ones, although I read very different feedbacks about them.
They stop you just to compliment on your outfit, help you realize where you are. I guess I still would be wandering there if it wasn’t for some of them.
Every underground station seemed to lead to another place: the people looked different, the clothes and their attitude also looked different. The greatest thing is to get in touch with all those cultures just by going to the Subway. It’s quite the best melting pot in the whole world!
You’re free to express who you actually are: I saw salesmen dressed like women, saleswomen with piercings, coloured hair, tattoos and stuff.
ATMs are quite quick, tourists were the only ones who paid cash for everything.
And, yes I know it’s a common thought but I gotta say this anyway, you feel like you’re into a movie. For real.
The most surprising thing is that you can always take a break. Not all the people are always in a rush: every corner has its cafè, its garden with several benches, peaceful corners and even a park built on abandoned railways!
New York City is a place that you leave with the desire of doing something different, experiment and discover, jump on a plane and just go, project short movies and paint your hair in rose.
NYC changes you. For real.
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