The shock
The Next day, my first day in the city...I learnt many new rules like walking on the right side of the road (they say, we walk on the wrong side in India and may be they are right but I dont like the right things that much), be fast in everything(though it was not that new after staying for 2 years in Mumbai) and respect personal space of every personnel staying in...the NYC.
Though there were many other new things, but for the time being I was too busy to grasp these and decided to worry about others later. The most imminent one was to understand the city map and the routes of New york Subway. I just have to come to Manhattan using a Path train that connects NY to NJ, but after that the network of transit-buses and metro trains connects the whole city. The network is so big and complex that those who think Mumbai locals are tough to undertsnad can never get a hook of it. Their are 26 lines with different alphabet+color codes. To get confused you can visit www.mta.nyc.com and find out purple-3 in a triangle is different from red-3 in a square or a circle. The streets are rather easy to traverse if you have a little penchant for walkIng which most people do here in ...the NYC.
Poeple in the streets and Yellow NYC Cabs swarming through them look like ants and butterflies walking in lines when I watch them from my office window at 37th floor. My building is just a 60 floor building which looked very short when I saw the Empire State and other building touching or crossing 100 floors. Its all a jungle of glass and steel, with every structure trying to look more beautiful than the others. Numerous restaurants and street vendors can be seen all over the city which houses innumerous people. They have all kinds of food present in the world to offer and daily serve to people of every culture, relegion, color, faith or food habits in NYC, who live and work here to make Uncle Sam progressive. Thats what I call a truely, really and relegiously Metropolitan city...the NYC.
Though there were many other new things, but for the time being I was too busy to grasp these and decided to worry about others later. The most imminent one was to understand the city map and the routes of New york Subway. I just have to come to Manhattan using a Path train that connects NY to NJ, but after that the network of transit-buses and metro trains connects the whole city. The network is so big and complex that those who think Mumbai locals are tough to undertsnad can never get a hook of it. Their are 26 lines with different alphabet+color codes. To get confused you can visit www.mta.nyc.com and find out purple-3 in a triangle is different from red-3 in a square or a circle. The streets are rather easy to traverse if you have a little penchant for walkIng which most people do here in ...the NYC.
Poeple in the streets and Yellow NYC Cabs swarming through them look like ants and butterflies walking in lines when I watch them from my office window at 37th floor. My building is just a 60 floor building which looked very short when I saw the Empire State and other building touching or crossing 100 floors. Its all a jungle of glass and steel, with every structure trying to look more beautiful than the others. Numerous restaurants and street vendors can be seen all over the city which houses innumerous people. They have all kinds of food present in the world to offer and daily serve to people of every culture, relegion, color, faith or food habits in NYC, who live and work here to make Uncle Sam progressive. Thats what I call a truely, really and relegiously Metropolitan city...the NYC.
posted by The Maverick at 3:50 PM
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