NYC #1

Here's the trip report I promised:

In the category of glad-I-did-this, we stayed at a B&B in Harlem. The photo isn't our street, but it looks a lot like it.

Here's what we saw in New York City:

• neighborhood - people quietly sitting on their steps and hanging out with their neighbors, and we joined them at Lulu's Taquilleria, Maison Harlem, and Hungarian Pastry Shop
• racial diversity - black, Hispanic, white, Asian, Indian, anything
• energy - my niece, energy on wheels, loved it and contributed to it
• bad behavior - verbal abuse in the subway so threatening that the police came down
• food fight - angry adults at a food cart on the street, my niece called 911
• language diversity - I could only identify French, Spanish, Chinese
• subways - we went all over Manhattan in them
• food - markets and restaurants just everywhere!

In short, those New York cliches came to life - including the electric feeling after dark in Times Square.

(cont'd tomorrow)