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NEW YORK CITY
Loud and fast and pulsing with energy, New York City is symphonic, exhausting and al-
ways evolving. Maybe only a Walt Whitman poem cataloguing typical city scenes, from
the humblest hole-in-the-wall to grand buildings, could begin to do the city justice. It re-
mains one of the world centers of fashion, theater, food, music, publishing, advertising
and finance. And as Groucho Marx once said, 'When it's 9:30 in New York, it's 1937 in
Los Angeles.' Coming here for the first time from anywhere else is like stepping into a
movie, one you've probably been unknowingly writing, one that contains all imagined
possibilities. From the middle of Times Square to the most obscure corner of the Bronx,
you'll find extremes. From Brooklyn's Russian enclave in Brighton Beach to the mini
South America in Queens, virtually every country in the world has a bustling proxy com-
munity in the city. You can experience a little bit of everything on a visit here, as long as
you take care to travel with a loose itinerary and an open mind.
