Ten Best Things About New York City.

1. Let's start with the grand statement. The best thing about New York is everything. It is (within non-logical reason) faultless. I heart New York.
2. Its walkability. You can walk for miles and miles and not feel a thing because there is always something to look at, and a changing mood. But there are also edges so you hit an edge and delve back in. It's not like walking miles and then having to come back.
3. Its buildings of outstanding beauty. Ask that poli' that used to be a footballer about the aesthetic worth of Art Deco buildings. We silly Melbournians, for the most part, did not see their fabuloscity and knocked them down.
4. Its never-sleeps-ness. Altough I do wonder about the lyrics—why would you wake up in a city that never sleeps, why are you sleeping in the first place? But I do like the idea of not placing a temporal limit on sleep patterns.
5. Its wacky neighbourhoods. Especially down in the southern tip: SoHo, TriBeca, NoHo, Little Italy. It's amazing how diverse, but divided, a tiny little island can be.
6. Cheesecake, hot dogs, bagels and pretzels. The latter three from a street vendor. The former one in about eighteen hundred different flavours, and every piece we had as creamy as coffee made with condensed milk.
7. Speaking of diversity. I love the way cultures mix in New York, but retain a sense of themselves as well. There is no one way to be a New Yorker.
8. Attitude. You love it even when you hate it.
9. Rivers and Parks. Who'd have thought a city so large could have such an enormous amount of greenery in the middle of it. Central Park would be worth a fortune to real estaters. To be able to see so much water and so much green (or snow in Winter) is a joy.
10. Anonymity. The more people, the less anyone notices you. You can be anyone you want to be in NYC.