  NEW YORK New York City! What can you say? Makes its own gravy when it rains. Although the metropolitan region is just the fifth largest city in the world (pop. 17 million), New York is the brain of the planet, for better or for worse. It's all here: the world's finance center, the Statue of Liberty, the epicenter of the art world, and Papaya King hot dogs for only $1.76 until 2 a.m. Don't limit your stay to Manhattan, New York has five boroughs full of interesting destinations. In the Bronx, to the Belmont neighborhood. This is the "real" Little Italy for Italian-American New Yorkers, centered at Arthur Avenue and East 187th Street. You'll find dozens of restaurants, bakeries and cheese shops filled with huge torpedo-like provolone hanging from the ceiling. In Queens, go out for deep-fried chicken lollipops - an Indian-Chinese specialty - at Tangra Masala at 87-09 Grand Avenue in the Elmhurst neighborhood. You've probably heard of hipster heaven, Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood. Be really ironic and avoid it. Walk around in quiet Brooklyn Heights instead. One thing not to avoid, however, is a trip to the Reading Room of the New York Public Library, on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd streets, where you will see real live professional authors doing research and writing books. Remember to whisper. Right next to the library is Bryant Park, with movies screenings in the summer and ice skating in the summer. |
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