NEW YORK Times Square

[hkskyline]

Last Easter weekend, I visited New York for a day under clear blue skies. Here are some views from Times Square :

More New York photos on my website .

[Urban_Legend]

Nice glass-scrapers! That looks like such a busy place, bit I really must visit!

[pwright1]

I love New York. Excellent pics. WOW!!

[Chachi]

HK, you are from Hong Kong right? How would you compare Manhattan to Hong Kong?

[Hisma]

damn, thats alot of advertisments!

[GaTechGuy]

One of my favorite pictures of NYC. I took it from the north end of Central park.

[hkskyline]

Yes, I'm from Hong Kong. New York's urban feel is much different from Hong Kong. Although New York looks very dense and there are a lot of skyscraper canyons, I find it to be quite spacious actually. Hong Kong has a lot of huge towers clustered together. In Manhattan, the residential areas are quite well spaced out. I took a walk along the streets around the Guggenheim east of Central Park and most of the buildings were about 10 stories tall or so and gave a very cozy feeling.

New York has gotten cleaner compared to my visits a few years back, but I really hate how bad the ventilation is in the subway stations. In the end I settled for bus rides instead. The buses are very new and comfortable. I remember the bus driver even offered to let us back on for free if we wanted to get off at Times Square to take a few pictures while she waited to depart.

New York is a great city. It's in a totally different league than Hong Kong. Both cities are great, but I find more differences than similarities between the two.