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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Frank bugalski, post: 8012191, member: 95461&quot;]Reports of the city&#039;s demise are untrue. Yes, problems exist, politics are rancid and as in any urban environment situational awareness is a good idea. Watch your back in any city. I practice what I preach and have lived,survived and thrived in Manhattan for decades. And ride the subways and buses with ease. This article boomerangs back and forth but you&#039;ll see the city in it.</p><p>Now for what my city offers:</p><p>&nbsp;There are at least 83 major museums here, not to mention an estimated 1,500 art galleries, numerous auction houses, and private collections. It is a center of world fashion, banking, and one of the largest community&#039;s of working artists in the world (especially Brooklyn).&nbsp; A center of international diplomacy with the United Nations headquarters and over 322 foreign missions,consulates and offices here. Enjoy 520 miles of varied shoreline from the beaches of Coney Island, to City Island in the Bronx. The American War for Independence was fought and partially won here and it was the first capitol of the US.&nbsp; Plenty of historic landmarks from colonial times to modern, giving cities like Boston and Philadelphia a run for their money. Places like the Louie Armstrong House in St Albans, Queens, to Colonial era Wyckoff House (the second oldest building in the USA-1652) and Fraunces Tavern where Washington gave his farewell address. We even have a national park: Gateway National Park encompassing Jamaica Bay which is one of the largest wetlands in North America.&nbsp; Five major zoos, crowned by the Bronx Zoo on the Bronx River. NYC can lay claim to being the historic center of music for the country, central to the development of Jazz and the birthplace of Rock and Roll (thanks to the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn) and where the Beatles jumped onto the US music scene at Shea Stadium in Queens. From Lincoln Center to the Russian Cabarets in Brighton Beach music is made and enjoyed. It is a world mecca for live performance from the Blue Note in the Village to Carnegie Hall, and that&#039;s before discussing Broadway and Juilliard and Lincoln Center. It&#039;s stage theater offerings outstrip the rest of the country in total. Historically we started with Theater Court Downtown,&nbsp; where George Washington viewed performances, and today we still have 41 active Broadway stages, not including the Majestic Theater and the Brooklyn Academy of Music which alone might outstrip the offering of most major cities. There is Off-Broadway which includes such treasured venues as The Public which produced among other things &quot;Hair&quot;, BAM, City Center, Lincoln Center, Townhall, The Ed Sullivan Theater, and the numerous comedy clubs and coffee houses where&nbsp; performers like Rodney Dangerfield, Whoopie Goldberg, Robin Williams, Bob Dylan, George Carlin, Saturday Night Live hooligans got their start. Before that NY Vaudeville gave birth to modern television and the movies with the likes of Al Jolson, Fats Waller, The Marx Brothers, etc. Its literary and print centers are&nbsp; alive and it was the place where great works of literature like Superman and Spider-man were created. At the Javits Center Comicon is annually held with thousands coming to enjoy their favorite action characters and each others company dressed in costume. The city has the magical ability to ignite creative juices and spark TV, publishing and interactive media.&nbsp; Movie theaters in the city are reopening. Just saw the new James Bond movie at the AMC theater on Upper Broadway. But- a mediocre picture.&nbsp; In addition to the movies, there are shows and digital venues across the city from Hayden Planetarium to the digital presentation at South Street Sea Port. NYC is probably the largest college town in North America. We have 472 schools of higher education in the city with over 34,000 out of town students living in the city studying in universities such as Colombia, NYU (my Alma Mater), SVA, Parsons, LIU, Pratt, Cooper-Union, SUNY Downstate Medical, Juilliard, the CUNY network, The New School, Pace University, St Johns University, Fordham University, Albert Einstein Medical School, Yeshiva University, Touro University, Fashion Institute of Technology, and more. If you need medical work done this is where to come. Why have Google and Facebook established major East Coast operations here? Because this is where the talent gravitates to and wants to sample and enjoy our international city&#039;s amenities. Those companies voted for NYC and injected high paying jobs and invested billions. Now that&#039;s putting your money where your mouth is. We&#039;ve got two major league baseball teams, sometimes two hockey teams, two basketball teams, and zero football. NYC operates five fine golf courses — Douglaston Golf Course, Forest Park Golf Course, Flushing Meadows Golf Center, Kissena Golf Course and Van Cortland Golf Course. And ALL this just touches the surface of the cities offerings. Don&#039;t forget our internationally known ethnic communities: Little Italy, China Town, Coney Island, Times Square, Harlem, The Village, The Lower East Side, East New York, Flatbush, Brighton, Flushing, SoHo ..... etc. (Cited from and with some major editing and fact checking) <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-york-new-york-a-city-so-great-they-had-to-name-it-twice.388843/page-2" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-york-new-york-a-city-so-great-they-had-to-name-it-twice.388843/page-2">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-york-new-york-a-city-so-great-they-had-to-name-it-twice.388843/page-2</a>) SEE YA in NYC, Frank[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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