New York Trip: A City, and More

Singapore has been putting a lot of effort to make the city "greener" for instance by planting some trees along the roadside and reserving certain parts of the "forest" which to be fair is happening in a lot of metropolitans. (not to mention some cities which has the space and land and yet not making much effort)

New York, a city that you relate to the rich, the glamorous, the young atmoshere, the latest technology, the busiest financial centre, the latest fashion, lady gaga, a city with more than 20 subway lines cutting accross each other or running parallel to each other, and a city that my uncle always remind me that has more than 100 years of history. Yet in this mega city, there are actually more to discover, in fact more "green" activities than you can imagine. I was looking back through these photos and actually manage to find 3 set of photos that are taken at different time of a day. So if you are thinking of a "green" day in new york, this is what you can do.

To start off, is the early morning park stroll. Although they call it a park, but it probably qualifies as a reservoir or something by Singapore standard.

Central Park is HUGE. It lies in the heart of Manhattan, with one end at the beginning of Plaza Hotel/ 5th Avenue and Apple signature store at the 59th street and the other end, well no idea, it crosses like 20+ streets (or maybe even more) and i didn't manage to cover it. But the idea is, it is a really nice park, with ice skating field, small lakes, bridges, a mini zoo and many many more. For tourist, you can even take a horse cariage ride around it. And like you can see in the photo, it is indeed in the heart of cities, look every direction u can see high rise buildings..

Then in the noon, you can walk towards downtown direction and about 48th street, 6th avenue, you will find yourself at the rockefeller centre where they have this ice skating place in the midst of tower buildings...

Some leisure if you can skate, even not, many lengzai to watch too... =p

And just around it, apart from the shops and more shops, it is not hard to get little gardens like this...

Furthermore, at lunch time, you will find many people who works in the office nearby sitting around here enjoying their lunch outdoors, cozy and comfy especially in a autumn day...

After this, keep walking further downtown and by the time you hit 14th street and Park avenue, you will find yourself in the middle of this evening market...

They sell practically all sorts of things, from vegetables (such as pumpkins as u see), fruits from farms, fresh homemade bakeries, cheese, milks, cooked food and even wine! (dad tasted some but he doesn't looke impressed =p). And at the union square, there are people playing chess, cycling, dancing, reading books lazing around... all kind of stuffs, no one cares what you do, and no busy crowd rushing for train or people shouting and talking aloud on phone, just a peaceful evening, again, in the middle of this city...

If you continue down, you will reach wall street and the real downtown financial centre and the southern point of manhattan...

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Realistically though, 59th street to 14th street is a lot of walk, but one thing you can get conveniently and see a lot is this...

The Subway!

This, is definitely one of the most impressive system i have seen. And again like my uncle says, some may have been there for more than 100 years... wow...