This Place Thursday

**Author's Note: I was doing some research on Blog prompts today while trying to think of something to write about.  I found one geneology website that provided a prompt called "Those Places Thursdays" about places in your geneology.  I thought it was a pretty clever idea even without the geneology tie-in so here goes nothing.**

The Big Apple.  The City that Never Sleeps.  NYC.  Manhattan.  It goes by many names but mostly I call New York City my dream city.  There's just something about NY that gets in my veins and I just can't shake it.  I first visited when I was 16 (aka The PERFECT Sweet 16 present!) and I've been in love ever since.  I try to get there about once a year and would ultimately love to become a New Yorker one day.  I actually start to evolve into a New Yorker as soon as I hit the Holland Tunnel. 

MD Kristen won't walk on red.  NY Kristen goes with the flow of people (If they hit me, it's their fault, not mine)  MD Kristen takes random pictures of random things all the time.  NY Kristen finds this embarassing and "touristy".  MD Kristen eats at chain restaurants more often than she should.  NY Kristen finds this utterly distasteful and would never enter one when other choices are so limitless. 

It's actually kind a creepy especially now that I'm referring to myself in the third person.  Ok enough of that tangent.

Anyway...

There are so many things to love about it (and only 2 things to hate: the Yankees and the Jets. Yuck!).  Broadway.  The Carnegie Deli.  The fact there's a stunningly beautiful park in the middle of all that steel and cement.  Hailing cabs.  The subway. The attitude. The hustle.  The bustle.  The people.  The food (oh, how I LOVE the food!).  I can never name just one thing that touches me.  Everything I've fallen head over heals about is quintissential New York in my head.  And it will always be my home away from home.

Eataly (Have I mentioned how great the food is here?)

Empire State Building from the Strand Hotel

LOVE @ 6th and 54th

Rockefeller Center

William Bryant overseeing his park

View from Top of the Rock

Central Park

My "visually interesting" shot of the Empire State

St. Patrick's Cathedral on 5th Avenue

My Mary Tyler Moore moment, If only I had a beret to throw in the air.