Sights –
*Water frozen in gutters with rubbish frozen in them as well
*Guys selling fake bags and touristy NYC prints – no matter what the weather
*A gambling operation on the subway – people were actually participating!
*People in balaclavas. They don’t scare me anymore after seeing so many people wearing them. I get their purpose now!
Sounds –
*Hardly any beeping of horns. On 6th Avenue I actually saw a sign – “Don’t beep – $350 fine”. Whoa.
*Subway announcements. I don’t know why they bother as no-one can understand them in between the noise/static/bad sound quality and Brooklyn/Bronx accents
*No sounds at the hostel after the first night – it was soooo quiet!
Smells –
*Pizza at Johns. Yum.
*The rubbish piles on the street at 8pm
*The smell of hot roasted almonds/kebabs/hot dogs/pretzels
*The wafting smell of the heat from the subway lines – totally took me back to Barcelona
*The zillions of olives at Zabar’s
*The boiled dough smell of H&H