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Streets of New York

The best way to see the city is just to walk.

Por Morgan Burke

17 de November de 2022

They say the tourists always look up.

I mean, not without reason. There's a lot going on up there.

42nd Street

El Dorado, Central Park West

Madison Square

WTC 1

UN Building

But don't forget to look down. The heart of New York beats down on the street.

Sometimes fast.

Chinatown

Times Square

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Chinatown

Times Square

Lower East Side

Sometimes slow...

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Seaport

High Line

Bethesda Terrace

The Cloisters

And it's surprisingly easy to get away from it all.

The Lake in Central Park

The Lake

Staten Island Ferry

Art is everywhere, and you don't even have to go to a museum.

Rockefeller Center

Lower East Side

High Line

Brooklyn

Soho

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High Line

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Williamsburg

(But do go to a museum, if you have the time.)

Morgan Library

Met Cloisters

Metropolitan Museum of Art

MOMA

They've cleaned the place up. Old skool NYC grunge is getting harder and harder to find. But it's still there, in the corners.

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Although at this point, it almost feels quaint. Is it wrong to miss the city when it felt a little bit dangerous?

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Lower East Side

Canal Street

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So, anyway...

Don't forget to look up.

Water & Broad, Downtown

Empire State Building, from Bryant Park

Brooklyn Bridge

Rockefeller Center

Oculus

Fulton Street

Foley Square

The sky is full of treasures.

The Met

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

Bethesda Fountain

© 2026 Morgan Burke

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