You want to be a part of it
NEW York, New York. Greatest city on Earth . . . capital of the world . . . center of civilization’s gravity . . . and we’re turning into Al Capone’s Chicago.
But we’re No. 1 in terms of filming movies and television. So many stars relocating here from moviedom’s Wallowwood that nobody stops to gaze at them anymore. Locals just continue crossing against the light, dodging bicycles, cursing construction, triple-parking, bitching about the cost, bitching about the garbage, bitching about the rent, bitching about de Blasio, buying coffee off the carts and elbowing whoever’s in our way.
Where else you want to live? Wichita? Nice little condo in Yuma? Iraq? Afghanistan? Yugoslavia? Downtown Idaho?
NYC. Our state’s the home of one-namers like Bloomberg, Jackman, Scorsese, Seinfeld, Ivana, Gaga, Madonna, Whoopi, Hillary and so many other celebs, your Naomi Watts, Sarah Jessica Parker, Mariska Hargitay, Katie Holmes, where Jackie lived, where Leona lived, where Roosevelt lived, where Joan Rivers lived, where G. Washington lived.
NYC has it all
WE got us the Rockaways, the Hamptons, the Catskills, the Adirondacks, the openings, the after-parties, the cobblestones, the marble statues, the traffic, Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Broadway, Central Park, MoMA, USA’s largest museum the Met, forget Gitchie Gumee, we got Atlantic Ocean, the Hudson, the East River. It’s Chinatown,
Little Italy, the Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, the UN, NYPost, Aquarium, Coney Island, Freedom Tower, 9/11 Museum, St. Pat’s, biggest synagogue Temple Emanu-El, the skyline, the High Line, Chelsea Market, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Trinity Church, Ellis Island, Restaurant Row, Fraunces Tavern, Grant’s Tomb, Planetarium, the Charging Bull, five boroughs, Yankee Stadium, Fashion Institute.
It’s food pushcarts, clothing pushcarts, Fifth Avenue Library,
Madison Square Garden, Madison Avenue, best sirloin, best malteds, looking for the best cheesecake — you won’t find it in Oklahoma, best bagel, best pastrami, best “New York, New York” theme song, New Year’s Eve ball drop, forget Andrew Yang, stock market, Wall Street, condos, coops, Times Square, we got foreign languages, skyscrapers, subways, four seasons, the opera, the ballet, the society, the money, the hospitals, the aristocrats, the plastic surgeons, best franks, best pizza, economic capital of the world, Civil War site, Revolutionary War site. We got ticker tapes, we got parades, we got 24,000 entertainment venues.
And we got us the Statue of Liberty. What else anybody looking for?
THE National Sleep Foundation recently reported New Yorkers spend less time sleeping and less time having sex than years ago. Of course that’s except for someone I came across a lifetime ago who knew how to have sex and sleep at the same time.
So let’s not nobody ever knock what’s special about only in New York, kids, only in New York.