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Show 4 JULY 17. THE SUMMER UTAH CHRQNIC1F 2003 It'sk Imvossible Why to Forget New York Rainy Days in the i i 1 r m m m m m a n a Eryn Green Chronicle News Editor Sleep is a desperate and sneaky creature. Everyone does it, most people don't think about it, but very few ever find themselves in sincere debt to it. the See, messed up thing about sleep is that it doesn't care where you Travel are, who you are with or what amazing and important things you are doing when sleep decides to collect on the time you owe it, it kicks your ass without remorse or Student apology. hours into an and unplanned consequently uncontrollable insomnia gig, sleep knocked me down and stood stoically on my eyelids with lead boots. That bastard stole seven hours from Twenty-si- x " 111 me that could have been spent absorbing the culture and intensity that is New York City. There ought to be a caution, a warning offered to certain people upon A 4 their arrival in Manhattan. It ought to read something like, "Attention: All those arriving for the first All time in New York City and hailing from Salt Lake City, please do not gawk at, stare at or ogle the natives. It is incredibly rude." Warnings like that ought to hane all over the city, for the simple fact that resident Daily Utah Chronicle staffers, born and raised in Utah and visiting New York for the first time, have a real problem picking their jaws up J off the ground when the famed if not now historic New York skyline comes into view. New York has a way about it. New utes into the city. It has been written innumerable times. Sentiments regarding the splendor of the Big Apple have spewed forth from the keyboards of many jour nalists. But the truest testament to how amazing the city can be is flying into gray April precipitationhating the city without even knowing it, for everything that you just know it can never be and leaving, four days later, altered forever for the bet- 4 Attention: those arriving for the first time in New York City and hailing from Salt Lake City, please do not gawk at, stare at or ogle the natives. It is incredibly rude. And that is how it is. New York in dreary rain isn't California, that's for sure, and five minutes off the plane it becomes obvip ous that the shorts and sandals you packed aren't going to get much use. The humidity or maybe it's the York has an aura. New York has a vibe, and it floors first timers like a speeding cement truck. This fact is flip-flo- obvious and unmistakable io min r ter. 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An unbelievably attractive 20 something brunette stood coddling her Chow puppy on the East side of 79th street like it was her only friend, and I understand how that could happen New York, on the outside, can seem unbelievably bitter and cold. That frigidity hits a tourist hard. New York exists in movies and television shows as a perfect and serendipitous deity of a city, but seeing it in person for the first time can be like chatting and drinking with a childhood celebrity crush-i- t's guaranteed to be one strange and amazing ordeal, but when it's over, you'll never be able to see him or her in the same transcendent light again. Or maybe not. Maybe New York, specifically Manhattan, is like that one celebrity who gets better every time you see him or her. Maybe Manhattan is like the one celebrity who you don't give much credit to, the one whose name you know only because everyone else knows to discover that that celebrity is a veritable diamond in the rough. Maybe that's it, because the kind of affection that comes about by surprise is eerie and lingering, and is sure felt in New York City. The Upper West Side isn't like the rest of the city it's Donald Trump's stomping ground. It's the part of the city where material wealth and possession are viable substitutes for character. Trump Towers and Riverside high rises loom ominously in this part of town as an inescapable reminder that no matter how much money you make a year, someone else makes more and, therefore, is much happier than you. it-- only Summer Rates Words: ?8.oo Words: ?io,oo 21-4- personal skepticism that New York SH0WT1HES FOR SEQUELS THAT ARE BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL YiTEKJuly 11th f 7th Right. The Upper West Side is an area of distortion, and while false delusions may suggest otherwise, it is definitely the New York exception, not the rule. The rule, in Manhattan, is places like S0H0, Greenwich Village, and Broadway places that are reminis cent of artisans and poets rather than businessmen and lawyers. Broadway in the rain looks significantly better than the rest of the city. In fact, Broadway in the rain is how it's supposed to be. Broadway in the rain broods, and it makes the theaters on its flanks legitimate, as if the rain adds intellectual-authenticit- y points to the area with every that falls. drop Broadway is where tourists pay "Rent," where "The Man of La Man-cha- " wanders the streets, and where "The Phantom of the Opera" lives beneath every manhole cover. Cheesy, indeed, but true. If Broadway broods, then S0II0 see NEW YOUK, page 6 POORC |
