Descriptive Essay About New York City

The city always seemed to push the stars farther away from the world in the dead of night. Rain had begun to sprinkle downtown and it began to trickle across the top of the parked cars in the street. Vernon was sitting there silently listening to the drizzle outside that sounded like pebbles falling on a tin roof, still thinking about the dreams his been having. The Coffee Cup was like any other diner nestled between apartments and liquor stores. There was seven cut-up stools and behind them against the wall sat a cigarette machine and no smoking sign. The counter was worn from years of service. Two booths sat facing the storefront windows

New York, a state that is well known but feared. When meeting a New Yorker most people will expect to meet someone who is intimidating, fast paced, rude, and a little cocky and honestly they would be right most of the time but this is because they operate within a different state of mind, the mind set of step up, speed up, or get the F out of the way. New York is the melting pot of the world, being one of the most diverse places of culture, food, being the center of financial trading, fashion, entertainment and having the ability to come together during hardship.

Carl hurried through the streets of Boston, his Red Sox baseball cap pulled low over his eyes to cover his graying hair and his mail clutched tightly in his fist. He strode into his cramped apartment and paused in front of the pile of blank canvases leaning against the couch, collecting dust. Carl hadn’t worked in days. His profession wasn’t the kind to call and demand that he return to work. Though he loved the atmosphere of the city, he didn’t envy the life of suits and corporations and business meetings. He preferred to create and, luckily, he was not unsuccessful.

Living in America is a fantasy for a lot of people, but living in New York City is something even better, and more magical than any fantasy.

New York City is made up of five boroughs, which include the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Within these boroughs, there are high and low-income neighborhoods that contain either high or low status organizational structures or facilities. Each division has their own characteristics and top attractions, such as the Empire State building, Central Park, or Times Square. As New York City may be known for great food and fun attractions, New York faces infrastructure problems within each borough. New York City’s infrastructure funding is limited in lower income neighborhoods, where money needed to upkeep the city goes toward prime tourist’s areas or residents living in high status neighborhoods, such as The Upper East Side of Manhattan, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, and Lenox Hill, Manhattan. Moreover, abandoned buildings, poor sewage conditions, and rocky roads and streets are examples of low-income area infrastructure problems that may hinder neighborhood growth both structurally and economically. Harlem, East Brooklyn, and South Bronx are low-income parts of New York that lack new and refined facilities, roads, plumbing, and fundamental structures, which contribute to high crime and arrests.

New York, the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps. This is the place where my mother, aunt and I are headed for the first time ever. As a freshly graduated girl from high school, I decided this was the best place to take the most important females in my life to for all their sacrifices. However, the reason I chose New York City as the travel destination is because of the highly spoken of theatrical performances. Broadway performances were the one thing that us three enjoyed together most, after shopping of course. Our love first started when my high school had performed a reenactment of the popular musical “Grease”. It was so well assemble, decorated and the actors/actress were just amazing. Our eyes stayed on the performance and we payed attention to every detail from scene to scene. Ever since then, they’ve been talking about seeing another one so I decided that New York City would be the best place for us to enjoy theatre together. As a freshly graduated high school student, I am happy to say that I was able to save up enough money to fund this trip, making the budget $5000. Even though the budget is small, I have faith in myself to plan the most exciting and worthwhile trip ever. Nonetheless, I decided that 7 days and 6 nights in New York would be a reasonable amount of time to enjoy everything the city has to offer. Our round-trip tickets from the Bahamas would be $387 per person. Similarly, a rental car for the 7 days of our trips would be $78 per day and also, we

Narrow cobblestone streets above wide canals, rosy cheeked people riding bicycles, interesting museums, old windmills, beautiful tulips, and cheese to die for. I do not have to add “coffee shops” and the Red Light District for you to realize what place I am talking about, do I? I am obviously talking about the lovely city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

He hated the crowdedness of the city, yet he stayed as it was all he had ever known. As he dodged away from one person, he accidentally smacked into a large man. “Watch where yer goin!” Stanley yelled as he stumbled to the ground. As the man walked away, Stanley found himself at eye level on his hands and knees with a homeless man sitting against a building. “Are you ok?” the man asked. “Whadda you care?” Stanley questioned, not used to anyone offering to help him on their own. Stanley's face grew as red as his t-shirt as he struggled to get up. By the time he was back on his feet, he was panting and wheezing. “Are you sure you don’t need a hand?” The man asked. “No,” he replied. “Could you spare a dollar?” the man asked. “No,” Stanley replied without hesitation. “Lazy bastards like you are why everyone calls this city dirty. Why don’t you go do everyone a favor and hide yourself in an alley?” he said before spitting on the ground next to

Every time I hear this song it makes me long to leave all of my responsibilities and head off to the city of dreams. A trip to New York has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl. I have always wanted to visit the place of tall buildings, history, and where culture is intertwined with its people. I have wanted to live the fast pace life of a New Yorker, where I could stand outside and see, smell, and taste all of the experiences that this city has to offer. I have been building and building this ideal image in my mind for so long. If I ever get to New York, will I be disappointed by the city that never sleeps? The city that is a part of almost every movie I watch. Can New York live up to the expectations I have

Three droning tones served as the morning call of the bustling businesswoman as she awoke in the city that never sleeps to the blaring alarm of her phone and the view of the Manhattan skyline through the tall glass windows encompassing her. She was somewhat accustomed to the sirens and sounds of the city indicating the dawn of the day ahead of her, yet still, she could not persuade herself to ascend from her dishevelled bed sheets as a result of the dispiriting drip-drop of drizzle on the autumnal horizon. A strong black coffee was calling her name; the figmental, unyielding aroma enamelled the walls of the two-bed apartment, permeating Emily’s nostrils as she longed for caffeine. She grudgingly traipsed her way winding through doorways and

New York City was not always the hustle and bustle place it is today. The beginnings of this megacity started to take shape shortly after 1909. It ignited with businesses, tourism, and immigrants. Both seen and unseen participants can be revealed, each connecting a piece of the puzzle that progressed the city towards what it is today.

The night in the city was going to be especially cold tonight. The sky had been overcast for almost the entire day, leading to a brief although torrential downpour in the mid-afternoon. The streets of the Bronx outside the third-story apartment window that Leonard Jefferson Bennings now looked out were saturated from the July rainstorm and shone with a glimmer he remembered seeing from his bedroom window in Massachusetts many years ago. He wondered if he would ever get to see his childhood home again, and, if he did, would the world of his youth still exist even there? Like the final beams of sunlight of the day, his hope was growing faint as he looked out on what had once been the metropolitan heart of his

The air is muggy and frigid this morning, typical weather for the upcoming winter season. Hanbin trudges along the pavement, smoothly blending in with the crowd of people. Looking up at the sky, the remaining spots of sunlight are hidden behind protruding clouds, and it generates a dreary feeling that presses down against the brimming streets of New York City. The city lights are blinding, people are talking, and cars are beeping and it sounds an awful lot like swearing. The clamor of music and chatter are reduced to white noise in Hanbin's ears.

New York City, or what I’ve called “the city” my entire life, is truly the metropolis of the world--it really is “the city.” Sitting in bumper to bumper traffic driving across the George Washington Bridge, I look to my right and see the skyscrapers that seem to be rising daily like weeds, and I appreciate all that New York City is. From Central Park and Madison Square Garden to the various food markets downtown and the eclectic food carts littered throughout the city, New York City offers anything to anyone--you just have to look.

When you mention New York to anyone, they automatically think about Times Square. This beautiful place with skyscrapers, Central Park, and a unique transportation system. However, if you were to ask me what I think about New York; I believe the skyscrapers block the sun, Central park is just a regular park for dogs, and the subway trains rarely run consistently especially in the mornings. I have lived in New York for 18 years, and I have yet to understand what everyone likes about the “ Big Red Apple.”