New York visit....

US is a clean place...very good driving etiquettes...lane discipline is all amazing....drivers all have patience ..they dont honk.......well....all this applies to rest of US...not NY!!...NY..all the donts happen here.....dirty place this city...crowded...feels like bombay....i went to this room ..actually a hostel accomadation i had booked.... dirty old run down building...6th floor room it was....waited for the lift....the noisy contraption came down....its doors were like a vault....and guess wat...no lights inside.!! if it conked out midway....nobody would be able to hear my screaming coz the doors are so thick....didn't take the chance ...took the stairs...dirty god damned room...filthy too...hated it..quickly got out of there....went on with my sightseeing....1st of .....statue of liberty....i stayed in manhattan so it was easy to get to south ferry from where the ferry's leave to liberty island...everything in this country comes from out of country....well...so did this statue ...mostof us dont know ..this was gifted to US by france .....!! .....got lucky to get tickets to get to the top of the pedestal....nice feeling it is....the statue is hollow inside and its got stairs too....and elevator..!! one can go till the head too...but nobody is allowed ....1000's of people come to this place everyday....after loitering around and also thinking that India has far better statues which are not advertised well enough..... ...moved on to 34th street where empire state building is ....while goin in the subway, we do cross the station which was originally under the twin towers...the underground station is not really underground at this place....we can see the construction wrk thru the barricading along the subway walls....empire state building is all bout tourist activity....its got an observatory on the 86th floor of the building ..everybody goes straight there....but not me.....now ...since i had got the hang of 4D shows....i had to go to one more...the NY skyride...now this was not as great as the ones in the theme part..but atleast it gives us a birds eye view of NY....the voice behind the video explains the sights that pass below...all the imp buildings and landmarks in manhattan...nice it was...then we moved on to the observatory....the ultra hi speed lift goes 10 floors in the time our lifts cover 1 floor!!!....bloody fast.....now all the while ...empire state building wants to sell something or the other....they sell tickets to another observatory on the 102nd floor!!!!...i'm good at 86th.....the view is amazing from there....no doubt u barely know wat is wat in manhattan...but ....it still is nice....the wind in ur hair feeling is terrific...then....we walked up to times square....y ...y times square....? it is nothing but a v hyped up street like brigade road....!! yupp..thts right....i found something else more amazing in times square..the subway station.....its massive and its underground..!! its almost as big as half of bangalore's city railway station....and lots life down there...you'll find lotsa guys dancing ..of course for money....on the platforms ...and one another corner v good jazz music.....i cud've found more had i hung around more.....i was goin to chinatown...i was done with greyhound buses...i took a china bus to Philly.....every city has a chinatown where you only find chinese...or people with pulled out eyes.....only them everywhere....it suddenly feels like a theme park called life in china...!!!....i reached the busstop 1.25 hr early....surprisingly ..i was packed into a bus quickly and the bus left immediately.....shocking...there i was suffering while travelling in greyhound and here i was ...in a bus tht left 1.25 hrs earlier..!!!!!..amazing....i reached earlier....and guess wat...the chinese buses are 1/3rd the cost of greyhound buses!!!!.... tht about made my NY exp worth mentioning....