1. It's so big people can only make sense of it in parts, so it seems like every area has its own name or ridiculous acronym.
2. The Strand Bookstore is like book Mecca, and you'll find biblio worshippers in every aisle.
3. The New York Public Library is so beautiful it will make you burn a TV and take out a book.
4. You always feel like you're in a movie, because about five movies were filmed where you're standing at any time and everyone will tell you about them.
5. For some reason, there's both a Hershey's and an M&M store in Times Square. Is the latter the Kosovo to the former's Serbia?
6. Not only does the city sometimes sleep, it seems to wake up late when you need a carrot zucchini muffin from Amy's Bakery really early in the morning.
7. It has some of the best food in the world, everything's so easy to find and buy that eating well is democratized.
8. The subway system feels at first like it was designed as a brainteaser to go with the Sunday crossword. But it makes a lot of sense quickly.
9. Getting out to the Statue of Liberty is neither free nor liberating.
10. The kids in The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler should have hid out in the Museum of Natural History instead. Then they would have been able to cuddle a stuffed jackrabbit.
11. Central Park is like wild jungle that's going through a Zen phase.
12. This city will win you over and make you want to sell a kidney for some New York real estate.
