Why?

New York for first-timers...

I've never been to New York before, though I have been to other areas in the States a couple of times.

I have seen Paris, London, Tokyo, (Berlin, Amsterdam, umm... Wuppertal)...

New York has quite a few superlatives!

• there's the world-famous skyline with the Empire State building, Rockefeller Center etc.
• also a kind of negative skyline, ground zero where the two World Trade towers stood
• there's entertainment, showtime! Broadway, Times Square with all the shows and theaters,
• the Met and Carnegie Hall and lots of clubs
• gorgeous museums, like MoMa or Guggenheim
• Central park, Missy Liberty

• and all these 'hoods in the 5 borroughs, like SoHo and NoHo, places with names like TriBeCa and even weirder...

oh, and I have only 8 days!