This weekend, my roommates and I decided to take a walk all the up Broadway to Times Square. It was a nice day, and since it was Easter weekend, there were more people around than usual. The streets were packed and it was a chore just to get across some of the intersections. We could have taken a different route, such as the Hudson Park, but that would have taken away from the unique experience of walking up on of the most famous streets in New York. By defying the laws of the Grid created more than 100 years ago, Broadway has a little something extra to give to the "New York" experience, and I wanted to make sure I experienced it first hand.
It was interesting to walk through one section of the city right into another. When you take the subway, you never really see how the areas of the city change from one to the next. Starting from the very end of Broadway in the financial district, we headed uptown to City Hall. City Hall Park is one of the prettiest parks that I have seen in the city. From there, we entered Chinatown, which was the busiest part of the city. You could barely move through the crowd and all the vendors. Next, we traveled through SoHo and right into Chelsea, and then the Fashion district. We ended up in Times Square, which was crowded with tourists waiting for their Broadway show to begin. The one thing that every area had in common was the presence of street vendors. They were selling everything from hot dogs and nuts to shirts, purses and belts. These vendors filled the streets just waiting to test their selling tactics on inexperienced tourists.
