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Finally, I saw it. For the first time. It seemed to me a wonderful place. He stood facing me, showing only the best, working side of one of a number of his faces. For a newcomer, New York is a concrete and metal jungle city. The Newcomer sees the maze of streets and avenues and seeks to get lost in it. This is love at first sight. And the city has become a space that a Newcomer is gradually occupying. In this way, a person opens the space for itself, exploring, not in one go, of course, but step by step. Exploration over time becomes a banal expropriation of space. Therefore, with a degree of precision, it can be said that a Newcomer now owns a certain part of New York. To the same extant as others. New York belongs to everyone and nobody at the same time. Walking through this space it is very easy to see that it is a city of extremes and binary oppositions. Manhattan in the center, as the focal point of everything that happens. This point accumulates all energy, all resources. This is where the spirit of the international metropolis is forged. Unlike the periphery. At the heart of hearts an island of peace and quiet lies - the Central Park. For New Yorkers, this is the second place not to go to (just like Lviv Square Market in Lviv for the city dwellers). New York is a city of high-rise buildings, LGBTQ+, wealth, poverty and migrants. Legal and or not. Some stereotypes have proven to be correct - this is the point where all cultures collide (east with west) and blend into a strange cocktail of stories and events with the most widespread narrative of the homeless and topos of the road . This metropolis has a somewhat distorted hierarchy. Most people migrated to the Underground because of the state-of-the-art underground system. On the surface, everything is reorganized to improve traffic, with almost no pedestrians there. Autos are swallowing more and more space for themselves. The dungeons meanwhile are living their lives and, in general, this is not the worst place just to be in. Every homeless person knows that this is a place of warmth in the winter and cool in the summer. A great place to meet basic needs, a place with a thousand and one traveling musicians, dancers, or such a Newcomer like me. I love him and hate him. I admire him and despise him.