"So Good They Named it Twice " a New York City Travel Page by mightywease

I am sure that people who live in New York, especially in Manhattan, are sick and tired of hearing visitors like me saying that it is just like stepping into a movie set. But when I first arrived that's how it felt. Everything, from the skyline to the yellow cabs to the steam coming out of the side walks was so familiar, so recognaizable from hundreds of movies and TV shows. Almost like one big wonderful cliche.
I know how that must sound. Calling anywhere, or anything, a cliche carries the sense that you are belittling or denegrating that which you descibe. And I would never, never, NEVER, denegrate or belittle New York. It is one of the most exciting places I have visited even though in the week we spent there we barely scratched the surface of this amazing city.
Seeing the Manhattan skyline or the Statue of Liberty for the first time is like standing in front of a famous painting that you have only ever seen as a postcard or a print. You somehow can't believe that you are really there, that this is the real place. It's a wonderful, exuberant feeling.
I suppose that is what I meant when I said that being in New York is like being in a cliche. Because the city seems so familiar it is almost like you have been there in your dreams and, once there, the fantasy you have in your head and the reality in front of you combine to create this amazing, exciting, wonderful experience.
New York is like the person you nod aquaintance to every day on the train and who, when you finally get intoduced to them, greets you like an old friend.