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On the night of Guy Fawkes in New York, dad was burned. In England, November 5 was considered a significant day. A century and a half have passed since the Catholic Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the Protestant parliament, after which it became customary to burn his effigy every year. For this very reason, the celebrations were in many ways reminiscent of the ancient rituals of Halloween. Guy Fawkes Night has come to New York. Over time, however, New Yorkers decided to improve upon the old English rite and get to the bottom of it. They dragged a stuffed animal of the Pope himself through the streets with further burning in the evening on a huge fire, and everyone rejoiced. At least almost everything. Urban Catholics could have argued, but they were few, and they were smart enough to keep quiet.

Recent historical writings, especially Russell Shorto's remarkable book The Island at Center of the World, dedicated to New Amsterdam, emphasize the immutability of personal and civil liberty bequeathed to New York by the Dutch.

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In the darkness, New York changed beyond recognition, and Sinatra's songs began to sound out of tune. And on the streets of this city, night New York, dark deeds are done.

From these spring, winter, summer smells?
Everyone knows the smell of winter or autumn. That's exactly what is mixed in the air, to anywhere - from Moscow to new York, you could maximize the window, and even blind to say! now spring?

I love new York in the summer, in the afternoon, when it's completely empty. There's something sensual, overripe, as if standing to substitute hands - and they will begin to fall strange fruit.

To live in poverty in the pastoral Pennsylvania - not the same thing as to live in poverty in new York city.

Such a country, where the newspaper "new York times" flashed the announcement: "seasonal work is accepted high school students who know how to count". It became clear that the myths and legends about glorious America does not correspond to the realities of life.

Something in the life of a celebrity I like. For example, new York seem like a small town because you're smiling.

The purpose of the Board - robbery; their chests thread receives all the income. Just a stranger being in their city, succeeds only if indulges their interests, and inevitably doomed to failure, if you do not give yourself to use to their advantage. Major publisher of the popular the Bishop is people preaching their doctrines; the famous statesman is a person constituting the pleasing of the law, a good lawyer is lawyer who helps them deceive the public.

The city, ruled by the mighty force, the power of money, the main role here played the famous rich family, who for several generations held the power in their hands, and accustomed to consider the city with all its millions of inhabitants as their ancestral patrimony. They completely own - it's all squeezed in their fist.

In new York, achieve nothing if not to go ahead and not grab everything I can. Otherwise people will use you for their benefit.

New York. Perhaps the only city in the world, able to compete with Paris in the sense of the utter otherness of it.

- Are you new in town?
- I have seen almost all movies by woody Allen, does that count?
- No, no smell of trash and broken dreams.