| #ffffff;" /> | | | | between Manhattan and the Bronx is most famous for |
| Ah New York. If you can make it there, you’ll | | | | the many theatres, both large and small, which line the |
| make it anywhere. Sound familiar? It should! It is the | | | | street. Many a career has been made or |
| catchphrase of one of the most famous musical odes | | | | ‘broke’ here in the hallowed halls, and |
| the city has ever known. Barring perhaps her French | | | | some of Hollywood’s best-known names have |
| counterpart, Paris, there is no city in the world which | | | | served their apprenticeships treading the boards on |
| has been so prolifically honoured in song or pose as | | | | Broadway. |
| New York. Sightseeing the city’s most famous, | | | | New York State of Mind |
| and infamous, landmarks and monuments, it is easy to | | | | Billy Joel, one of America’s best-loved singer |
| see why so many have been inspired by her beauty | | | | songwriters penned his own love-song to the city back |
| and character. | | | | in 1978 and people are still singing it today. Growing up |
| New York, New York | | | | in the Bronx, Billy Joel forged an enduring romance with |
| So good they named it twice! Frank Sinatra sang | | | | New York and his song tells of having travelled around |
| joyously about arriving in New York from his small | | | | the world living the high life mixing with movie stars |
| town roots and feeling like he could do anything, and | | | | (Hollywood); and experiencing some of the most |
| be anyone in such a magnificent city. While | | | | beautiful natural landscapes in the world (in the |
| you’re sightseeing New York’s fabled | | | | Rockies); but still, when it came down to it, for him, he |
| streets after dark it is not hard to see he was right | | | | would forever be “in a New York state of |
| about waking up “in a city that doesn’t | | | | mind”. Sightseeing New York’s Bronx |
| sleep”. New York has an almost tangible, | | | | district today, one is struck by the amount of fresh |
| beating heart which may slow to a dull thud in the wee | | | | urbanisation occurring in what has previously been |
| small hours, but never actually sleeps. Take a walk, | | | | described as America’s ‘worst |
| with a friend of course, along Pell St towards Bowery | | | | neighbourhood’. |
| and indulge your desire for a foot massage at 1am | | | | Angel of Harlem |
| and you will start to understand just what ol’ | | | | Modern music’s most famous super-band, U2, |
| Blue Eyes was on about. | | | | had a monster hit with their homage to New York |
| Broadway | | | | – Angel of Harlem. Singing about touching down |
| George Benson, that wonderful soulful smoothie, sang | | | | at JFK on a cold and rainy December day may not, on |
| poignantly about the superficial magic in the air | | | | paper, seem poetic, however the passion and feeling |
| “on Broadway”, where, if you scratch | | | | with which Bono croons the lyrics certainly is. |
| the surface, beneath the glitz and glamour of a life in | | | | U2’s story of the underground music scene in |
| lights is a seedy undertone of failure and hunger. Well, | | | | Harlem will resonate with anyone who has visited the |
| despite George’s pessimism, today, Broadway | | | | seedy but soulful clubs like the Cotton Club or the |
| is still one of the most popular places on the itinerary | | | | Lennox Lounge. |
| of sightseeing New York. This long, wide stretch | | | | |