Although the Ethan Allen Express arrives at Penn Station, a trip to New York City would be incomplete without a visit to Grand Central Station, only a few blocks away. Recently renovated, the landmark granddaddy of stations positively glows with the warmth and bustle of an era when trains were still king. New York is a city for walking. Its grid-like street design makes navigation easy. The multi-ethnic kaleidoscope of people makes walking down the street a dizzying whirlwind of languages, styles and cuisines.
Senegalese vendors discuss prices for watches and belts on a street corner.
Irish horse cabbies court tourists for carriage rides in Central Park. Pakistani cab drivers maneuver through concrete canyons. When you tire of the street bustle of New York, it's time to head for Central Park. While the grid-like streets have sharp angles, the park's design is based on circles and curves with gentle pathways leading from one area to the next. At the Literary Walk, where statues of Shakespeare and Yeats gaze down on passersby, Louis Young III repairs a park bench.