With use cuffs ...

… I knew as a young bud the text in a TV magazine from the 70s. That the bald-headed "Policeman" ( accurate: New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant ) did not go with cuffs on manhunt, I realized, as I gained more security in reading:

It was the local name for his work: Somewhere far away in the Amis, where everything eh much more modern, was larger and ever, and welcomed the cars still Straßenkreuzer.
Der Name Manhattan (orig. Manna-hata) comes from an Algonquian Indian language, the Lenape, meaning approximately "hilly country".

By a spontaneous idea I got my cousin, now even a bald head, the chance of a Kojak, mind you no Cuffs. Instead of lollipop but armed with a digital photo case.

On 9.12.2010 was the departure exciting again, since placed a heavy snow front on the Frankfurt airport. Instead of 08:20 Then we started with a delay of 1 hour, since the Enteisungsmannschaften came barely keep their tasks.

The decision to fly with Air Singapure was spot, because the whole flight extremely relaxed designed. A not quite fully booked Fugzeug made the place on some seats, very airy. The very pretty flight attendants with her radiant smile did their best, to create a relaxed cozy warm atmosphere of the passengers to broad.

That ca. 8hour flight we landed at JFK Airport in Queens, New York City. Again and again I have to wonder what a brute force with the kinetic energy of approximately. 280 Tons of 300 km / h is converted into heat and delay. The 747 then curved perceived 60 min between the perceived 24 Runways back and forth, and then locked into position on trunk, um seine Personenfracht direkt ins Terminal zu ergießenn.
This is the JFK "smaller" than the Frankfurt Airport, both in the number of passengers as well as the surface. Frankfurt since there is 1936, JFK since 1942, and passenger traffic 2009 was ~
51 Million compared to the 46 Millions of JFK. ((The largest airports))

The entire vermilion with the new entry requirements had me pretty annoyed in advance, and had been with me for a reason, not to travel to the U.S.. But now I have even registered me online, many answered "important" questions, these records a second time on the plane to another list, and then make the entries in the registry AFTER. Also my fingerprints have been collected, at least not with stamping ink, but from a scanner. That was actually a machine-readable passport as I imagined everything easier and faster me. Only a little queasy I feel like, when I think, what can happen with errant data. ( Brazil ).

Finally, we had passed through the locks and entered the arrival hall terminal 4 des-JFK Airport. At first I was extremely disappointed by the very small hall, I would rather assign a small domestic airport, als New York City. But if you imagine that there are at least 9 passes such terminals here on JFK, this is quite impressive.
Luckily, we were already warned by friends, not only to take the first-best yellow taxi to the hotel, that would be too expensive, but to take the "Super Shuttle". This is like a small van with three rows of seats. Dieser sammelt mehrere Gäste am Flughafen ein und steuert dann auf einer Route deren Hotels an.
The taxi drove to the Queen of a Skyline Boulevard and nothing was to be seen far and wide. The panorama was as flat as the Netherlands in Hamburg or. But suddenly formed on the horizon, full of despair, the upper half of the skyline from.
Just because of this amazing atmosphere, I can only recommend, the first time to travel to the Super Shuttle to Manhattan. When traveling by subway to one of the sight is denied.
Closer and clearer the Skyline came to us and revealed more and more details with the contours of the individual becoming increasingly clear skyscrapers. Across the Queensboro Bridge Manhattan south we boarded the Upper East Side. Left and right, it went to the first houses gorges and bustle received our Super Shuttle to get it immediately in the usual traffic jam to incorporate. Wir parallel Fuhren Central des Parks, to him then to traverse at the height of 79th Street on the 79th Transverse Road.
We even drove around the Museum of Natural History and then turned off the Columbus Avenue in the W79th Street a.
We were lucky, because our hotel ((Hotel Park79)) was equal to the first and therefore we were the Super Shuttle to 20km and 45 leave again minutes drive.

Despite my exact details of our arrival time plus one hour delay, the room was not ready yet. We deposited our luggage at the hotel and decided to explore the immediate area.
We walked the 79th Street westward, marveled at the first intersection with Amsterdam Avenue and were 2 Blocks already at an underground station of lines 1,2,3.
Klaus nudged me and said,: “Hey, we are on Broadway ".
Actually stood on Broadway Street Sign.
Of course, the Broadway did not seem so colorful at this point, bright, as it is loud and glamorous known from film and television , yes because the theater are further south in the Theater District. That Broadway is about 25km long and partly a former old Indian trail, I was not even aware at the time.
After the short excursion we went back to the hotel to finally move into our room. When booking online, the suite cost 5 Days only 50 EUR charge. This probably also the purification lasted longer 5h.
The small problem was, that it was probably a mistake when booking, I spite of expression and the confirmation unfortunately after some back and forth again Gezocke 140 EUR had to pay more. They apologized profusely for the inconvenience and we would also assist in finding another hotel. But after eight hours of flying and now 14 Hours on the road, wollten wir nur noch ins Zimmer.

The next surprise was the size of the queen size double bed: For two men without Stuffed affinity really not very comfortable with 140cm Width. Fortunately, yes we had a suite with a queen size pull out sofa bed. We folded the couch and folded out to an already "made" bed with the quality of a sun lounger with 2 Sheets.
Thanks to the nice house staff we got for it then another RICHITGE a thicker mattress and blankets for bed.

After the annoying teething problems it flashed again full of energy and we wanted to get in this city, the always bubbling and flowing and quiet far away from Kojak siren through the poorly insulated windows sends.

We already went over unexplored terrain and took 2 Blocks to the subway line 1 below and decided to drive south of Broadway to Times Square.

Again, a good tip from Oli and Silke was once the metro pass to buy, 27$ for a week to use the subway as much and often as you like.

It occurs to, like entering a dimensional, of the more normal busy Broadway, Corner 79. with the rumbling subway then stop at Times Square 42. Road. When climbing up the stairs, it suddenly appears in a completely different city. An indescribable bustle, Brummen, Sirens, Pfeifengetriller, Autogehupe und unverständlicher Stimmenbrei berauscht meine Sinne. At the top, stehen wir mit offenem Mund einfach nur da und erfahren all die Bilder, one has seen so many times, accompanied by that very lively and penetrating noise.
We turn slowly in a circle, his head thrown back and let these unreal flash flood flickering images affect us. Each façade has communicated anything, be it a new TV series, a product, new movie, everything is just great.
Is crowned this flickering and bright scenario of massive towers behind, in the emerging dawn and threatening shadow stoop from above.

Blinded by this immense flood of impressions we trudge aimlessly in Times Square, until we finally got too cold, and we decide to 18:00 Time to drive back to the hotel. The plan was actually, us some rest and then 1 hour later recovered with new energies again to dive into the nightlife. But we did not count on our exhausted bodies.