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A strange sense of déjà-vu is apparent when first exploring New York City. Traversing Manhattan in particular is at times like walking through the sets of countless cult (and a good deal of terrible Jennifer Anniston) films and the sensation of this allows you to drift away from the frantic pace at which the city moves.

Come nightfall, the imposing skylines of the financial district and mid-town encase you in a twilight labyrinth of Manhattan’s ‘Gotham’ alter-ego. As the city’s weirder and wonderful inhabitants become more visible, they are no longer subdued by the mass of revellers, workers and proud NYC dwellers.  The Lower East Side becomes one of the most compelling areas by nightfall, where narrow, bleakly lit dive bars offering cans of cold lager and jukeboxes oozing Iggy and the Stooges play host to various characters of the night. Quite majestically, two blocks down some of these characters spill along with you into a David Bowie party complete with a first floor cabaret and packed basement discotheque which (perhaps unintentionally) carries a Studio 54-esque vibe and shows no sign of ceasing.

Fifteen minutes on the L Train from mid-town brings you to Brooklyn and with it brings a vast difference in both architecture and in collective mentality. Brooklyn is a supremely multi-faceted borough with the warehouse-dense Williamsburg now a second DUMBO of sorts with a young art and music community now established due to the low(er) cost of living. Crown Heights and Prospect Park retain a strong identity that is unmistakably Brooklyn as you make it down to the warrior’s haven, the bay of broken dreams that is Coney Island. Coney acts as the beachfront headquarters of some of NYC’s most subversive dwellers, the promenade and piers swell with drunks, vagrants, misguided fishermen and the occasional Chinese wedding photo-shoot. That said, it is a magical place and although clearly neglected the past couple of decades, its eerie state of dilapidation and abandonment make for a captivating insight into the underbelly of this phenomenal city.

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