01.02.10
4 days in NYC, now in Philly
Time for another short update…I’ll have more thorough write-ups and pictures once I get back to Chicago. I’m in Philadelphia now, after 4 days in New York City. I had previously been to New York only once, so I spent a majority of my time exploring, riding around on the subway and exploring the city on foot. In New York, I was especially interested in its Chinese communities, as the major influxes of immigration for the past couple decades have been coming from Fuzhou, and I spent considerable time exploring New York’s three Chinatowns. My travels in New York also reinforced how effective public transportation can be when people reside in high density urban areas, as opposed to the suburban sprawl which has overtaken the US throughout most of the last half century.
Here in Philly and at my next stop in Baltimore, I plan to explore a cities which have seen more prosperous days in years past. My initial impression of Philadelphia is that the city looks and feels a lot like Chicago, only without much growth and development over the past fifty years, and considerably less ethnic diversity. I’ve already had my first cheesesteak (Pat’s) and today am going to see my first Kansas basketball game since moving back to the US (They’re playing Temple). Go Hawks! I’ll have more in-depth updates when I get back.
formerchaoyanger
said,
January 3, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Thanks for all the media recommendations in your blog. Recently I had the chance to buy the book series 藏地密码 t1bet code and starting reading it. I’ve finished the first volume and it’s very readable. So if you’re looking for a decent modern mainland thriller this series definitely fits the bill.
Andy
said,
January 5, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Philly is actually an awesome city with very distinct sections. Besides Center City around Rittenhouse Square, a trip to the art museum and the UPenn campus in West Philly is definitely worthwhile.
kurt
said,
January 6, 2010 at 4:25 am
什么时候回中国?
Joe said,
February 28, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Philadelphia is a great city with 1.5 million residents in city limits. In your trip you missed great places like Manayunk, Rittenhouse, Chestnut Hill, South Street, East Passyunk, University City, Fairmount, Olde City, Washington Square, and the list goes on.. Your all knowing assumption that our rail system is inadequate is completely wrong. SEPTA carries 500,000 passengers through downtown alone, every day and is FULLY accessible by multitudes of interconnecting train lines between 3 states. For a better map see Septa.org. Just because you don’t have the greatest capability in the world to navigate beyond a downtown map and ho hum tourist traps, does not mean MORE does not exist. For anyone who pulls up this gentlemen’s just ok blog on the east coast, please realize he can’t help that he is in Chicago, a town in the middle of nowhere on a beautiful lake with no access to anything within reason, other the Gary, Indiana and Milwaukee, WI, full of people from St. Louis, who now think they live in the big city!