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New York City is a place where cultures exist side by side, making for multiple worlds that geometrically complicate themselves through contact and exchange. It’s one of the liveliest cities on the planet for this reason. There are also histories that collide here, where ideas from disparate times and places come together and intersect in fascinating ways. This make for a kind of constant sense of instant nostalgia. On some days, every restaurant is a retro diner, and a luxury hotel is a new motor inn.

Instant nostalgia makes for some interesting cultural moments, and for those who have a kind of fondness, yearning, or even obsession for the bad boy days of the early 60s, there are scenes for the cafe racer lovers who come to the city. Every culture finds meeting places here, in actual space, public, private, or virtual, and subcultures also find ways of meeting each other.

It’s a city large enough that after a little time, you may even start to realize that you’re part of a subculture that you didn’t even know existed. That can happen with those who love the old school bikes. For many people, having a fondness for a BSA or Norton that you or even your grandfather owned, is something that just seems part of a long thread of memories.

Of course, in New York, it becomes a stylish trend, and it’s possible to join in whenever one wants to, if they find the right connections. The days when people would race from one coffee house to another between juke box songs are not gone, and on some days, it seems as though they’d never left. Thanks to the vision and obsessions of Hugh Mackie , among others, the days of the mods vs. rockers are still here. It happens in New York City. Perhaps it only happens in New York City. That one particular slice of history can be applied over the gridwork of the city, and suddenly, we’re all living it again, and there is no apparent contradiction.

There are many popular slogans associated with the city of New York and of those, most of them are related to the amount of entertainment attractions and cultural icons that are associated with this create American city. People visit New York , not only from all across the nation but also from all over the world. It is one of the most well known and sought after cities in the world and a large number of people who visit and or move here from other countries settle in New York. This might lead one to wonder what all of the fascination is about this one city. And of course the answer to that is as dynamic as the initial response to it might sound ridiculous.

New York is one of the major cultural centers not only in this country but the world. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and most respected and known collections and the Museum of Modern Art as the most extensive collection of modern pieces. In addition, the theatre scene is one of the most famous in the world, and it is definitely the pinnacle of American theatre. Broadway has an iconic traditional status in this country and the word alone often represents the dreams and ambitions of millions of people across the world.

There are also some of the greatest restaurants and shopping opportunities that are found in this city. From 5th Avenue to Times Square almost every street and or area in New York is famous for and symbolically representative of some major cultural aspect. The music scene in New York is another one of its great features. The clubs and performance venues of the city represent musical genres from around the world. The jazz and blues clubs found throughout the city, and particularly in Harlem are some of the best in the nation and also representative of this cultural evolution and musical development that occurred here. New York has a double reputation and is both known for being one of the standard traditional cultural centers of the nation, while also being one of the hotbeds of artistic experimentation and innovation.

Minimalist music has become sort of, how to say it, so empty these days. It’s hard to explain. It’s not that the music hasn’t gotten more, what’s the word, complex, because that wouldn’t be enough reason to consider it lost. It’s in the same places it was before, and the last time anyone saw Philip Glass ‘s attitude on display, it was in the cinema. That’s a beautiful place for it, and it’s certainly suited for that kind of celluloid longing, but at the end of the day, things that refuse to mean, they just seem, how do they say, tricky. At best.

Which is still a good day in New York. Seeing through the gimmick is almost becoming a gimmick, or perhaps it’s even better when the gimmick is so transparent before us, and we should, by all accounts, listen to the music and decide it is what it is, empty, and that kind of ethereal inspired blather that sounds like the stars when we are all looking up at the sky. Not because we are hopeful, either, but because we are bored. This is the given conditions for a lot of music these days, and then, when the kids can come through that and make us so aware of the technique, but also aware that we are still thinking, wow…then there’s something going on.

It’s hard to find in NYC and it’s easy to find, too. It can be something that would be reduced to, what’s the word, a reflection of mood of the listener, if it were not happening so often, and from so many different places. There are bars playing into the wee hours, and clubs where you can hear it when you leave your downtown hotel , so somebody somewhere is letting these things happen, and that somebody has got to be us. Minimalism might come back from the movies yet.