I was in NYC for New Years Eve '98. Me and a friend fried on some shrooms and saw the Phish show (and the previous three days of shows too). After the show, we left Madison Square Garden and our hotel was only like two miles away so we decided to just walk there from MSG.

It was like 1:00 AM or 1:30 AM when we set out for the hotel. The first thing we noticed was, the whole city looked like the almost-deserted aftermath of a gigantic party (which is what it was, I guess). Just trash and party streamers and stuff everywhere, but very little traffic or people. Of the people that WERE around, about two thirds of them were people just passed out on the street, drunk bums, that kinda stuff. There were also some...scary-looking groups of people. We got paranoid seeing the scary folks, so when we saw this group of like 20 uniformed cops walking the same way we were, we walked faster to catch up to them, and just kinda followed in their wake. That was pretty bizarre, considering we were flying on shrooms and stoned out of our minds, walking with and BSing with a gang of cops, who were really cool and thought it was funny that we were latched onto them for safety.

In fact, for all the bad press NYC gets in regards to the rudeness of the people there, that wasn't our experience AT ALL. Everyone was super nice and helpful, especially the cops (not just those cops either, all of them). I still wouldn't want to live there (the traffic is just crazy, and that many people packed that close together makes me claustrophobic). But it seemed like a great place to visit!
jamstigator Reviewed by jamstigator on . Bodies lying in the streets I was walking down Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan the other day and saw a man lying on the sidewalk, motionless, in front of a building. He could have been dead for all anybody knew, but was probably a homeless derelict or junkie. This scene is not an uncommon occurrence in many metropolitan areas. Not long ago, somebody on this board, from England, said that she heard a rumor that there are dead bodies in the street of the U.S. I told her that you see them, but you don't know whether Rating: 5