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There is absolutely no doubt that New York City is the greatest city in the world. However being here comes at a cost that many aren't willing to take.

To live here New Yorkers must make plenty of sacrifices and assimilate to this concrete jungle where only the strong survive. There is a ton of bullshit that they are forced to put up with on a day to day basis and that's what makes them who they are.

This is New York after all. Don't you know you have to be rich just to be broke here?

These are the 50 worst things about living in New York City.

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50. Food costs double compared to anywhere else.

49. The snow turns into complete shit.

48. You have to take overcrowded trains like this.

47. The air feels like blankets when it’s hot.

46. Then it gets so cold you can’t feel your face.

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45. You can’t sleep at night because of all the noise of drunk people and cars.

44. The crazy people are TOO crazy.

43. A bottle at the club costs $450.

42. Chinese people make the Mexican food.

41. All of the girls are burnt out by 22.

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40. Too many people from New Jersey and Long Island move here.

39. There are no good high school football teams because there is nowhere to play.

38. It smells like a combination of rotting food, sun baked urine, and month old kitchen grease.

37. When your dog shits then you have to pick it up in front of a hundred people.

36. The bikers at Central Park think they are in the Tour de France.

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35. You can’t cook anything in your apartment without making your whole floor smell.

34. A good time in high school is drinking 40’s on a roof.

33. Rats that run across your foot on the subway platform.

32. Cabs unwilling to go to certain neighborhoods.

31. That guy on the subway who smells really bad.

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New York city is the greatest city in the word:

Because we have the most iconic skyline

New York may not be the birthplace of the skyscraper—Chicago holds that distinction—or even home to the world’s craziest super tall buildings. No matter: When people talk about skylines, we bet that midtown Manhattan—home to the cloud-piercing spires of the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings—is what they’re imagining. Other noteworthy structures, including the Woolworth Building and the Twin Towers (whose absence is being filled by  the rising One World Trade Center), helped cement Manhattan’s skyscraper supremacy throughout the 20th century. And not only do we have an entire institution—the Skyscraper Museum—devoted to tall towers, but Gotham is also the birthplace of the word skyscraper. Take that, Chicago.

Because of Manhattan’s grid

The Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, which proposed NYC’s pattern of numbered avenues and streets, led to many changes: Real estate began to be packaged in easy-to-sell units, fueling the city’s development; eminent domain was established as a tool for grand projects (um, yay?); and Manhattan became easy enough for any mouth breather to navigate. But more than that, the grid amplifies and feeds the relentless pace of life here. In a 2012 interview, legendary street photographer Joel Meyerowitz said that Manhattan’s streets “run for miles straight ahead, and so the energy on the street is funneled this way. And when you participate in that, you become part of the energetic dimension of life on the streets.” If antiquated cities like London and Paris are for meandering, then New York is for purposefully charging forward.

Because our bars are open until 4am

When do your watering holes close again, London? What’s that? We couldn’t hear you. Oh, 11pm?!? Bloody hell! (Okay, fine, some pubs are open until 1am. Still.) Not that we necessarily condone drinking in the wee hours—or telling anyone about doing so; that’s too much bro bragging for our tastes—but there’s something oddly comforting about knowing that you can do just that on weekends. Typically, American cities (Chicago, for example) are peppered with a few places for the post-2am crowd—which are almost impossible to get into after regular joints’ last call. In the world’s greatest city, however, late-night spots are the rule, not the exception, which means that an array of choices—hookup spots, dives, and bars for both cocktail and beer snobs—are waiting for you come 3am.

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Because the Manhattan cocktail was invented here, and we’d like to see someone try to make it better than we do

New York is the birthplace of many a great concoction, including the iconic, rye-whiskey-based tipple. Legend has it that the drink was created by Dr. Ian Marshall in 1874 for an event at the Manhattan Club (hence the name), though some liquor historians claim that it was actually the handiwork of a bartender nicknamed Black, who worked at a Soho lounge. Regardless of the origins, this cocktail is replicated in countless watering holes across the world, but there’s no better place to enjoy it than its hometown. You can find top-notch versions at Milk and Honey and the Flatiron Lounge.

Because New Yorkers live longer than almost anyone else

The third oldest person in the country is Susannah Mushatt Jones, a 113-year-old New York City woman who was born in the 19th century and has seen MTA fares rise from a nickel. This proves that city life isn’t just better, it’s lengthier: NYC residents live about two years longer than the national average. In 2010, a New Yorker’s life expectancy at birth topped out at 80.9 years. Maybe it’s that after surviving the job hunt, the apartment search and calorie-count menus, the rest seems easy. (That we walk more than other Americans and eat fewer trans fats also probably helps.) To quote Dorothy Parker, “As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.” And she died at the ripe old age of 73, despite drinking like a fish.

Because, believe it or not, you can still find a rent-stabilized apartment in NYC

Yes, the holy grail of urban real estate is indeed out there—for those intrepid enough to find it. According to the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, there are approximately 1 million (!) rent-stabilized living spaces in Gotham. Adopted in 1969, the city program was created to shield tenants from steep cost increases enacted by greedy landlords. And thanks to a 2011 state law, those lucky leasers are in safer waters than ever: A stabilized apartment’s monthly rent has to climb higher than $2,500 before it can be deregulated. (As for those stories of crazy-rich renters with super cheap spaces, they’re largely bunk: A recent New York Times piece reported that the median income for tenants in rent-stabilized apartments is $36,000.) So don’t lose hope, home hunter; the rent isn’t always too damn high.

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Because we invented hip-hop and still do it better than any other city

There’s no hip-hop hall of fame—not yet, anyway—but if you’re searching for rap’s birthplace, look no further than the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, an unassuming Bronx apartment building close to the Major Deegan Expressway. That’s where Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell and MC Coke La Rock first mashed up break beats and Jamaican-style toasting at a back-to-school shindig 40 years ago, inventing a genre that’s since come to dominate popular music. Rap’s evolution has taken place largely in the five boroughs, through the work of originators such as Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang; golden-era hip-hop artistslike Big Daddy Kane, the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C.; and ’90s kingpins such as the Wu-Tang Clan, Nas and the Notorious B.I.G. (And let’s not forget Long Island–bred MCs like De La Soul, LL Cool J and Public Enemy.) Despite the rise of West Coast hip-hop and regional scenes throughout the South and Midwest, New York still dominates: Jay-Z, A$AP Rocky and Nicki Minaj continue to top charts, while up-and-comers such as Action Bronson and Joey Bada$$ line up to snatch the crown. View our list of the 50 greatest NYC hip-hop artists here.

Because our LGBT scene is actually an LGBT scene

Our mixed parties, such as Hey Queen!, Scissor Sundays and Rebel Cupcake, draw diverse crowds from all points on the gender and sexuality spectrums. Sure, there are still shindigs for specific scenes (glamour lesbians, bears)—as there should be—but in the wake of gay marriage, gay people all over TV and the like, NYC queers embrace and celebrate their outsider status as a diverse community.

Because bands blow up after playing here

It’s becoming an increasingly common tale: Scrappy outfit plays a tiny DIY space in Williamsburg; that same now-buzzed-about band returns months later and sells out a much bigger venue in town. Just look at U.K. postpunk sensations Savages, who graced Bowery Ballroom having made their U.S. debut at Glasslands. So why does this happen more here than anywhere else? It could be the large contingent of press and industry people at shows. Or that NYC is typically the first stateside stop for a budding foreign rock band. And the CMJ Music festival, held each October in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn, certainly doesn’t hurt. But the fact remains that as much as this is an incredibly tough town to be a musician in, it’s the best place to see one—any night of the week offers the possibility of peeping the next bbig thing on a tiny stage.

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Because New York is the home of the musical—which we still do better than anyone else in the world

The song-and-dance show has come a long way since The Black Crook, a five-and-a-half-hour-long pageant considered to be the world’s first musical, took primordial Broadway by storm in 1866. In the intervening century and a half, New York City has more than earned its name as not just as musical theater’s birthplace, but the spot where it’s done better than anywhere around the globe. Sure, the spectacle-drenched tuners of London’s West End (Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera) get exported to our shores. But many of the most innovative, memorable musicals of our time came to maturity on the Great White Way, from the golden age of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the rise of Sondheim to the unorthodox, form-reinventing hits of the past decade like Avenue Q, Spring Awakening and The Book of Mormon. Many of shows, such as Wicked, are now performed internationally, but Broadway is still the mecca for bright-eyed hoofers, who flock here like moths to a lit-up marquee.

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Empire State Building
Try imagining NYC’s skyline without the towering spire of the Empire State Building. Impossible, right? Taking a mere 11 months to construct, the 1,454-foot-tall emblem became the city’s highest building upon completion in 1931. During your visit, pay special attention to the lobby, restored in 2009 to its original Art Deco design. You can also impress your pals with these tidbits while queuing for the observation decks: In 1945, 14 tenants were killed when a plane crashed into the 79th floor during heavy fog; a terrace on the 103rd level was once intended for use as a docking station for airships; and the topper’s three tiers of lights can illuminate up to nine colors at a time.

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Forward flight for 2 people: 1862,00€
Return flight for 2 people: 1882,00€

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Pod 51 Hotel

230 East 51st Street, New York City, NY 10022-6571

00 1 646-392-8930
Total cost for 15 days for 2 people: 1605,00€

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"Big Apple" is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its popularity since the 1970s is due in part to a promotional campaign by the New York tourist authorities.

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The first documented visit by a European, was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown, who sailed his ship La Dauphine into New York Harbor. In 1524, New York was inhabited by Native Americans who sold Manhattan island to Dutch colonists in the 17th century. They founded a city which they called "New Amsterdam" but, in 1664 the british took possession and changed its name to "New York".

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New York is the most populous city in the United States. In New York there are 8,550,405 inhabitants distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km²). New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States