My Favorite Place is...

My favorite place is the small area of Times Square between 42nd and 45th street of Broadway, Manhattan. If you look up in the sky, on a nice sunny day you will be looking at a blue sea with beautiful white puffy clouds moving along. You will feel the sun's warmth, but it will be hard to actually see it because of the many high, dark buildings that take over the city. These buildings are as high as dinosaurs could have possibly been and there isn't much variation in it's colors. They are usually as gray as the skin of an elephant or as black as ebony. All of these buildings are filled with windows which are kept shiny and as clear as water. I am sure that by leaning against these windows, it will feel like putting cool, refreshing ice around your face on a hot day.There are then roads and sidewalks that are smooth and gray. The cars on the streets honk and beep like a stampede of elephants that have gone wild. On the sidewalks, there are black spots. If the sidewalks were white, they would almost look like the skin on the dalmations. On almost every corner of this area, your nose is sure to smell the hamburgers and hot dogs that are cooked like the burning of a barbecue on a hot summer day. All of the hungry people crowd over the man that's cooking, yelling at him for food as if they were starving four year olds who knew no better. When it's not the cooking of meat that's going on around the corner, it's the selling of jewelry. The beauty of it all calls out to you. That sparkling, shining bracelet that you put on around your wrist is that precious feel of winter's first fall of snowflakes.

Near the start of Times Square you will find yourself looking up at something high that looks like a building but isn't. At the top of this "building" there is a clock and a screen that will usually show what's going on in Times Square at the moment. If not, there will be commercials or promotions. If you keep going straight from this "building", across the street, you will find a huge, wide building. This is without a doubt, the best building in all of Manhattan. It's the famous Mtv Studios. You can't miss it because all over it's wide, water-clear windows, there are signs of all sizes all over the place saying "MTV". The signs, put together, make a rainbow. When there is a music or movie star making an appearance in the studios, the streets of this area become an exciting, noisy type of parade. The people become as tight as peanut butter in a container, but it's all worth it when the artist appears. It's unbelieveable how close the stars appear when they wave at the crowd. It drives the crowd, including myself when I go, crazy and brings smiles to our faces. Right below the studios you will find a lot of small shops including a leather store. When you enter, the good quality smell of leather is that cool, pleasing breeze on a hot summer's day. There is a bakery shop nearby. The cookies and baked goods are the sweet smell of beautiful flowers that have just bloomed. Keep walking down from Mtv and I am sure you will find a few coffee shops here and there. The smell of roasted beans will hit you like the smell of meat would hit an animal. The music that is played from Virgin Megastore, a music store near Mtv Studios, gives you the sense of being in a concert without all of the pushing and yelling.

It's not only the pleasant, fun-filled places that make this area of Times Square what it is. It's also the people. Everyone and everything is always moving in the speed of light. There is never a time of rest. It seems as if everyone's always in a rush, whether it's on their way to school, work or elsewhere. This is something that no other place in New York has. But no matter where you're going in Times Square, don't forget that in this fast-paced "center" there's always somewhere to just relax. For example, that small, but incredibly soft chair at the doughnut shop below Mtv Studios becomes your big fluffy bed after a hard day's work. There's time for work, fun, and relaxation and these are three things you're sure to find in Times Square.