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A lot of things close pretty early here... I never understood the "never sleeps" part. By 8 pm, seems like most everything besides bars or restaurants are closed.
In my area supermarkets are open until 9-10 pm and many restaurants are open until 11pm-1am. There is also a car service office, a CVS, a Dunkin Donuts as well as the subway which are open 24/7. So some parts of the city are open 24/7 and other parts do go to sleep.
Everything's shifted to the Far East; Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore. There you'll find cities that never sleep. We had a good run make no mistake. I was doing NYC in the good old days or bad old days, however you want to look at it. It was truly electrifying, the center of the universe!
Everything's shifted to the Far East; Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore. There you'll find cities that never sleep. We had a good run make no mistake. I was doing NYC in the good old days or bad old days, however you want to look at it. It was truly electrifying, the center of the universe!
It's more a reference to the fact that there is always something going on in the city. You can go to a bar or a club until very early in the morning or go eat at 24 hours places and take the subway anywhere anytime. Most other cities have 2am or earlier and then everything totally shuts down. Hell, places in the south in smaller towns close at 8pm or 9pm and don't open back up until 6am. You can always find something to do 2 or 3am in this city.
I agree. The phrase doesn't mean every single store/bar/restaurant is open 24 hrs. Just that one can find a 24 hour place relatively easy compared to other cities. You don't realize how much you take this for granted until you venture out into other areas of the country where everything including mass transit literally shuts down after 8 pm (in some smaller cities it's 5pm!) & you find nothing open.
In my mom's place, I can count three restaurants/bars that close at 4 am and one that is open 24 hrs and a 24 hr Duane Reade all within a 2 or 3 block radius from her apt. And even at 3 am the train, restaurants & sidewalks while not crowded do have people walking around. They're not all party types either. It's a mix of them, students and late shift workers going home.
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