The people. NY'ers are much tougher and thicker skinned then most.
I grew up in the city and didnt realize until I moved away to college what pussys people are.
They are for the most part all talk, and they are the most neurotic paranoid people in the world... And NYc has a lot of "bad energy" bad vibes...
It wasn't until I went to college with dudes from NYC did I realize how much they were all talk, all bluff, and wanted to remind everybody that they were NYC--meanwhile drug dealers and thugs from NYC were getting murdered in Bodymore...all they had to say was, "I'm from NYC", and bullet goes in their head.
Most corrupt police force in the nation. And the places of the city like Manhattan remind people what America has become---all image, no soul...you find the true essence of the cancer that is plaguing America.
In short, there is a cosmic reason why 9/11 happened in NYC, not just ecomonic
That being said, If we are talking NYC, great place to shop, and that's it. But, it shows the world, what not to become. Bad air quality, and people live like ants...and don't know how to drive.
Upstate NY great place...a sense of calmness, less hurried