I love New York.

You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth

Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. Both

"Here is New York" by E.B.White and " Kickflipping New York" by Akiko Busch have the same

notion that personal experience creates our view of New York, however, there are more

differences in the authors' depictions. First, should a person be lucky or opportunist to cope with

the city's lifestyle. Second, New York is a poem or architecture. Third, New York should have

destroyed itself long ago, but it transformed over time.

When I first came to New York, I thought that whoever lives in such city is optimistic, well-

determined to achieve his dreams, and also happy. I found that partly right by participating in the

city's events and taking actions to help others could make you feel delightful, for instance, I am a

Math tutor at BMCC. I always feel very confident, delighted, and prominent because I help the

students understand Math and also succeeded in putting a smile on their faces. On the other hand,

I find most of the New Yorker lonely and depressed. In the Subway, I see everyone living in his

private world thinking about the future, no eye contact, and with unpleasant faces. However,

E.B.White considers loneliness and privacy as gifts; you can emerge when you want and

acclimatize and disappear when you need, so New York is a privilege and refreshing place to

uncover your true self.

Though I concede that both E.B.White and Akiko Busch have some absolute similarities, I still

insist that they have so many notable differences. New York is a resident of a large extent of

strangers who came from all over the world to achieve their goals in life or seeking refuge.
Nevertheless, it is not an easy task to cope with challenges that the city provides as it could

destroy the ironed will of a person is pursuing his dreams, Thus White says "No one should come

to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky." Contrarily, Akiko Busch indicates that New

York gives us a sense of belonging by making the city your own by familiarizing yourself its

landmarks, streets, various communities and also a source of motivation to continue chasing

personal goals. Akiko says"Using maps and their MetroCards, the boys charted their routes and

plotted their destinations, a whole itinerary of urban spaces." Meaning that her sons are

opportunists as they use the city streets and landmarks to skate which is fun and also a history

lesson at the same time until it is something they can understand.

Moreover, in the article "Here is New York" by White the central theme is the improbability

and impossibility of New York; it experienced lots of disasters such as riots, economic

depression, and diseases. White says" It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing

is implausible. By rights New York should have destroyed itself long ago." On the other hand,

Akiko state that New York is transforming over time with the people's influence. It helps contain

different ethnics, religions, diversity of thinking, and to make a simple environment for its

inhabitants to claim a small piece of the city and make it their own through urban experience and

its shifts in technology, capital investment, and migrations of people.