I am back in New York City, again! Thanks to the direct flight just opened up between Shanghai and NYC by China Eastern.  Maybe I should buy their stocks. Boy, NYC does smell familiar. JFK is still gigantic as ever. I took the Airtrain for the first time. It was opened 3 years ago. It connected me with the subway system. I got off from Jamaica Van Wyck station paid $7 including E-train to the city. Connect again with #7 train – the immigrant’s express- at Roosevelt Ave.

Called up the hotel, Marriott Fairfield Inn in Flushing, they readily offered to pick me up.  NY is a bit colder during the night….but I was armed to teeth. I even got a mask, a cloth mask. So I was warm enough. Coming from Shanghai, New York’s subway does looks very old and noisy. Basically, it is a steel jungle. Steel everywhere making the city impersonal and cold. But that’s New York. http://www.nycsubway.org/