My first and ongoing reaction to New York City is: I have seen all this in the movies. I already knew that the "Bronx is up and the Battery’s down" - important because it is the reverse of British usage where you go "up" to London.
This is the view if you climb out on to the fire escape of our hotel.

In fact there are a lot of dogs in New York and most of their owners seem responsible

These fire escapes look like they were afterthoughts but they were probably part of the original design

Possibly a sewer vent

Outside Schatzie Prime Meats on Broadway just up from 101st Street

Looking up Broadway from the corner of 102nd Street. Our hotel is at the centre of this photo

Cropped out of the previous image. The Marrakech Hotel at 2588 Broadway on the corner of 103rd street. I assume the hotel occupies all four of the upper floors of this building and there is no elevator! Fortunately we were on what the Americans call the second floor.

Just south of the cathedral: the Peace_Fountain by Greg Wyatt in the West 111th Street People's Garden

New York delights in superlatives. This claims to be the biggest Anglican cathedral in the world.

The choir parapet of notable figures from each century since the birth of Christ here we see, from right to left: 14xx Christopher Columbus, 15xx Galileo, 16xx Shakespeare, 17xx George Washington and 18xx Abraham Lincoln. The parapet was installed in 1922 and they left the last niche empty until the century had ended.

When that happened, they could not agree on a single person so they gave us this interesting quartet: Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Susan B. Anthony (American social reformer and women's rights activist born into a Quaker family) and Mohandas Gandhi.

The building that New Yorkers call the Port Authority is in fact a bus terminal. Nearby it and parodying the name Lesley spotted the Beer Authority. Which is a hopeful sign that the USA is not a total lager desert. The place has sixty taps serving this wide range of beers.

The Beer Authority is entered from West 40th Street. this is the view from its window on to 8th Avenue