Tikkabik

So there are church bells near the hotel that I've been able to hear quite clearly as I write from the hotel room, at 6:45PM each night. It's fitting, given that we're right in Times Square, that the church bells don't ring out some liturgical music. Instead, they play "Give My Regards to Broadway."

As I was walking back to the hotel last night after spending the evening with some friends, I passed by one of the ubiquitous nut vendors who sells almonds, cashews and other fare that's been sugar-glazed. I noticed that there were scattered nuts near his feet, and it took me a few moments to realize the nuts were moving. Quite fast. Into and out of a nearby sewer grate.

It was then that I realized I wasn't looking at nuts at all, but cockroaches.

Cockroaches the size and approximate color of the almonds he was selling.

I think I'll stay off the nuts for the duration of my trip here.