Manhattan is an incredible place. The politics suck but I LOVED working in the WTC, the Financial Center, Rockefeller Plaza very much.
The theater, the opera, the museums, the bars :), the restaurants, Little Italy and lots more make it great.
The liberals are idiots and they are prolific, but that doesn’t make Manhattan any less great. :)
But I always got to go back to Staten Island every night!
Did you ever listen to a NY radio show named The Right Perspective? Good stuff back in the day...