As an occasional visitor to NYC who hasn’t spent a night here in over 20 years, I would neither drive my own vehicle there nor rent a car. Instead, I’d use a taxi. Definitely on my list of places I least want even to visit.
Many years ago (as a teenager—my summer “job”) I used to drive my grandfather a hundred miles to Manhattan to one of the hospitals for some medical stuff he needed done.
On the way home on one of the trips we were on the cross Bronx expressway. A car in front of me slammed on their brakes. I had less than a second to do something to avoid hitting them—no time to look, just a quick decision to do something, anything.
I swerved into the left lane—and fortunately no-one was there.
I still have nightmares about it.
That was the last time I ever drove into Manhattan.