More than 3 hours later, Hong Tao appeared at New York's LaGuardia Airport, which is counting the 1 hour of waiting for the plane. This airport is the first time Hongtao has been here, and in the past, international flights have landed at JFK or Newark Liberty International Airport, which is usually a transit point for domestic flights in the United States, and at most a long-haul flight to Canada or the Caribbean.

The airport is located on the western part of Long Island, in Queens, New York City, with Brooklyn to the west and First Avenue in Uptown Manhattan across the River East. Although Hong Tao has never landed here, it is much closer to Manhattan than Kennedy and Newark airports, and it is 5 kilometers north of Erin's law firm on Central Street.

Hong Tao had been to the law firm once, and although he couldn't tell the difference between the same high-rise buildings, he had the address of the building, and he only had to ask the airport staff to know which car he could take to get there.

If you want to say that the service of New York Airport is still very good, not only JFK and Newark International Airport, but even this small Gualadia airport has a kind of service desk called GroundTransportation, which probably means transportation information.

At this information desk, there will be a special person who will provide guidance to passengers at the airport in English, and they will ask each passenger who comes to inquire about the destination, and then write down your name, passport number, means of transportation, fare, etc., on a small card, and then ask the passenger to take this small card to wait in the waiting room.

When the right transport for you arrives, they will call your name and passport number on the loudspeaker, and then you just need to go to the check-in desk with your luggage, where the bus driver or airport attendant will be waiting for you to take you directly to the bus or taxi, and the driver will follow the record on the card and remind you to get off the bus when you arrive at your destination, if you are pregnant or elderly. The driver will also help you carry your luggage into the hotel.

The main purpose of this is to prevent travelers who are not familiar with New York from being deceived by black taxis outside the airport, which New Yorkers call "white cars", which probably means something about the same.

The place where Hong Tao is going is the intersection of 1stAve Street and E116th St Street, where there is a building called Condell, and Irene's company is the 11th floor of the building.

Speaking of the streets of New York, we often hear such expressions in many American police movies, such as robbers at the intersection of so-and-so street and so-and-so street, a few blocks away, etc., but such descriptions are rarely heard in European or domestic movies and television, and there may be a little reason for the difference in the way of speaking. But it all comes down to the street layout of New York.

The geographical location of New York is a bit like the Shanghai city of China, which is built on the estuary of the river, but the topography of New York is a little more complex than Shanghai, mainly because the Hudson River estuary is divided into several large and small islands, of which the larger and more famous are Manhattan Island, Long Island and Staten Island, and separated by the Hudson River, the East River, and the Hamlet Canal. So New York City was built on top of these islands and rivers.

There are a total of 5 districts in New York City, and these 5 districts are the 5 counties under New York State, they are Brooklyn (King County), Manhattan (New York County), Queens (Queens County), Staten (Richmond County), and Bronx (Bronx County).

Americans' administrative divisions are not the same as China's, and their states are the first-level administrative units. Probably understood as our province. But don't think of states as provinces, their governors are de jure the same level as federal presidents, and if you are in your own state, governors are higher than federal presidents.

Below the state are counties and cities and towns. This county can be translated as county, or it can be called county, both of which have the same meaning. The three forms of government, counties, cities, and towns are collectively referred to as local governments, and sometimes counties are governed by cities. Sometimes there are cities and towns below the county, and there is no pattern.

The federal government, the state, the county, and the town have no direct affiliation, just take the white police killing of black people that are happening these days. If the town doesn't ask the state for help, then the state doesn't have the authority to meddle in the town's affairs, and the town's police won't listen to the governor's orders.

Now the governor has received authorization from the town government, and he can declare martial law in the town, or the entire state, but Comrade Obama can only watch, and he has no authority to dictate what the governor should do. Of course, there are some things that can be directly intervened by the federal government, such as the 911 terrorist attacks, and the New York City government at that time could not do it even if it did not want the federal government to intervene.

Generally speaking, the United States is a bit like an industry association, and each state participates in this association as a subject, but the association cannot interfere with the specific operation of each entity, and everyone can only act according to the pre-agreed charter, and no one can force anyone.

The federal president is the spokesperson elected by each member of the association through voting, and the federal government is prepared by the entire spokesperson himself, and the members pay some dues according to the agreed proportion to maintain the normal operation of the association, and the president with his own small team, usually responsible for coordinating the conflict of interest between the members, between the members and the outside world, when everyone has the same interests, the association will grow and develop, and the interests will be irreconcilable, then everyone will break up.

Having said all this nonsense, let's get down to business, New York City's topography is so responsible, but it's easy to find a place here, and this credit is due to its urban street layout. New York City has no ring roads, no radial highways, and all of its roads are almost horizontal and vertical, like a Go board.

All east-west roads are called Street, abbreviated as St; The north-south road is called Avenue (the word is appropriated from the French, roughly meaning wide road), abbreviated as Ave. Of course, not all roads are due east and west, south and north, this is the general direction.

After distinguishing east-west or north-south directions with St and Ave, New Yorkers also numbered these roads according to a certain pattern, with St's roads starting from the southernmost side being No. 1 and numbering higher the further north they go, and Ave roads starting from the west as No. 1 and numbering higher the further east.

In this way, the roads in the entire New York City area become a coordinate grid, and if you name any two roads, someone who knows the pattern will quickly know where the location is in the city, so that they can easily determine the destination.

According to the street number, the address where Hong Tao is going should be on the lower right of Manhattan Island, which is considered uptown. The Kennedy Bridge is not far away. The service desk helped him choose the bus, M60 bus, New York's public transportation system is very perfect, the bus in the city is about 15 minutes or so, the price Hongtao feels a little expensive, 2 US dollars pass, valid within 2 hours, the bus and subway are universal, the subway can be transferred freely, the bus can only be transferred once, and the bus does not have to pay again.

If you are visiting New York for the first time, it is best to stay at the information desk at the airport for a while and ask a few more questions, although the staff there are not all enthusiastic, but they will definitely not dislike you for talking too much, you will be answered, and the answer will be written on the card for you, you don't have to know much English, as long as you can indicate where you are going on the map.

Twenty minutes later, Hong Tao got off at the station closest to his destination, which is on First Avenue, and according to the bus driver, walk about 200 miles west along First Avenue to the Condell Building.

The climate of New York is very similar to that of Beijing, with four distinct seasons throughout the year, hot in summer and cold in winter, so spring and autumn are more comfortable. However, because New York is close to the sea, it rains more than Beijing, and there is no wind and sand. Hong Tao came at the end of September, just in time for autumn, so it was neither cold nor hot after getting off the bus, and it was quite appropriate to wear his NB Argentine calfskin outfit.

At this time, it was close to 10 o'clock in the morning, Hong Tao didn't catch lunch on the plane, and now he was a little hungry, and there happened to be a fast food truck on the street, so Hong Tao walked over and wanted to get something to pad his stomach first. Behind the food truck stood an old white man, stuffing something into a half-pulled bun with his plastic-gloved hands.

"Hello, what kind of food is this?" Hong Tao leaned over and tried his best to look kinder, because he didn't think about whether to buy this kind of food, and he was afraid that he would be scolded if he didn't buy it if he asked too much.

"Hello, young man, have you just arrived in New York? It's Bagle, haven't you eaten it? Come on, try my Bagle, are you going to sandwich salmon or cheese? As soon as the old man saw Hong Tao's appearance, he knew that he was a foreigner, not only dressed strangely, but also pulling a big suitcase.

"How much is it?" Hong Tao watched the old man pick up a piece of grilled salmon and stuff it into the bread, his stomach grunted uncontrollably, and he planned to ask the price before deciding whether to eat it or not, so as not to be slaughtered.

"The first one is free, where do you come from? Texas? Mexico? The old man didn't say the price, but handed a well-matched Bagle to Hong Tao, motioned for him to taste it, and then chatted casually.

"I just came from Argentina, do I look like a Mexican?" Hong Tao wondered why the old man guessed that he was from Texas or Mexico, and the sturgeon said the same thing when he first bought the clothes.

"You're not really Argentinian, you're more like Mexican, but your English is very good, you don't have any accent over there, and you don't look like a Texan, and you know those cowboys can't change their accent for the rest of their lives." The old man pointed to Hong Tao's clothes and hair, and began to analyze where Hong Tao was from. (To be continued......)

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