New York will always be associated with freedom in my mind. With adulthood as well. Like no other city in the world you feel the weight of history, of people's history. It's like the entire world has at one time or another  walked on these avenues, set foot on those islands, cross the Hudson in the hope of a better life somewhere even farther from their homeland. There must be something in the air that makes you feel so alive. That hope that you wish you could keep in you forever...