In the mid-1920s, New York surpassed London as the world's most populous metropolitan area; its population exceeded ten million by the early 1930s. There is no second city in the world like New York, but this does not refer to the size of its population, neither to the incredible forest of skyscrapers; it rather refers to the spirit of societal innovation and of amazingly inspired inventiveness. New York is not a city, New York is a way of life. But New York is also a great experience for those who do not live in it. From the multiple observation decks hundreds of metres above ground level, the panoramic views are unequalled, over the Hudson and East Rivers, over the archipelago of islands in front of Manhattan, over the grid of avenues and streets neatly arranging in blocks the chaos of high-rise design buildings. One also experiences an unequalled sensation when, after the thrills of Fifth avenue window shopping or hanging around hectic Times Square, one enters the oasis of peace and calm of Central Park, just minutes away. New York lives in the 'today' and 'tomorrow' world, but it has also a 'yesterday' dimension, with somewhat dormant but real connections to the deeper past of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, the American struggle for independence from Britain and the massive influxes of migrant populations which have generated America's multicultural society of today, nowhere more genuine than in New York. New York is also a heaven of culture with multiple museums of world class. I owe them to you in this report, because my pictures of the grandiose Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, to mention only these two, date from the analog era and are simply not good enough. Maybe later, when (rather than if) I get a chance to go and make also another stroll on Times Square and Central Park?