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Of course, my visit to Union Square proved useless. I didn’t have a
date or the exact location of the stall.

The farmer’s market is put up in the Union Square quadrangle, a
football-field sized area filled with over a hundred natural and

environment-friendly product stalls. A few stalls featured
performances ranging from juggling to music gigs. I passed organic

honey and fruit-based soap counters to reach the fair office.

‘Agents book the stalls. Then they call their own musicians on hire.
It’s quite impossible for us to trace them,’ a lady at the fair office told

me.
I took the subway back home. I felt stupid. I had wasted an

evening I could have spent with my friends. I reached the 86th Street
stop. I walked out to find the streets filled with snow. It was cold and

dark. Still, under the city lights, New York, with its historic
skyscrapers and modern neon lights, looked pretty. As I walked home,

I passed restaurants with cosy interiors. Beautiful people chatted and
laughed as they ate their dinner. I wondered if I would ever, even for

one day in my life, be carefree like them.
*

On my last Saturday in New York, I decided to visit the tourist
attractions. I spent my morning visiting the Rockefeller Center, the

Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. In the afternoon, I

decided to splurge. I went to watch an NBA game.
‘One ticket for the Knicks game, please,’ I said at the ticket counter.

Madison Square Garden, also known as the MSG or simply the
Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in midtown Manhattan in

New York City. Located between Seventh and Eighth Avenues from
31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station. I had

come to the Garden to watch a play-off game between the New York
Knicks and LA Lakers.

The Garden cost nearly a billion dollars to construct, making it one