However it's reputation as "The city that never sleeps" is seriously over-rated. On my first visit I went to a gig at CBGBs (just before it finally closed for good) and came out just after 12.00 to find the streets empty and everywhere deserted!

Maybe the nutters avoided me? I never encountered a single one. Or maybe it was because we were back in our hotel rooms by 9-10pm (wife had an exam on our return so she wanted to do some revision)?

I finally went to NY at the end of last year.
I didn't take to the city itself, or the shopping mania they have. But I'd recommend the Museum of New York, the statue of Liberty (after the museum), the 9-11 memorial and the Intrepid Museum.

I found central park over rated, and time square and the Rockerfella centre vastly over rated.

There's lots of nutters on the subway too*, as is 'should genuinely be in a mental hospital' nutters.

* The first day we were on there one bloke was shouting up and down the carriage that he'd been in prison for twenty years and his favourite hobby was dragging dead bodies around.