Dude, I used to live in manhattan, east coast ex-pat, now on the blessed west...nyc sucks, if you are on this forum you likely will never have enough money to afford enjoying nyc, at least I couldn't. I lived on 119th and Lex, a pretty hood part, but still subjected to gentrification as on 2004, it prob has 9 starbucks in 1 mile radius by now. Anyhoo, tripping in Prospect Park in brooklyn is a real nice treat. I remember going there at 4 am after a looooooong night tripping in my friends apt and watching her cat feed off our energy, we walked to the park and caught the sunrise. It is a real nice treat when you see the flock of wild parakeets that roam around there (look for the big tree). Funny story, the birds started out as am escaped MF pair and kept breeding, now there are 30+ and they run the park ha, it is always nice to see something that doesn't belong there, it made me feel a little more welcome.
So NYC can be a very fun place to trip, but there is so much ugliness that at this point, unless I was doing energy work with clear intentions, I wouldn't recommend it.