NEW YORK — In the Big Apple, there are more things to see and do than anyone could dream of accomplishing in a week.
From the Empire State Building to the Brooklyn Bridge, there are all sorts of odds and ends to the city. In fact, just walking 40 blocks, it’s easy to see the opposite ends of the cultural scale.
Nicknamed the “Met,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art sits at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, flush up against Central Park. The building has immense roman columns in the front and is full of exhibitions inside, from Egyptian drawings to arms and armor from England, China and the United States, among others. Of course, arms and armor was my favorite.
Not that I got a chance to see everything inside. The building is so large, it’s easy to accidentally double back on yourself. Jumping from one exhibition to another is also easy, which adds a little variety to the visit.
Walking back to midtown — the museum is about 45 blocks away from Times Square — you can stroll through Central Park, which stretches for about 25 blocks. That’s when you see those giant skyscrapers begin to get closer and closer. Or so it seems.
That’s also when you reach the Ed Sullivan Theater, home to “Late Show with David Letterman.” And when you get to the theater, walk around the corner to the Hello Deli, run by Rupert Jee.
Jee, as you may or may not know, is the proprietor of the deli and appears often on Letterman during the one-hour late-night show. He is basically an honorary member of the show.
Tickets to the show are hard to come by. So when taping begins, it might be wise to wait around outside the deli. When I stood there, a group of passersby decided to congregate around the deli as Letterman was using Jee in another of his skits.
Just a few things to see in the city that never sleeps. At least until 5 a.m., that is.

— Hank Hager