A Spanish who has been living in London would expect to find more similarities to this side of the ocean. I thought that the United Kingdom was a star missing in the American flag and that both countries were a reflection of each other.
Here the streets are straight, wide and clean. The urban grid of New York is exhausting for the mind: the skyscrapers to see the end of the street, however as much as you walk as much the end goes further. The visual constant of the red buses in London is here replaced by the yellow taxis. And the omnipresence of CCTV here replaced by a deployment of private security guards in uniforms.
Streets of New York where it is impossible to find a container for recycling, where all cars are not big but where none are small and few bicycles only
But what is most surprising is the pervasiveness of the Spanish language. You hear and read in any corner of the city, much as in some cities in Spain.