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New York's Chinatown at 2 a.m. in rain: graffiti-tagged shutters glowing under a yellow storefront sign, a stop sign down the block.
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Walking in the Rain at 2AM - NYC Chinatown - 4K ASMR

Spring · Rain · 1 hr 1 min · March 2023

Two a.m. in Chinatown, New York City, and it is raining. The streets glow with the colors of the festive decorations — that is straight from the field notes, and it is the whole scene: wet pavement doing its second job as a mirror, for an hour. The camera usually walks Boston; this was a visit, and the description even asks whether it should come back. The 3D binaural sound puts the rain right around you and lets the city hum at the distance a city should. An hour and a minute. New York at 2 a.m. in the rain is a different city from the one in the pictures — quieter, wetter, lit for nobody in particular. This recording prefers that one.

Video poster: New York's Chinatown at 2 a.m. in rain: graffiti-tagged shutters glowing under a yellow storefront sign, a stop sign down the block.

Best with headphones — the audio is true binaural. Watch on YouTube (recommended on TV).

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