I don't know how New York is, but since it never sleeps - people gotta need a lot of coffee ... I remember a friend from Seattle though, visiting Copenhagen. When he first came over (he stayed in Cph a year) he found it interesting that people could walk around at night without being stopped by the police and asked what they were doing *lol* ... we told him that the normal way to "party" was going from place to place as the old one closed and the new ones opened - ending up at a breakfast-bar where you could have some eating with your beer, before going home to crash