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Travelogues/ New York

At the UN (photo by Noam Galai /Getty Images)

I look through the plane window and blink at the white fields stretching on both sides. I wasn’t expecting the snow. I do not have the right shoes and I do not have the right coat. But New York does not care whether its visitors are well-prepared or not the way a dream would not care whether the person who i…