AN AMERICAN IN ARGENTINA: Travels in Latin America [Part 5]

I found Buenos Aires like nothing so much as New York City. OK, the buildings aren’t as tall. However, the pace, the presence of subway entrances everywhere downtown, the sense of “a city that doesn’t sleep,” the tacky tourist shops and the sight of homeless people sleeping in the doorways of upscale restaurants, banks and stores—such things reminded me of my time in New York.