New York is one of the cities in the world where you can do practically anything and at almost any time of the day or night. Whoever gets bored in this city is because they want to.
Among the many unusual things you can do in New York is attend a trial. Yes, yes, as you read it. We have been shown in numerous movies and television series how trials and justice work in the United States. For the very curious or those who love to do different things, a good plan may be to enter the Palace of Justice to see a trial. Why not?
When New Yorkers are arrested, they appear before the judge in the building of the Chinatown Criminal Courts. So far nothing that the movies or television has not shown you, right? Well it turns out that if you go to New York, you can come in and attend this strange form of entertainment.
Between five thirty in the afternoon and one in the morning, the cases occur in a kind of reality show without cameras.
The lawyers argue, the defendants sit on the bench and those who are not released on bail are taken to cells that, yes, cannot be visited (or should not want to visit them). You can sit next to the inmate's family or on the back benches with law students and some curious New Yorkers.
It is something so common and accepted that if you arrive and do not know where to enter, officials tell you the most interesting cases to watch.
It is free and the only thing is that you have to have a very good level of English to follow the litigation and find out what is being seen.