Three sailors are on a 24-hour leave, determined to find some "girls" and prove that New York, New York really is a helluva town.

Ni Tuya, Ni Mia, De Todos New York, New York, it's a helluva town.

For its part, the city's host committee plastered the Garden with posters reminding delegates that New York has 18,000 restaurants, 662 miles of subway track, 150 museums and 1,700 parks - in short, that it's still a helluva town.

The first hole is presumably the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge; on it is written: "New York, New York, a helluva town" and some older children get all excited by reading "helluva" aloud.

Lou is holding Rosa when a doctor walks up to him and says, "This used to be a helluva town, officer."

As the Leonard Bernstein song goes, "New York, New York, it's a helluva town," and it has been for more than 350 years.

Sans crime, sans drugs, with spotless subways and no traffic on the streets, New York New York is a helluva town.

The best known line of this song is, "New York, New York, a helluva town.

After all, in the words of that classic Bernstein-Comden-Green song, "New York, New York, it's a helluva town."

Rocky, who lived in the suburbs before moving to Manhattan, just keeps expanding on Frank Sinatra: "New York, New York, it's a helluva town, but I don't want no part of it."