Heya Courtney, and welcome to ThePhotoForum.
You will see that your pics got a) moved to the General Gallery which is where they belong much rather than "The Beginner's Place", which is more for questions and answers on photography for beginners, and that b) I went into your thread to edit it.
What did I do?
I put SPACES between your links.
All these 9x2 photos, 18 all in all, were in one single line, bursting the seams any screen. Horizontal scrolling isn't so good. So to all newbies and anyone: please put at least two spaces between each of your links.
And I numbered your photos.
For with such an amount of photos it is much easier for the viewer to comment on them when they can say "I like photo # so-and-so best because...", see?
Now as for someone who has been to NYC in April of this year for the first time in her life, these are highly interesting to me, of course, and I like what you captured and how.
In the way you present them, two in one frame, they are a bit on the small side, but that maybe be just as well when there are 18 pics to look at.
You have applied a great variety of post processing to your photos, so I can tell you are far from being such a beginner.
Do post more. (With numbers and spaces

). See you around.