I wasted a night of taking photos
Tripods may not be allowed on the street. You need to google that. That said, there may be locations where you won't get hassled, and you won't be in the way. There are plenty of people that get long exposure shots of buildings/etc in NYC.
Until you take the shots, and examine them later, after going through post, you will never know if the shot was good or not. Because you don't have it.
Henri Cartier-Bresson: "your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."
That should tell you something. Take the shot.
Better to have taken a shot and not get what you wanted then never to have taken at all. We do not improve be being successful, we improve by failing.
Dare to fail, dude.
Oh, and those generic shots that "everybody takes"? They're not you. You haven't taken them yet... so what's stopping you?
Here's the cover photo for a photography group I'm trying to get off the ground. My current favorite quote, because it says everything about what your perspective should be.
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