Classic Trip - Novel York, Novel York 2000 - Business Office 1

Those of you lot who receive got followed our adventures over the years know that nosotros dear New York.  I'd receive got to country that, pound for pound, it's the most exciting urban inwardness inwards America.  Here is a recap of the 2nd trip nosotros took to the urban inwardness dorsum over a long Martin Luther King Day weekend inwards 2000...

Our 2-day New York adventure lastly autumn whetted our appetite for more. We had thus much fun that nosotros decided to furnish inwards the belatedly winter/spring to explore it a piddling deeper.

This time, past times carefully tracking hotel room rates, nosotros were able to notice a hotel inwards Manhattan. I loathe to country it was cheap because at $120 a nighttime it would live upwards in that location almost anywhere else. In Manhattan, that’s a bargain. We stayed at the Hotel Pennsylvania, across the street from Madison Square Garden in addition to Penn Station.

The flying was on American Airlines into Islip on Long Island amongst a alter of planes inwards Boston. From here, nosotros took Colonial Shuttle from the airdrome to Ronkonkoma station on the Long Island Railroad. The prepare in addition to thus took us to Penn Station, straight across from our hotel.

One lastly regime annotation earlier nosotros begin, all tube stations mentioned inwards this article receive got elevators for accessibility.

Day One, Friday, was spent traveling. The exclusively affair worth noting is that when nosotros arrived at the hotel, they didn’t receive got ii touchstone rooms available...we had reserved ii in addition to confirmed them amongst the provision that 1 had to live wheelchair accessible. Just when it was starting to expect bad, the managing director upgraded us to the Presidential Suite at no extra cost.

While the bathrooms were non equally accessible inwards the regular sense, the chair agree inwards it in addition to Tim was able to work whatever bars in addition to counters in that location were to concur himself upwards in addition to transfer.

The suite itself was immense. 3 big bedrooms, 1 big bath in addition to ii smaller ones, a living room, walk-in closets, dining room in addition to kitchen. We had views inwards 3 directions looking due east to the Empire State Building (the painting present at the elevation was taken from our room), South to the World Trade Center (RIP), in addition to westward to a room inwards the other wing.

Day Two, Saturday. We woke upwards to pelting in addition to 40° temperatures. The conditions forecast on Yahoo had predicted this thus nosotros were create amongst our moisture conditions clothes. After breakfast inwards the foyer at Lindy’s...overpriced amongst an attitude...our expedition begins.

We walk over to Grand Central Station. Transit could receive got got us in that location faster and easier, but nosotros were inwards the mood for walking that morn in addition to were rewarded amongst a glorious, if wet, stroll upwards Park Avenue into America’s most beautiful prepare station. While drinking inwards the views of the marvelous zodiac ceiling, nosotros alternative upwards our transit passes for the solar daytime in addition to brand our means over to the tube station downstairs (access via get upwards adjacent to the pump 42nd Street entrance).

The wooden walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge

 We larn off at the Brooklyn Bridge stop, brand a lap across this American icon in addition to back, in addition to caput dorsum to Grand Central on the subway. We had a fellow member of our grouping who, for reasons exclusively known to him, had dreamed of going to the Bronx someday. We board a northbound Metro North prepare to Fordham Station inwards the Bronx. From there, the #9 motorbus takes us over to the entrance to the Bronx Zoo.

While it would receive got preferable to consider the zoo on a clear day, in that location are nevertheless plenty indoor exhibits to brand a trip inwards the pelting worthwhile. In amongst the gift store was a keen display of elephants in addition to tapirs. Nearby was the monkey house amongst dozens of playful primates, in all probability the most enjoyable of all the exhibits. After that was a display of waterbirds in addition to birds of prey including an enormous Andean condor.

Times Square

 To complete off this incredibly hectic day, nosotros toured Times Square amongst its blinding advertising displays in addition to dined at a wonderful piddling Italian house called Sam’s on West 47th Street.

The theaters of Broadway are simply off Times Square

Our plans were to complete off past times downing some mutual coldness brews at Times Square Brewery, but it was simply means also crowded.

Day Three, Sunday. Despite a few piddling remaining sprinkles, the pelting appears to live gone in addition to the Sun is making a valiant endeavor to pause through. The temperatures remain mired inwards the 40's but today nosotros shall live dry. We kickoff past times having a breakfast buffet at Sbarro’s across the street from the hotel. The cost is much less than Lindy’s...$4.99 for all you lot tin forcefulness out swallow compared to $11.55 for ii eggs in addition to toast...but the staff’s mental attitude was downright rude. At to the lowest degree inwards New York, Sbarro’s volition non live on the itinerary anymore.

Lady Liberty

We kickoff past times taking a downtown train, the #3, to the World Trade Center from Penn Station. From here, nosotros walk along the Hudson to Battery Park...about viii blocks. The crowds are fairly lean hither today, thus nosotros accept a adventure in addition to purchase tickets for the Statue of Liberty ferry. Once you lot receive got your tickets, wheelers larn to cutting inwards the front end of the business eliminating whatever hold off (a Jamaican immature human being selling knock-off sunglasses was form plenty to tell us this when nosotros caput for the dorsum of the line).

This is equally unopen equally you lot larn inwards a wheelchair

After a quick ride, you’re on Liberty Island looking upwards at the statue. Again, wheelers cutting to the front end of the business but you’re express to visiting the pedestal in addition to can’t genuinely larn inwards the statue itself - it takes beingness able to climb 354 steps to larn to the top. Overall, I mean value you lot larn a improve persuasion of the statue from the complimentary Staten Island Ferry than you lot create on the isle itself.

Back on the ferry to Battery Park - nosotros skipped the halt at Ellis Island - where nosotros caught the #6 motorbus dorsum to Herald Square. Here nosotros dined on some delicious New York pizza though I couldn’t consider a holler on the place. Then it was a ii block walk dorsum to the hotel where nosotros rested upwards for the eve activities.

Later, some other #6 motorbus took us downwardly Broadway headed for 19th Street. It broke downwardly at 24th Street thus nosotros walked the residual of the way. We had dinner at Friend of a Farmer on Irving Place betwixt 18th & 19th Streets. Good food, non spectacular, but decent.

Stay tuned for work ii in addition to our run across amongst "Dangerous Dan"...

-Darryl

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