6/8/11 - 6/14/11 There is NO place like New York City. It makes your senses go on overload. The brightness and the heat of the day on one side of the street and the dim shade and the cold air conditioning coming out of the doors of stores as you pass on the other, the smell of pizza then the smell of bus exhaust, the sounds of horns honking, cops whistles and conversations in more languages than you know. We had people tell us "Don't look like tourists because you'll make yourself a target". I don't believe it matters. We saw everything from a guy in his underwear and boots playing a guitar in an intersection to a guy in a three piece suit stepping into a stretch limo. The marina was the least expensive we could find but it was at the extreme southern end of Brooklyn at the edge of the "projects". It took a fifteen minute hike, two buses and a subway ride each way every day to get into Manhattan. We saw a Broadway musical "The Addams Family" (very very good), Central Park, Trump Tower, The Plaza Hotel, and went into Tiffanys and FAO Swartz on Fifth Ave.. We saw The NYC Library, Ground Zero, the outside of the NY Stock Exchange (no entry permitted since 9/11) and went to the top (almost) of the Empire State Building. We spent one whole day at the Metropolitan Museum (absolutely overwhelming!). We went to Coney Island and the NY Aquarium. Lace needed a hair cut so we walked into a hair salon near Wall Street. Lace sat down in the chair and explained briefly to the hair dresser how she wanted it cut. The hair dresser nodded and made all the right sounds but we found out later that she mostly only spoke Russian. The hair cut wasn't exactly what she had in mind but Lace was very gracious and we took a group photo. On Sunday we took the requisite bus and subway rides up to the north side of Brooklyn and attended services at the local Presbyterian church (which is a school cafeteria most days) with our friend Elsa. Later we ate lunch with her and her daughter Cassie and then visited Cassie's apartment where we met her husband John. After a week of New York and again on the edge of exhaustion we put some groceries on the boat and shoved off past the Statue of Liberty and up the Hudson River.
6/8/11 - 6/14/11 There is NO place like New York City. It makes your senses go on overload. The brightness and the heat of the day on one side of the street and the dim shade and the cold air conditioning coming out of the doors of stores as you pass on the other, the smell of pizza then the smell of bus exhaust, the sounds of horns honking, cops whistles and conversations in more languages than you know. We had people tell us "Don't look like tourists because you'll make yourself a target". I don't believe it matters. We saw everything from a guy in his underwear and boots playing a guitar in an intersection to a guy in a three piece suit stepping into a stretch limo. The marina was the least expensive we could find but it was at the extreme southern end of Brooklyn at the edge of the "projects". It took a fifteen minute hike, two buses and a subway ride each way every day to get into Manhattan. We saw a Broadway musical "The Addams Family" (very very good), Central Park, Trump Tower, The Plaza Hotel, and went into Tiffanys and FAO Swartz on Fifth Ave.. We saw The NYC Library, Ground Zero, the outside of the NY Stock Exchange (no entry permitted since 9/11) and went to the top (almost) of the Empire State Building. We spent one whole day at the Metropolitan Museum (absolutely overwhelming!). We went to Coney Island and the NY Aquarium. Lace needed a hair cut so we walked into a hair salon near Wall Street. Lace sat down in the chair and explained briefly to the hair dresser how she wanted it cut. The hair dresser nodded and made all the right sounds but we found out later that she mostly only spoke Russian. The hair cut wasn't exactly what she had in mind but Lace was very gracious and we took a group photo. On Sunday we took the requisite bus and subway rides up to the north side of Brooklyn and attended services at the local Presbyterian church (which is a school cafeteria most days) with our friend Elsa. Later we ate lunch with her and her daughter Cassie and then visited Cassie's apartment where we met her husband John. After a week of New York and again on the edge of exhaustion we put some groceries on the boat and shoved off past the Statue of Liberty and up the Hudson River.
Too bad you couldn't just dock by Charlene's Apartment building in the East River.
ReplyDeletep.s. I went to Tiffanys, too...when I was there for the K-State Bowl game in December...but I came out of Tiffanys empty handed!!! Did Eileen leave Tiffanys like me or did she have a little blue bag to bring home???
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