Let’s Cruise
Sunday morning . . . Time to start our second part of our adventure. Fred, Lupe and Steve started off the day going to Mass at Church of St. Francis of Assisi. Everyone else decided and extra hour of sleep/packing was a good idea. We had breakfast our last time at the Hampton Inn and […]
Window Tourism
Window tourism is, after all, is a time-honored New York holiday tradition. According to NYC & Company, the city’s destination marketing organization, 30 percent of last years total visitation took place in the fourth quarter of the year; more than in any other season; typically five million visitors come to the city between Thanksgiving and […]
Chronicling Immigration
After visiting the Statue of Liberty, we took the ferry over to Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. The museum is located in the Main Building of the former immigration station complex. The French Renaissance Revival structure, restored to its 1918 – 1924 appearance, tells the moving tales of the 12 million immigrants who entered […]
Rockefeller Center Top of the Rock
With the country facing economic catastrophe and the world between two wars, John D. Rockefeller’s vision for his center never wavered. Rockefeller Center and the observation deck were his gifts to Manhattan – a place for locals and visitors to marvel at the city he loved. We had heard that getting to Top of the […]
Lady Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was a joint effort between France and the United States, intended to commemorate the lasting friendship between the peoples of the two nations. The French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi created the statue itself out of sheets of hammered copper, while Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the man behind the famed Eiffel Tower, designed the statue’s […]
Giant Ornaments
Giant ornaments are displayed annually during the holidays at different locations in NYC, including Rockefeller Center on 6th Avenue.
Subway
Yes. It may not be one of the prettier parts of the city, but riding the Subway is always an adventure, just make sure you’re going in the direction you want to be going. Up and down the stairs we went, trying to decide if we were going uptown or downtown. Which train did we […]
An Off Broadway Show
For our last night in NYC, we went to see Clever Little Lies at the Westside Theatre at 407 West 43rd Street in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. The building was constructed in 1890 in the Romanesque Revival style. At first, the building was used for the Second German Baptist Church, in later years as various […]
The Best of New York Food
As we were leaving the Financial District, it was time for lunch. We came upon a deli named The Best of New York Food. It was a true NY deli with breakfast eats, sandwiches, burgers, soups and of course, New York Cheesecake. Our food was very fresh, a good value for NYC and very good […]
Never Forget
As we entered the 8-acre park a soft slow rain started to fall. The park is a supremely contemplative sanctuary, composed of a grove of nearly 400 white oak trees, and the largest man-made waterfalls in the United States. Set within the footprints of the original Twin Towers, each pool is approximately 1-acre in size. […]