7:32 - Gary shakes the milk carton with a loose cap and spills some milk all over the kitchen floor.
8:05 - Nancy ran her own cup through the K-cup TWICE - coffee all over the kitchen counter.
I’ts got got to get better.
And, it was another perfect day in New York. Here’s our schedule:
get up at 6:00
drive to train station by 7:30. park, note parking space #, buy ticket for that space
buy train ticket inside the station
get on the 7:53 Express train into New York.
We are lucky here in Croton-on-Hudson because it is a major hub for the Metro North railroad which is the railroad between Poughkeepsie which is about 35 miles north of us and New York. Every train stops here and many express trains to NYC start here. Parking in the lot here is $9.00 on the weekdays ad $5.00 on the weekends. 2 round-trip tickets for 2 old duffers are $40.50. Thus it costs $50 to get into and back from New York. At that price, why don’t we drive? Are you nuts? Drive into New York? Well, it costs about $30 to park there at the minimum and then you’ve actually got to drive that car through New York traffic. Not us. We don’t rock climb and we don’t drive in New York City. Some people actually do these things - I think they’re nuts.
Who says that New Yorkers are rude and inconsiderate? We don’t often look lost but every time we have, there are been people there to ask if we need help. Once as we were emerging from the subway, a guy with tickets in his hand asked if we had tickets for the Statue of Liberty. As we were saying that we already had ours, a guy strode by and whispered to me as he passed ‘watch out for the scam artists.’ He never looked at me, he never broke stride but he was trying to help those two old rubes from the sticks. Thanks, whoever you are.
The views from the Staten Island Ferry are amazing, shipping, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and check out this view of he Manhattan skyline. And - the ride is free. Can you believe this? Something as special as this is free? In fact most of the people on the ferry got off, circled around and got back on the the return trip. Gotta be the best bargain in the Big Apple.
We walked through Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan. Check out the small church in the middle of these two.
We found these three neat photos of Lower Manhattan at different dates showing it growth and changes.
And look at my photo above to see what it looks like today.
Who buys a round-trip subway ticket and then walks back? Us. And, what a great walk. It’s Sunday, it’s sunny, it’s warm and all the New Yorkers who are tired of weekdays, clouds and cool temps were all out.
Washington Square was lively and filled with all sorts of activities.
And, of course, the Washington Arch.
We found the narrowest house in New York. Seems that this used to be an alley between two homes until the guy on the left got tired of all the traffic and built a home in the middle. Edna St. Vincent Millay used to live her while she was writing her poems. It’s all of 9 1/2’ across.
Here’s the fountain where Bob Dylan got his start. He strummed his guitar, he sang and the rest is history.
Did you know the Hari Krishna’s still exist? Yep, we saw a group of them in Union Square.
We saw my favorite building, the Flatiron. Not easy to build on a triangular lot but this building is stunning, especially in the sun.
And then there's the Empire State Building. Did you know that, when it was built, in the beginning of the Great Depression, no one could afford to lease a space. It was nicknamed The Empty State Building.
You know, there’s something happening on every street in New York. We rounded the corner of the Public Library and a wedding reception was just starting. Here the guests are arriving through a line of ushers with a bank playing on the steps. The guests arrived in 3 Prevost buses and were dressed to the nines.
We also saw this museum. Museums are our thing. But, I barely stuck my head into this one to take this picture and I rushed out again. My face must have been 5 shades of pink.
Finally, we stopped to admire the Chrysler building towering over Grand Central Stationbefore we were on the train heading home. A stunning example of Art Deco architecture.
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