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New York City is about a 5-1/2 hour drive from our
home in northern New York. For several years, we would go there
one or two times a year to see Broadway shows. Since we haven't been since 2003, we decided that a visit
there was necessary.
We drove down on Saturday,
February 14. We usually stay in a hotel in North Bergen, New
Jersey. It is just off the Lincoln Tunnel and with mass transit,
it is a quick, and inexpensive shot into Manhattan. We don't have
to worry about parking our car in the city and, because we either walk
or take the subway, we usually get quite a bit of exercise.
On Sunday morning, we took the
bus into the Port Authority Bus Terminal. We spent the day in
Manhattan which included the afternoon at the Winter Garden Theatre on
Broadway to see Mamma Mia. Marcia's cousin Melissa moved to
Manhattan last fall. We had contacted her earlier in the day and
coincidentally, her parents, Uncle Dan and Aunt Linda, were down
visiting her. We all met for dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe at Times
Square.
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We bussed back in on Monday
and took the subway down to Battery Park on the southern end of
Manhattan. We took a ferry boat out to Liberty Island and saw
the Statue of Liberty. Since the 9/11 attacks in 2001 the top has
been closed to the public. They are talking about opening it up
again so that people may climb to the top, but at this point, you can
only go up about mid-way. It's 156 steps and not for the faint of
heart! If anyone is thinking of doing this, you should be advised
that you have to go through airport style security on the
mainland. Once you get to Liberty Island, we had about an hour
wait to get into the monument ... and this was in February. Also,
you can't take backpacks, bags, food or drink up with you. They do
provide lockers to store your belongings at a nominal cost. It was
$1 when we were there.
Afterward, we took the subway up to
Chinatown and had a late lunch at the Wing Wong Restaurant on Lafayette
Street. The egg rolls were close to the best we've ever had.
Make sure they understand what you ordered. I asked for Sesame
Chicken and got General Tso's! We jumped back on the subway and went back to Times Square where we did
a little shopping before returning to New Jersey.
Another of Marcia's cousins,
Janet, and her husband Justin, live in New Jersey. Their place is
only a few minutes from our hotel. In fact, they know the area
well because they belong to a gym just across the highway from the
hotel. They came over to the hotel for a few hours that evening
and we had a nice visit with them.
We got up Tuesday morning and
drove back home by way of Dexter where we stopped for the weekly jam
session.
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