American Patrol Boats Museum
American Patrol Boats Museum
New York: Take a bite of Big Apple
Take a piece, or a bite of many of the Big Apple. We took the NJ Transit in New York. The bus is modern bus to 42nd Street Port Authority. The port authority is a ground transportation center of many new York. Most bus main are there and you can connect to almost all subway lines through a tunnel on foot Times Square. The hubs are Grand Central Railway Station, served by Transportation underground Times Square and Penn Station, a journey of two subway stations. The Underground system in Manhattan is the fastest transportation and more efficient on the island, with stops in four to six blocks from each other. The system used to be confused with many separate lines designated by different letters: IRT, BMT, etc. At present the different lines and colors are designated by numbers or letters. A map shows routes and points of connection. The subway system is now very easy to follow. It is also quite contrary to the perception of some people. Here are some little known facts about the system. The tunnels go at least eight floors underground. There are miles of mazes, even in the tubes themselves, which homeless people have made their homes. In one of the lines of Manhattan in Queens, the tracks literally walk on water under the East River. Same engineers do not know how to fix the problem. The proceeds of the ticket is sent by a special train which moves through the system. Trains are very long, at least ten cars long. More cars are benches along the sides, leaving most of the car stand. There are three dots on each side the car, allowing easy access and exit. Runners straps called because they cling to straps hanging from the ceiling while driving. The newer cars as the next stop in the car. Some even have a map of the route and current location vehicle are lit on the card.
New York City comprises five boroughs: Reyes (Manhattan), Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn and Richmond (Staten Island). All districts are connected to the subway or the train or bus, with the exception of Staten Island is served by ferry famous. Learn more about different areas where we have visited.
I left the desert at Cafe Lalo, where part of the movie "You've Got Mail "was filmed. Then we walked down Broadway in Fairfield market, a few blocks from the famous South Zabar, a supermarket and shop devices (but much more experience). I was surprised by the variety of fresh produce and meat, fish and poultry prices relatively low. The corridors are very narrow in the store, because that space is a luxury in Manhattan. Buy unlimited subway pass, 21.00 $ For the week, and a bus ride to downtown Broadway. City Center to promote the battery, the southern tip of Manhattan.
Uptown is north and the city Cross-east or the East River (East Side) or a Hudson River (West Side). What better way to find and secure the city. We moved by Columbus Circle, at the edge of Central Park, Julliard, Lincoln Center, the theater district, and of course superb dynamic Times Square. The bus turned east on 42nd Street and approved by the Public Library, Grand Central Station, and ended in the UN building.
Fate brought us there, we visited the famous UN building. Mati from Senegal in West Africa, was our guide and was very well informed about the functioning of the UN. It is the paper tiger that some people claim it is. It is a real forum for all nations the world to discuss issues of common interest: military conflicts, landmines, disease, hunger, trade, etc. Maybe they are real tigers want to control other nations or to obtain huge profits through the promotion of these problems. Some rooms have been used, namely the Security Council and the Council of Economic and Social Justice. They were in session.
The bus goes to downtown Lexington Avenue. On the way we passed through Chinatown, the Bowery, Little Italy, Greenwich Village skirt, and ends at the hotel City. There are many different types of restaurants in New York that you can eat in a different Repeat for each night and all your life.
Today, we ride the subway. First, we went to Uptown to the northern tip of Manhattan in Fort Tryon Park. This is the highest point in Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson and East rivers. At the northernmost point of the park is the Museum cloisters. This unique museum consists five medieval cloisters saved Demolition of buildings in Europe, and many shrines and artifacts. Some of these statues was used Scarecrow as the farmers, while others were found in piles of junk. One room highlights the Unicorn tapestries, discussing the hunt, death and resurrection of the unicorn, a symbol of Jesus Christ. The fabrics contain more than one hundred different species of plants Medieval woven into the stories. They are simply incredible, not only its beauty but also the textures of fabrics.
Went Times Square, then jumped off the train route No. 7 of Queens and Flushing Meadows, the site of Expo 1963 with its huge sculpture in the world. Of each side of the station are Shea Stadium, home of the baseball team New York Mets and the Arthur Ashe Stadium, home of the U.S. Open tennis tournament. Back on the train to Times Square and Coney Island Road W at the tip of Brooklyn. We ate a Nathan's Hot Dog World famous. You can not compared to a dog Chicago Vienna hot. The amusement park was closed, open only on weekends while school is in session. The cyclone famous roller coaster, all closed. With our stomachs growling for this lack of time. It is open daily from 12:00 to 4:00 am. The mountain does not look like much. But Appearances are deceptive. This baby shake, shake, and rollers. I wanted to see if it always gave me the same excitement as the last time I rode 1963. But it would be one day later that never happened.
This day is reserved for visiting the grande dame of New York, the Statue of Liberty. In train to Battery Park at the lower end of Manhattan, Buy tickets at Castle Clinton, once a guardian of the fortress port and a concert hall (the American debut of Jenny Lind), then a port of entry immigration, and now the box office of the Virgin. Circular in shape, it is logical that one must pass through a fortress to greet the access to the great lady. In the journey of fifteen minutes by boat to the island governors is easy to imagine the deep feelings of wonder and joy of millions of immigrants who are expected your first candle, while Verrazano Narrows in New York Harbor. The statue, a gift from France more than a hundred years, is in another box, one of five protected port. The pedestal rises eleven stories and the woman herself is 151 meters. Once again safety is very narrow and visitors will not allow either the museum on the base, or crown. But being in his presence was, as we say in Hebrew, "Dayenu" (It would sufficient).
Boarding the ship returned to Ellis Island, built in 1892 to treat the great flood of immigrants. Two of our ancestors arrived before that date, he could have come at Castle Clinton, AKA, the gardens or in a different port of entry. Charlie Walker Ranger was our guide. A Once the instructor has a voice to match. He missed his call to the scene, because the tour was over, he gave a presentation Live with a gallery of characters that reciting facts and figures boring. Absolutely love his work. The experience of Ellis Island has been reserved passengers in the third grade class. Recalling the movie "Titanic" Bow is the lowest of the low. Passengers in first and second class were processed aboard ship. After landing, the ship proceeded to Ellis Island. Here Bow class ran the challenge of the eyes of inspectors. I recalled the images of the Holocaust, where prisoners were "selected". If you walk funny protest, or looked frail, his garments were marked with chalk to the inspection and subsequent processing. Many of these people have fled oppressive regimes and were terrified by men in uniform. In the United States have been receiving orders for more men. Families were separated, while that the transformation takes place, the men on one side and women and children from across the room. The good news is that all process took less than five hours and only 2% of the twelve million immigrants returned to their countries of origin. Those who remained were trains western New Jersey or a trip to New York, underground excavation, or other back breaking jobs.
Back to Battery Park walk Broadway. At the entrance, the sculpture of the Globe of Peace was established on the World Trade Center. Miraculously survived the tragedy and it is now at the foot of Broadway, which is watched by an eternal flame. Although damaged, the world stops for peace in this world.
He traversed the neighborhood business, which resembles a war zone, barricades and armed police patrolling the area. Our target was the Federal Hall at Nassau, Broad and Wall streets. Federal Hall was the first capital of the United States. Here in Washington, was sworn in as president and joined the Congress. The building has long been demolished. In its place is a neoclassical building designed on the outside as the Parthenon and within Pantheon-like. It is used as a customs post and as trustee for the U.S. gold reserves Civil War, now a museum to remind our first capital. One of his most prized possessions is the Bible that Washington used to take office (the one who wanted to use President Bartlett on The West Wing ")
Walk along the famous Wall Street, where many have never been raped by so few (written on five years) we at Trinity Church, where many come to pray after losing all their savings in the street. Built in 1696, the church has suffered numerous falls on Wall Street. People buried include Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton.
Many people talked about us visit the cathedral St. John the Divine. Fortunately, we followed his advice. Launched in 1892, this Gothic house of worship is more than two football fields long. The cathedral is not yet completed, but still spectacular. Each set of windows has a different theme: poetry, medicine, law, etc. Standing inside a humiliating experience not to be missed. Around the altar are chapels, which is reserved for local artists to present their work. At that time the school children of the cathedral have their works on the screen.
San Juan is a short bus ride to the tomb of Grant where he and his wife was at rest. The interior is similar to the tomb of Napoleon in Paris. Mrs.Grant chose New York because the people were friendly with them after they have become a dime. The tomb is located high in the palisades overlooking Riverside Park and the Hudson River.
Close the grave is Sukaru Park, so named because many of the cherry trees in the park, which were donated by the Japanese government. The park is a statue of General Daniel Butterworth, composer of Taps (remember Berkeley Plantation, Virginia). He looks at the tomb of Grant, his eyes fixed on the sacred soil.
Across the street from the Riverside Church, a Presbyterian Church is remarkable for its bells chime in the seventies. The nave of the church is Gothic, but not so much of San Juan. The Church is part of the Union Theological Seminary, which is connected to Columbia University is also in this area.
We got on the train back to his place of birth Theodore Roosevelt. It is a great house at 28 East 20th Street. The original house was demolished and rebuilt, built to design similar plans for others in the neighborhood. Her sisters still alive educated on floor plans and furniture arrangements in the house, as agreed. Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family, was suffering from asthma. After lost his first wife and mother in the same week, he moved to North Dakota to find. There he found his love for nature and independence the ordinary working man. To prove his manhood, he wanted a war, which he got when the battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, Cuba. The Spaniards were accused by the collapse. Has the Rough Riders in San Antonio, Texas, and the rest is history. From his office said the building the Panama Canal has been his greatest achievement. Even if he was a warmonger and empire builder, was the first American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end the war, Russian Japanese.
A little further south lies the village of Greenwich, not are not all the bohemian atmosphere that was in the 60s. It is still booming area restaurants, small theaters, boutiques and interesting people watching. Washington Square, the quasi-official entry in the region, still has its charm and tables with chess game ever moving.
Arrested for Lincoln Center and bought tickets for the morning in New York City Ballet performance. Lincoln Center, 64th and Broadway is a performing arts complex in New York. Accompanying a beautiful fountain, which was a focal point in many movies are the Metropolitan Opera House "Before, Avery Fisher Hall on the right, the house of the New York Philharmonic and New York State Theater on the left, the home of New York City Ballet. Just outside of the horseshoe is Julliard School of Music.
He attended the Ballet. The program Concerto Barocco, Symphony, Symphony in three movements, and the Carnival of the Animals. Music time of Bach, Stravinsky and Saint-Saens, respectively. The dancers George Balanchine is known for its precision and beauty in the details and technique. Today, this shoe toe foot must be returned to the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago.
New production of a ballet old schedule today, Carnival of the Animals. Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon is a great talent at the age of twenty. Requested by John Lithgow, star of "Third Rock from the Sun", to write a story for the ballet. Mr. Lithgow has written many children's books and took the opportunity. His story is a child, Oliver, locked in a museum of natural history of the night. Animals are to life, but they appear to people in his personal life. The costumes give clues about the animals represented and the narration puts the different parts perfection. Mr. Lithgow does as narrator and is part of the elephant, the school nurse Oliver. The ballet is very entertaining to both in its humor and choreography.
About the Author
John Pelley is a Geriatric Gypsy. He is retired from the rat race of working. He is a full-time RVer, who ran away from home. He began our travels on the East Coast and, like the migrating birds, seek the warmth of the seasons He has discovered volunteering with the National Park System. He has a CD he has recorded of Native American flute music., A Day with Kokopelli. For pictures, links, and more information visit http://www.jmpelley.org.
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