07/09: New York City
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
This morning we rode the express Bus to NYC and it was reasonably express though it was stop and go through the tunnel.
Another thing Ed and I have never done is ride one of the Hop on Hop off buses. Well now we have. First ride was on the uptown route. We decided that we wanted to get a feel of the city so we road the route from the Port Authority bus terminal past Central Park north to Harmlem then back south through the Upper East Side along the other side of Central Park ending at Time Square.
There were lots of tall buildings and churches.
A number of statues.
Of course, lots of traffic.
Outside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art we saw this class of girls. Their school is across the street from the museum.
And finally Time Square.
At Time Square we switched to the Downtown Tour Bus. This route took us through the Financial District to Battery Park then back through Chinatown, past the United Nations, along 5th Avenue then through midtown ending up at Time Square.
On this tour we saw a lot of historic buildings like the Empire State Building and the Flatiron building.
Lots of interesting murals on the buildings.
Old court buildings
Lots of modern tall sky scrapers as well.
Time Square again. As it was getting later in the day, Time Square was feeling a lot like Bourbon Street in New Orleans. There were lots of street performers, people dressed in costumes wanting money if you took their photo and then there were the girls that were barely dressed. They had on g-string panties and body paint.
On our walk past the theaters towards the bus station we passed a parking lot. The sign gave us one reason you don't want to drive into NYC --- the cost of parking. I'm sure street parking is more affordable is you can find a spot. Given the price of accommodations in NYC they probably consider $600 a month for parking to be reasonable. According to one of our tour guides $2,000 a month for an apartment is cheap. The average cost of an apartment is many areas of Manhattan is over $4,000 a month.
Another thing Ed and I have never done is ride one of the Hop on Hop off buses. Well now we have. First ride was on the uptown route. We decided that we wanted to get a feel of the city so we road the route from the Port Authority bus terminal past Central Park north to Harmlem then back south through the Upper East Side along the other side of Central Park ending at Time Square.
There were lots of tall buildings and churches.
A number of statues.
Of course, lots of traffic.
Outside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art we saw this class of girls. Their school is across the street from the museum.
And finally Time Square.
At Time Square we switched to the Downtown Tour Bus. This route took us through the Financial District to Battery Park then back through Chinatown, past the United Nations, along 5th Avenue then through midtown ending up at Time Square.
On this tour we saw a lot of historic buildings like the Empire State Building and the Flatiron building.
Lots of interesting murals on the buildings.
Old court buildings
Lots of modern tall sky scrapers as well.
Time Square again. As it was getting later in the day, Time Square was feeling a lot like Bourbon Street in New Orleans. There were lots of street performers, people dressed in costumes wanting money if you took their photo and then there were the girls that were barely dressed. They had on g-string panties and body paint.
On our walk past the theaters towards the bus station we passed a parking lot. The sign gave us one reason you don't want to drive into NYC --- the cost of parking. I'm sure street parking is more affordable is you can find a spot. Given the price of accommodations in NYC they probably consider $600 a month for parking to be reasonable. According to one of our tour guides $2,000 a month for an apartment is cheap. The average cost of an apartment is many areas of Manhattan is over $4,000 a month.