A day spent in NYC
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eumeliaTo anyone who has never been to New York City... you must!
To those who live there... I am so effing jealous!!
So what happened on the glorious day of my visit to NYC?
Philadelphia is about two hours away from NYC, so I caught the 09:00 AM bus from Philly's Chinatown, which, unlike the some of the rumors going around about the China-bus, did not veer off the road and kill me, nor did it attempt to kill any of the other drivers on the road.
Surprisingly it took only an hour and a half to get to Manhattan.
One thing I never expected was to get off the bus in Manhattan and have it smell like the peer, yes the fish smell is permanent feature of Chinatown's main street.
Met up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
orcabee, who navigated the subway system superbly, Lisa, had I not been with you I'd have wasted a ton on time just trying to get to where I thought I wanted to go, so again, thank you.
The first thing we went to was the Guggenheim, which the building alone could have been a museum piece, it's built like a spiral and the whole path was lined with modern art sculptures made by an Artist named David Smith, he made beautiful sculptures made of forged metal and wood, the combination between those materials made a very dramatic affect; my favourite piece is called "Egyptian Landscape".
Mummy would have enjoyed the collections and exhibitions, I kept thinking about her when I was looking at the Kandinsky exhibition, which as usual, was colourful and magnificent.
I personally enjoyed the Impressionists the best, they had beautiful paintings of Monet and looking the Degas Ballerinas made me think of Jade.
By the time we finished at the Guggenheim it was already 14:00 PM and both of us were famished, I mean starving, I couldn't even think of what kind of food I wanted to eat.
We walked down towards Lexington Avenue, walked down the parallel street if I remember correctly and had an excellent lunch at a small Indian restaurant, the cups were made of copper and the waiter kept on refilling our water whenever it went under the rim, it was nice in a classicist sort of way? *shrug*
Since it was lunch time we had a 50% discount, which was a pleasant surprise (according toorcabee, lunch is from about noon to 16:00 PM, I think).
We caught the bus to Lincoln Centre, which drove through Central Park, which was gorgeous, and I hope to be able to actually take a walk in it and maybe go to the Zoo there when the weather wasn't so freezing (I'm glad I wore knee socks!).Before before we actually went to Lincoln Centre; we went to the hugest Barnes and Noble ever! I didn't buy anything but the magnitude of that store was quite overwhelming.
All of New York is huge, I must have looked like an idiot looking up at the buildings all the time, trying to absorb the hugeness of the buildings.
At Lincoln Centre, she showed me the Metropolitan Opera House, where from the outside you can see two enormous Chagall drapes, we walked into the lobby, where the whole thing was designed in Art Deco, which was very popular where the Met was built. She showed the Library of Performing Art and where Julliard was situated... I suddenly had "Fame" running in my head.
We then caught the Subway, which is really ugly and smelly by the way. I normally love these underground cities, the Tube in London is very special and has a very distinct, IMO, subculture, the Subway is just ugly and smells like pee, unless you're Chinatown, then it smells like fish. to Times Square.
It's one of those places I can honestly say been there, I don't need to go back. The gaudiness, the lights, oh my God it reminded me of the Gotham City in Batman and Robin... yes, it was that awful, although yesterday I was quite caught up in the atmosphere, but getting a scare from the sheer amount of people and being separated for a second from Lisa, we decided that Times Square had been seen and was now officially checked off my check list of Things To See in New York.
We then walked to Rockefeller Centre, which still had the Ice Rink in operation, unfortunately while we were there the ice was being resurfaced so there were no people doing the actual skating. The building is incredibly tall and I almost fell over backwards just trying to look all the way up.
I had a flash back to Independence Day (the movie) of when the aliens destroy the Chrysler building, but suddenly the space ship was over Rockefeller Centre... I know terrible images, but it came from the hugeness of all the buildings.
We then walked to a cafe to sit and we became aware that we were tired... more than tired... exhausted. We had some coffee and cake and took the subway back to Chinatown where the 20:00 PM bus was standing by to return to Philly.
I fell asleep on the bus and arrived at the Train Station just before the last train to Mt. Airy arrived.
Good day.
Great day.
NYC rocks!
Philly is boring...
To those who live there... I am so effing jealous!!
So what happened on the glorious day of my visit to NYC?
Philadelphia is about two hours away from NYC, so I caught the 09:00 AM bus from Philly's Chinatown, which, unlike the some of the rumors going around about the China-bus, did not veer off the road and kill me, nor did it attempt to kill any of the other drivers on the road.
Surprisingly it took only an hour and a half to get to Manhattan.
One thing I never expected was to get off the bus in Manhattan and have it smell like the peer, yes the fish smell is permanent feature of Chinatown's main street.
Met up with
orcabee, who navigated the subway system superbly, Lisa, had I not been with you I'd have wasted a ton on time just trying to get to where I thought I wanted to go, so again, thank you.The first thing we went to was the Guggenheim, which the building alone could have been a museum piece, it's built like a spiral and the whole path was lined with modern art sculptures made by an Artist named David Smith, he made beautiful sculptures made of forged metal and wood, the combination between those materials made a very dramatic affect; my favourite piece is called "Egyptian Landscape".
Mummy would have enjoyed the collections and exhibitions, I kept thinking about her when I was looking at the Kandinsky exhibition, which as usual, was colourful and magnificent.
I personally enjoyed the Impressionists the best, they had beautiful paintings of Monet and looking the Degas Ballerinas made me think of Jade.
By the time we finished at the Guggenheim it was already 14:00 PM and both of us were famished, I mean starving, I couldn't even think of what kind of food I wanted to eat.
We walked down towards Lexington Avenue, walked down the parallel street if I remember correctly and had an excellent lunch at a small Indian restaurant, the cups were made of copper and the waiter kept on refilling our water whenever it went under the rim, it was nice in a classicist sort of way? *shrug*
Since it was lunch time we had a 50% discount, which was a pleasant surprise (according to
orcabee, lunch is from about noon to 16:00 PM, I think).We caught the bus to Lincoln Centre, which drove through Central Park, which was gorgeous, and I hope to be able to actually take a walk in it and maybe go to the Zoo there when the weather wasn't so freezing (I'm glad I wore knee socks!).Before before we actually went to Lincoln Centre; we went to the hugest Barnes and Noble ever! I didn't buy anything but the magnitude of that store was quite overwhelming.
All of New York is huge, I must have looked like an idiot looking up at the buildings all the time, trying to absorb the hugeness of the buildings.
At Lincoln Centre, she showed me the Metropolitan Opera House, where from the outside you can see two enormous Chagall drapes, we walked into the lobby, where the whole thing was designed in Art Deco, which was very popular where the Met was built. She showed the Library of Performing Art and where Julliard was situated... I suddenly had "Fame" running in my head.
We then caught the Subway, which is really ugly and smelly by the way. I normally love these underground cities, the Tube in London is very special and has a very distinct, IMO, subculture, the Subway is just ugly and smells like pee, unless you're Chinatown, then it smells like fish. to Times Square.
It's one of those places I can honestly say been there, I don't need to go back. The gaudiness, the lights, oh my God it reminded me of the Gotham City in Batman and Robin... yes, it was that awful, although yesterday I was quite caught up in the atmosphere, but getting a scare from the sheer amount of people and being separated for a second from Lisa, we decided that Times Square had been seen and was now officially checked off my check list of Things To See in New York.
We then walked to Rockefeller Centre, which still had the Ice Rink in operation, unfortunately while we were there the ice was being resurfaced so there were no people doing the actual skating. The building is incredibly tall and I almost fell over backwards just trying to look all the way up.
I had a flash back to Independence Day (the movie) of when the aliens destroy the Chrysler building, but suddenly the space ship was over Rockefeller Centre... I know terrible images, but it came from the hugeness of all the buildings.
We then walked to a cafe to sit and we became aware that we were tired... more than tired... exhausted. We had some coffee and cake and took the subway back to Chinatown where the 20:00 PM bus was standing by to return to Philly.
I fell asleep on the bus and arrived at the Train Station just before the last train to Mt. Airy arrived.
Good day.
Great day.
NYC rocks!
Philly is boring...
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