Take a bite, or a lot of bites, the Big Apple. So we took the New Jersey Transit in New York. The modern bus goes to Port Authority 42nd Street. The Port Authority is one of many in land transport hubs NYC. Most of your bus company can exist and it is to connect with almost every subway tunnel by a walk to Times Square. The hubs are Grand Central Railway Station, connected to the shuttle subway to Times Square and Penn Station, a trip to two stops on the subway. The subway system in Manhattan is the fast and efficient transport on the island, each with stops in five fifty-six blocks. The system can be used to be called confusing with many independent lines by different letters: IRT, BMT, etc. Today, the various routes by colors and numbers or letters referred to. A map showing all streets and points of contact. The current system underground is very easy to follow. It is also safe, as opposed to perceptions. Here are some little known facts about the system. The tunnels are at least eight floors below ground. There are miles of mazes in the tubes themselves, where the homeless have made their homes. On one of the lines from Manhattan to Queens, tracks literally rolling on the water under the East River. Even the engineers do not know how to fix the problem. The money raised will be sent to the switches by a special train that runs through the system. The trains are very long, at least ten cars in length. Most cars have benches along the sides, so that most of the car for a place to stand. There are three exits on each side of the car, a quick entry and exit. The runners will be as a carrier, because they hang from the ceiling beams while driving. The new cars for the next stop on the sign in the car. Some even have a map of the route and current position of the car lights on the card.
The New York City comprises five counties: Kings (Manhattan), Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Richmond (Staten Iceland). All districts are connected by subway or bus or train, is served with the exception of Staten Iceland through the famous ferry. Learn more about the different areas where we visit them.
I went into the desert at Cafe Lalo, where part of the movie “You Got @ il” was filmed. Then we went to Broadway Market in Fairfield, a few blocks south of the famous Zabar, a grocery store and kitchen appliances (but so much more: an experiment). I was surprised by the variety of fresh produce and meat, fish and poultry, and the relatively low prices. The aisles are very narrow in the store, due to the fact that space is at a premium in Manhattan. Buy a metro pass Unlimited, $ 21.00 for the week, and hop on a bus bound for Broadway Downtown. Downtown means to the battery, the southern tip of Manhattan.
Uptown is located in the north and the cross-town is the East River (East Side), or the Hudson River (West Side). What a wonderful way to see and save the city. We walked through Columbus Circle, at the edge of Central Park, Juilliard, Lincoln Center, the Theater District, Times Square and of course luxurious animated. The bus turned east on 42nd Street and the Public Library of Grand Central Station, and ended on the United Nations building.
As it has brought us to this fate, we visited the famous buildings of the United Nations. Automation of Senegal in West Africa, was our guide was very knowledgeable about the way the United Nations. This is not the paper tiger that some people claim it is. This is a real forum for all nations of the world to discuss mutual concerns: armed conflicts, landmines, disease, hunger, trade, etc. Perhaps the real tigers are the ones who want to control the other nations, or huge profits through the promotion of these to experience problems. Some of the rooms were used, namely the Security Council and the Council for Economic and Social Justice. They were at the meeting.
The Downtown Lexington Avenue bus goes on. On the way we went to Chinatown, the Bowery, Little Italy, Greenwich Village Rock and ended at City Hall. There are so many different types of restaurants in New York you are on another every night and not eat again for your entire life.
Today we rode the subway. First we went uptown to the northern tip of Manhattan in Fort Tryon Park and the. This is the highest point in Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson and East River. At the farthest point north of the park is the Cloisters Museum. This unique museum is to be saved from five medieval cloisters before the demolition of buildings in Europe with bands and numerous artifacts. Some of the statues was used as a scarecrow by the farmers, while others were found in junk heaps. A special room is the Tapestry Unicorn, to talk about the hunt, death and resurrection of the unicorn, a symbol for Jesus Christ. The tapestries are more than a hundred different kinds of plants woven into medieval stories. They are simply breathtaking, not only for their beauty, but also the texture of the fabric.
We went back to Times Square, and then jumped on the road No. 7 subway to Queens and Flushing Meadows, the site of the World Expo 1963 with its massive sculpture in the world. On both sides of the station’s Shea Stadium, home of the Mets baseball team and NY Arthur Ashe Stadium, City Open Tennis Tournament in the United States. Back on the train to Times Square and Coney Road, west Iceland at the tip of Brooklyn. We ate a Nathan Famous Hot Dog World. It can not compare to a dog in Chicago Vienna Hot. The amusement park was closed only on weekends when the school opened in the session. The cyclone, its famous roller coaster was closed. Thank you to our stomachs growl for this lack of timing. It is open daily from 12:00 to 04.00 clock. The mountain does not look like much. But appearances are deceiving. This baby shakes, rattles and rolls. I wanted to see if there was still me chills and I rode the last time in 1963. But it must be for a later day, which never came.
This day was to visit the Grande Dame of New York, the Statue of Liberty reserved. Take the train to Battery Park at the lower tip of Manhattan, we bought our tickets at Castle Clinton, once a guardian fortress, the port, and a concert hall (the U.S. debut of Jenny Lind), then a port entry immigration, and Now is the ticket to Notre Dame. Circular design, it is normal that you must go through access to a fortress, to greet the great lady. On the boat ride of 15 minutes on Governors Iceland, it is easy for the shock and deep feelings of overwhelming joy for millions of immigrants who first introduced her veil present throughout the Verrazano Narrows, Port of New York. The statue, a gift from France in a century, stands on a different field, one of five guarding the harbor. The base rises eleven stories and the lady herself is 151 meters. Also the security is very tight and not visitors are not allowed in the museum, on the cap or crown. But just to be in his presence in the Hebrew word “Dayenu” (it would have been sufficient).
Boarding on the boat again, we went to Ellis Iceland, built in 1892 on the great flood of immigrants address. So many of our ancestors came from before that date, so you could through Castle Clinton, AKA, gardens or other arrived Port of Entry. Charlie Walker Ranger was our leader. As soon as a drill instructor, he has a voice to match. He missed his calling on stage, because the tour that was more of a lively presentation, with a cast of characters in a boring presentation of facts and figures. He loves his work. The experience of Iceland Ellis has been reserved for the passengers in steerage class. Remember the movie “Titanic” steerage was the lowest of the low. Passengers in first and second class were processed aboard the ship. After landing, the ship sailed to Ellis Iceland. He ran the gauntlet between decks eye inspectors. I recalled images of the Holocaust, where the prisoners were “selected”. If you are funny, protests, walk or looked fragile, clothing was marked with chalk for the inspection and further processing. Many of these people fleeing oppressive regimes and were afraid of men in uniform. Here in America, they were almost as many men offered. Families were separated, while the transformation took place, men on one side and women and children on the other side of the room. The good news is that the process usually took less than 5 hours and only 2% more than 12 million immigrants are deported to their homeland. Those who remained took the train west to the New Jersey and remained in New York, the digging of the subway or other back breaking job.
Back in Battery Park, we went to Broadway. At the entrance to the sculpture of the Globe of Peace, which was in the World Trade Center Plaza. Miraculously, he survived the tragedy and is now kept vigil at the foot of Broadway by an eternal flame. Although damaged, the world is still for peace in this world.
Through the financial district, it looks like a war zone, barricades and armed police patrol the area. Our goal was Federal Hall in the corner of Nassau, in the broadest sense, and wall street. Federal Hall was the first capital of the United States. Was met here in Washington as president and Congress are sworn. The building has been demolished a long time. In its place is a neoclassical building designed the Parthenon-like exterior and interior of the Pantheon-like. If a customs station and then as a guardian of the U.S. gold reserves during the Civil War, there is now a museum, the memory of our first capital. One of their most prized possessions is the Bible that Washington (wanted to use the one that President Bartlett on “The West Wing”) used for his inauguration.
From the famed Wall Street, where ever, how something like this (written 5 years old) raped, we went to Trinity Church, where many lose their life savings to pray in the street. Built in 1696, the church has survived many crashes Wall Street. Notable people buried there are Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton.
Many people told us to visit the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Fortunately, we followed their advice. Started in 1892, this Gothic church more than two football fields in length. The cathedral is still unfinished, but it is always spectacular. Each set of windows has a different theme: poetry, medicine, law, etc. Standing on the inside is a huge humbling experience not to be missed. Around the altar, the side chapels, which is reserved for local artists to exhibit their work. At that time the students of the Cathedral have exhibited their works.