No need to take the cruise, we motored right past in our very own boat.
It's a very busy waterway - avoiding ferries and freighters and dealing with the wake they leave behind...but Old Rosie and Captain Ben handled it well.
These sailboats manage to race amid all the traffic.
In New York City-
Our first visit was before Irene on August 25th. We took the train from Tarrytown and headed for Times Square.
This group gave a little impromptu performance from the musical Hair.
Lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe,
a tour of Madame Tussaud`s Wax Museum,
After Irene, we had moved the boat and were moored in Great Kills Harbour, Staten Island.
So getting to Manhatten Island took a bit more time- first, a dinghy ride to the club house, then a 15 minute walk to the train station, a 30 minute ride on the Staten Island Railroad, then a 30 minute ride on the Staten Island Ferry, and finally a subway ride to wherever we wanted to go on the Island.
The total cost? $4.50 one way...the ferry was free!
Once in NYC we enjoyed the Hop On- Hop Off Doubledecker Bus Tours. We were given lots of interesting historical details, architectural info and facts of all kinds while seeing many sections of Manhatten.
We "hopped off" at the site of the World Trade Centre and saw new construction underway.
St. Paul's Chapel is known as the "little chapel that stood" while the Twin Towers collapsed right across the street. It became a place of refuge for the rescue workers at the time, and continues to be a place of remembrance ten years later.
On the second day we met our niece for lunch; she is a college student in NYC.
Our narrators on the second day were and informative and entertaining- one of them sang New York, New York at the top of his lungs as we climbed up to the upper level of the bus. We were told that now we probably know more about NYC than the average New Yorker.
My brother and sister-in-law told me that riding in a horse drawn carriage through Central Park was one of their favourite activities, but unfortunately, we were not able to do it....maybe next time...
We saw the Dakota building where John Lennon was shot and where Yoko Ono still lives...on the whole third floor.
These water towers are on most buildings and are used when the power goes out and the municipal water fails.
We hopped off again at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...amazing!
I could have spent a week just visiting museums!
After all that walking, we relaxed on the "back porch"....
'Bye for now...from our mooring ball at the Richmond County Yacht Club, Great Kills Harbour, Staten Is.
No comments:
Post a Comment