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THIRTY DAYS UNTIL I"M IN NEW YORK CITY! One month exactly. I cannot wait. Everything is essentially done. We bought the plane tickets and booked the hotel a few months ago. The itinerary (posted below) is loosely finalized. I guess the only things I have left to do is pack (but not until the weekend before) and buy tickets for different places, if they can be bought in advance. And save up more money, of course.
Day 1: Monday, May 18th
7 AM Wake up, shower, breakfast
8 AM Leave for Detroit Metro Airport (DTW)
9 AM Arrive at Detroit Metro Airport (DTW)
· Check-in, security check
· $15 for checked baggage
12:15 PM Leave from Detroit Metro Airport (DTW)
2:10 PM Arrive at LaGuardia Airport at 2:10 PM
v Shuttle/bus to hotel (~$16)
3 PM Check-in at Hotel 31 (120 E. 31st St., New York, NY 10016)
~Late lunch (Havana-Chelsea Luncheonette?)
v Metro Card (7 Day Unlimited) -- $24
Explore the “neighborhood” around our hotel (anything below 42nd Street)
· Empire State Building (350 5th Avenue)
· Chrysler Building (?? Address)
· NY Public Library (5th Avenue and 42nd Street)
· Madison Square Garden (7th Avenue and 32nd Street)
· Macy’s (151 West 34th Street)
· Grand Central Station (15 Vanderbilt Avenue)
~8 PM/8:30 PM Times Square in the evening
~Late dinner
Day 2: Tuesday, May 19th
8 AM Wake up, get ready
9 AM Breakfast
10AM - 1 PM Circle Line Tour: 3-Hour Full Cruise -- Pier 83 at 42nd Street [Chelsea/Garment District]
1 PM Lunch @ Famous Joe’s Pizza -- 7 Carmine Street #7 (the one feat. In Spiderman 2)
· Washington Square Park
· Friends apartment building (Grove and Bedford)
· Ross’ and UNG’s apartment building (12-21 Grove)
· Huxtable House from the Cosby Show (10 Leroy Street)
Thrifting? Good thrift stores in the Greenwich Village area?
Dinner @ ??
Top of the Rock Observation Deck (later in the evening)
Day 3: Wednesday, May 20th
TKTS booth - Student Rush tickets for “Chicago” ($25)
10 AM Lower Manhattan
· Brooklyn Bridge
· Charging Bull near Wall Street
· Ground Zero
12 PM Chinatown
· Shopping in Chinatown
· Lunch (Sun Hop Shing Tea House?)
3 PM Midtown
· Times Square
· Toys R Us
· FAO Schwarz
· Radio City Music Hall
· 5th Avenue
Ø Saks Fifth Avenue (611 5th Avenue)
Ø The Plaza (678 5th Avenue)
Ø Tiffany’s (727 5th Avenue)
Ø FAO Schwarz (767 5th Avenue)
Dinner
8 PM “Chicago” on Broadway
Day 4: Thursday, May 21st
10 AM Zabar’s breakfast (bagel with lox, ala the Baby-sitter’s Club)
11 AM Central Park
· Strawberry Fields & The Dakota
· Delacorte Theatre and Clock
· Belvedere Castle
· Bethesda Fountain
· “Balto” Statue
· “Alice in Wonderland” Statue
Lunch
· Hot dog vendor
· Gray’s Papaya? (from Fools Rush In)
Julliard
Lincoln Center
Metropolitan Opera House
Avery Fisher Hall
?11 AM - 2 PM On-Location Tours: New York TV and Movies?
· $37.99/person
Day 5: Friday, May 22nd
Museum of Natural History
· 10 AM - 5:45 PM
· $11 student “suggested donation”
Metropolitan Museum of Art
· $10 student “suggested donation”
· Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
· The Cloisters?
Day 6: Saturday, May 23rd
8 AM Wake up, shower, breakfast, pack up
9 AM Check out of hotel, leave for airport
10 AM Arrive at LGA
· Check in
· Security check
12 PM Check out Hotel 31
1:45 PM Leave from LaGuardia Airport (LGA)
3:50 PM Arrive at Detroit Metro Airport (DTW)
In other news, SUCK IT, COLUMBUS :D