Day 2 in NYC
Woohoo! I'm in NYC! I wake up at 8am and while dressing up and taking a shower I turn on the tv to check that USA number ones this week are Black Eye Peas, Gwen Stefani with "Cool" and Natasha Beninfield (or whatever it's spelled). Then I wake up my sister and got ready to visit the city.
We start walking from Times Square to The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. It's very hot there in summer but what the hell, we're in NYC! There's still lots and lots of people in the streets, noise, lights and color everywhere you look at. The Newsweek headquarters, the NBC studios and a long queue of people waiting for the David Letterman show. We keep walking following the indications of our NY guide and map, yeah we're the typical tourist :D . We get to visit the Metropolitan Opera House that we've seen in so many movies, there's The Julliard School, the Walter Reade Theater, Clark Studio Theater,... We take some photos and keep walking bordering Central Park till the Planetarium and the Museum of Natural History, that's Ross Geller working place, hahaha! There're Starbucks Coffee places all around. I go to the post office to buy stamps for my several postcards. Then we turn on the right and right there in that street, they're shooting some movie, ad or show, don't know . There're three big lorries and trailers, the catering staff, lights and cameras, uh! I want to find out what they're doing but I feel too shy to ask at that moment. Damn!
Walking and walking we arrive to Columbia University *yay*, here's where has been studying Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman or Anna Paquinn. That's not in the travel guide, it's just that I'm kind of a freak :P . We go around all campus, buildings and even the cafeteria. I see a statue of Hamilton and the freak in me start yelling *Young Americans everywhere!* I took a picture, of course :D
Lunch time, we're in Harlem and after walking a little more we go to a Pizza restaurant to eat. Most of the people living there are black and latin-american so no need to speak in English yet. Dessert time, we go for a donut to a Dunkin Donuts place and came back walking to the Hotel going round the other side of Central Park again. We pass the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum. Once in the Hotel we change clothes and get ready for our next visit: New York at night.
They take us to the lower Manhattan to pick up the ferry to Staten Island. It's free and last about 20 minutes. Wow, it's dusk time and the view from the ferry is just amazing. The ferry we use to go back is the one used in the movie "Working Girl" *wow*. It's growing dark and all the buildings are illuminated, actually the whole city. It's exactly like the views shown in films, astonishing view. There's no way to describe it, you've gotta see it on your own! A man starts talking to me, "where are you from?, are you enjoying NYC?, what you like it better?" okay we're gotta go with the rest of our group.
Next stop the Empire State Building. No need to say how many movies has been shot here ;) . We already have our tickets so after 20 minutes of queue it's our time to pick the lift till 86th floor. Impressive scene, the whole city shining, you can see every building, street, statue, bridge, Hudson river,... WOW! Time to go back, it's more than midnight and we still gotta go to the Hotel and get some sleep.
We start walking from Times Square to The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. It's very hot there in summer but what the hell, we're in NYC! There's still lots and lots of people in the streets, noise, lights and color everywhere you look at. The Newsweek headquarters, the NBC studios and a long queue of people waiting for the David Letterman show. We keep walking following the indications of our NY guide and map, yeah we're the typical tourist :D . We get to visit the Metropolitan Opera House that we've seen in so many movies, there's The Julliard School, the Walter Reade Theater, Clark Studio Theater,... We take some photos and keep walking bordering Central Park till the Planetarium and the Museum of Natural History, that's Ross Geller working place, hahaha! There're Starbucks Coffee places all around. I go to the post office to buy stamps for my several postcards. Then we turn on the right and right there in that street, they're shooting some movie, ad or show, don't know . There're three big lorries and trailers, the catering staff, lights and cameras, uh! I want to find out what they're doing but I feel too shy to ask at that moment. Damn!
Walking and walking we arrive to Columbia University *yay*, here's where has been studying Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman or Anna Paquinn. That's not in the travel guide, it's just that I'm kind of a freak :P . We go around all campus, buildings and even the cafeteria. I see a statue of Hamilton and the freak in me start yelling *Young Americans everywhere!* I took a picture, of course :D
Lunch time, we're in Harlem and after walking a little more we go to a Pizza restaurant to eat. Most of the people living there are black and latin-american so no need to speak in English yet. Dessert time, we go for a donut to a Dunkin Donuts place and came back walking to the Hotel going round the other side of Central Park again. We pass the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum. Once in the Hotel we change clothes and get ready for our next visit: New York at night.
They take us to the lower Manhattan to pick up the ferry to Staten Island. It's free and last about 20 minutes. Wow, it's dusk time and the view from the ferry is just amazing. The ferry we use to go back is the one used in the movie "Working Girl" *wow*. It's growing dark and all the buildings are illuminated, actually the whole city. It's exactly like the views shown in films, astonishing view. There's no way to describe it, you've gotta see it on your own! A man starts talking to me, "where are you from?, are you enjoying NYC?, what you like it better?" okay we're gotta go with the rest of our group.
Next stop the Empire State Building. No need to say how many movies has been shot here ;) . We already have our tickets so after 20 minutes of queue it's our time to pick the lift till 86th floor. Impressive scene, the whole city shining, you can see every building, street, statue, bridge, Hudson river,... WOW! Time to go back, it's more than midnight and we still gotta go to the Hotel and get some sleep.