{"id":12883,"date":"2023-09-02T08:36:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=12883"},"modified":"2023-09-02T08:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T12:36:44","slug":"a-day-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/02\/a-day-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"A day in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Marlene and I spent Friday in New York City. We experienced the Staten Island Ferry<\/a>, Trinity Church<\/a>, the 9-11 Memorial<\/a> (just the memorial – we didn’t go into the museum), Wall Street<\/a>, the South Street Seaport<\/a>, the Brooklyn Bridge<\/a> (which we walked over), the New York subway system, Times Square<\/a>, Central Park<\/a> (just a view) and Fifth Avenue<\/a>. Whew! We logged over 21,000 steps – probably over 10 miles on foot. Everything was novel to Marlene. The 9-11 Memorial was new to me (it was a hole in the ground when I last visited in 2002), as was the Staten Island Ferry and the walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. Even the things I had seen before were very different than I recalled, so it was all pretty new to me, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The choice of the Staten Island Ferry was not because it was the cheapest or fastest way to get into Manhattan from Newark – that probably would have been the PATH train to Penn Station. But I really wanted to experience the ferry. The idea that a 30-minute ferry ride on a $200 million vessel could be completely free just boggled my mind. It didn’t disappoint. The ferry was HUGE – a passenger capacity in excess of 5.000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The walk on the Brooklyn Bridge was also a surprise. I had no idea that so many people walked this bridge. It was crowded and the entire route – well over a mile – was lined with vendors. Some of the art in the subway was also a pleasant surprise as my memory of the MTA was dark, drab and dirty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All-in-all, a very good sightseeing day – our 4th in a row. A travel day will be a pleasant respite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The walk to Trinity Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trinity Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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9-11 Memorial and nearby scenes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wall Street and nearby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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South Street Seaport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Traversing the Brooklyn Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The bridge and the subway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Subway, Times Square and the New York Hilton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plaza Hotel and Fifth Avenue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leaving Manhattan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlene and I spent Friday in New York City. We experienced the Staten Island Ferry, Trinity Church, the 9-11 Memorial (just the memorial – we didn’t go into the museum), Wall Street, the South Street Seaport, the Brooklyn Bridge (which we walked over), the New York subway system, Times Square, Central Park (just a view) … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,37,10,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-nj","category-places-ny","category-ts9"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3lN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12917,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions\/12917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}