My Tour of New York

Ah!! Just been like 1 week I’m in New York. It was a delight watching the city from the plane just before I landed at JFK on 23rd Sept. Luckily for me, the air traffic was more and the plane made almost like 5 or 6 rounds around the airport before landing. I had a good bird view of the whole landscape at various altitudes. I was waiting to get to each of the streets I saw, the monuments that were so tiny.

Last week, my roomies and I decided to make the Saturday evening memorable by visiting some places in New York. We had our food quickly and left home by 2:30. We live at Vroom Street; its like 10 mins walk to the Journal Square Path Station.

Just Lucky enough to catch the train to the World Trade Centre. (This is no new place to me, coz my office is just the next building to the construction site). Quickly showed them the site and the monument and started to the Chambers Street to catch the Subway Train to get to Statue of Liberty.

That day, the 1 train was not running and hence the authority had arranged for some free shuttles to the place. Took the bus and made it to the riverside by 4 PM. From this distance, it just looks awesome. Took tickets to the ferry and hurried to catch the next ferry at 4:30. Ah!! Watte view!! Just when we were praising the buildings of NY and clicking some pics with the buildings background, soon we were nearing the Great Monument of US of A. The Statue of Liberty!

It was a great feeling to be there. Clicked the pics of the monument from every possible angle, enjoying the beauty of the island. The island is quite small. I guess like 20 acres on the whole. Walked around the island and got to the last ferry from the island which is at around 6:15 PM. On the way back in the ferry, enjoyed the sun set behind the great monument, it was just too good.

Got back to the banks of the river and plans changed all of a sudden? We wanted to experience the nightlife of NY. Bored of being at Jersey City and not being able to see the real beauty of NY. We decided to get to Times Square. Took the shuttle back to Chambers street and hurried to the subway train to get to 33rd street. Wanted to even see the Empire state building.

Its huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge believe me.. too much!! To make it more memorable, we went to a pizza hut nearby the Empire State Building and had some cheese pizzas (that was the only thing that was veg).

Walked all the way from 33rd street to the 42snd street, passing by the CompUSA and other famous stores. Had a gala of time at the Times Square and started back to the Subway train to get to Journal Square.

Took the Subway to get to 33rd street and then, the path train to go all the way from 33rd street, NY to Hoboken and then to Journal Square.(that’s how the train operates on weekends)

A lovely way to spend a weekend in NY. It was 10 PM by the time we got back home, and it was 2:30 AM in the morning by the time I finished uploading the pics from the 3 cameras and dozed off to a nice sleep that night to only get up at 9:30 in the morning.

You can find the pics at: http://picasaweb.google.com/srikanth.bhaskar/NewYorkTour