14 - 29 February 2016
New York was the first stop of my big USA trip of 2016.
It was a place I'd visited before but it's magic lingered in my mind and drew me right back to it. It was always a dream of mine to know New York. Know it and feel comfortable in the big city. I spent 2 weeks there exploring and learning and feeling like I knew it better than anywhere else I'd been, besides Dublin. Dream come true.
"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless." - Simone Beauvoir
Things we saw and did: (It's a pretty long list)
- 5th Avenue
- Times Square
- NYC Public Library
- Park Avenue & Madison Avenue
- Snow in Central Park
- Barcade Brooklyn
- Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge
- One World Trade Centre
- 9/11 Memorial
- Pier A
- Battery Park
- Washington Square Park
- The Flatiron building
- Barcade Manhattan
- Hello Bklyn bar
- Popeye's fried chicken
- Columbia University
- Jackie Onassis Reservoir in Central Park
- Bow Bridge in Central Park
- Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park
- Strawberry Fields/Imagine in Central Park
- The Dakota Hotel
- The Loeb Boathouse in Central Park
- Belvedere Castle in Central Park
- The Plaza Hotel
- Rockefeller Center
- NBC Store
- Radio City Music Hall
- A new tattoo in The Village Tattoo
- NY Islanders VS Washington Capitals @ Barclays Centre
- West Village
- Carrie Bradshaw's house on Perry Street
- The Strand Bookstore (Where we saw Paul Giamatti in the Horror section)
- New York University
- Nutella Bar @ Eataly NYC
- Walked the High Line
- U.S Post Office
- Madison Square Garden
- Grand Central Terminal
- Midtown Comics
- Ustav Indian Restaurant
- Williamsburg
- Brooklyn Brewery
- Brooklyn Bowl
- Staten Island Ferry
- The Statue of Liberty
- Staten Island
- NY Nets VS Charlotte Hornets @ Barclays Centre
- Chinatown
- Manhattan Bridge Arch
- Little Italy
- Café Napoli
- Mulberry Street
- Nolita
- Economy Candy
- Cooper's Craft Kitchen
- East Village
- Experimental Comedy Club
- Dinosaur BBQ
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Queens
- New World Mall
- Empire State Building
- Chrysler Building
- Discovery Times Square - The Costumes of Star Wars
- Sky Room bar
- The Pony Bar in Hell's Kitchen
- Bushwick Graffiti
- Roberta's Pizza
- Museum of Modern Art
- The Cave & the Creek Comedy show
- Coney Island boardwalk
- The Penrose on the Upper East Side
- Oscar's Viewing Party
The Statue of Liberty (from the Staten Island Ferry)
The Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink
Brooklyn Bridge and NY skyline
NYC Public Library
Central Park
The Chrysler Building
9/11 Memorial
Barcade in Brooklyn & Manhattan
View from the Sky Room bar
Inside The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Times Square
Brooklyn Brewery
Coney Island
