Tag: “Empire State Building”

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A night on the town – that’s what we had – and not just any town, this is New York!

We went off Broadway, literally, to 340 West 50th Street – the New World Stages, to see “Peter and the Starcatcher”  (at least most of us did.) It’s worth all those Tony awards (5). We saw a few other marquees on the way there. Then after the play was over, we hopped a subway back down to the Empire State Building (at least most of us did) for a night view of The City before hopping another subway back to 340 West 40th Street and the Staybridge Suites.

Getting to bed at 2am was brutal, but it did make us believe that New York never sleeps. There were still people going places – and still places to go – when we quit.

 

 

New York

We went to New York. Landed at LaGuardia Airport on a Tuesday – took off from LaGuardia the next Saturday. At LaGuardia, we found a kiosk for MTA weekly passes that allowed us to ride any bus or subway train that we wanted during our stay. We took the M60 bus to the the Astoria Boulevard stop and then caught the N-line to Times Square. From there, we dumb-lucked ourselves out of that maze and onto 40th Street and wheeled our luggage from Broadway toward 9th Avenue where we had reserved a room at StayBridge Times Square. We bought a couple pizzas on the corner of 40th and 8th, sodas for the kids and wine for the grownups and collapsed into sleep.

Here are some pictures of Wednesday as we walked to Times Square and then to Grand Central Station and the Chrysler Building. Then we took the subway a couple stops south (down) to 14th Street and walked a couple blocks west to Highline Park. We walked North(up) end to end on the Highline, ending up at around 30th Street and walked to the Empire State Building. Cool!

At the Empire State Building we bought the New York City Pass which saved us some money on admission to some of the things we wanted to see. One of the things that we had not expected was a second admission to the Empire State Building after 10pm if we used it the same calendar day.