NJ-NY Trip Part 3 - NYC

Sunrise over NY City.   We stayed in Jersey City on the other side of the hudson river.   It was cheaper and had a view of the city.   A win - win.  






Our first full day we headed out to Liberty Park to catch the ferry to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. The crown tours were all ready sold out so we settled for the pedestal (besides we'd done the crown as teenagers).    She was spectacular, although smaller than I thought.

We continued on the ferry to the NY side which dropped us off at Battery Park.    From there we headed to ground zero.    The memorial construction is currently underway so the site itself lost any impact that it would have had initially.   We looked through the small temporary memorial, and visited Trinity Church.  Later during our visit we would stumble by firehouses in neighborhoods with memorials for those lost out of that house.    Those were hard.  

From there we took the subway up to times square square and headed to find Crumbs.  We found it, hehe.    I had to admit those were some seriously good cupcakes.    I mean these are really crazy cupcakes.  

On our way there was a huge commotion that turned out to be Jennifer Aniston shooting a movie.   Kyle captures this snapshot!

We then tracked down lunch at a place a coworker recommended.    Then we headed to the top of the rock.   What an amazing view of the city.    It was totally worth it.   

We tracked down the rockefeller center skating rink,  but it was being set up for something.   The tree was decorated by still covered by scaffolding and awaiting the big reveal.   By now we were getting pretty tired and still needed to figure out the transportation back to the hotel.    So we started heading the right direction, and stopped in greenwich village.   We stopped in at a pretty cool bar so Kyle could enjoy a few drinks.    We then looked around the neighborhood a bit and headed back to the hotel.

The view at night from our hotel.

The next day we got up and headed to central park.   We went by the dakota hotel where lennon was shot and then had a wonderful lunch.     We then headed back to the hotel, picked up the car and headed to the brooklyn bridge.    We walked about halfway across (it was brutally windy, half seemed more than far enough).    Then it was off to the airport to catch our flight home.