Visit New York City rev Nov14/2004

I visited New York City with my family form 3rd May to 7th May in 2004.We stayed 4 nights in Manhattan.
It was second visit for me, because I had visited New York City with my wife in 1995

written by Taro (taro_sea@yahoo.com)

INDEX
1. PLANNING
2. FIRST DAY
3. DAY 2
4. DAY 3
5. DAY 4
6. DAY 5
7. AFTER TRIP

1. PLANNING

At first,we made a plan to visit new york city.
We had been to New York City(NYC) once. So it's not too hard to consider our visiting plan.
The most important point was "Our trip was short as 4 nights stay in Manhattan".

(1)Schedule
There is national holidays from end of Apr. to first of May in Japan.
We planed to visit NYC in these holidays.

FIRST DAY : May 3rd/2004
-transfer to NYC
-beacon hotel -lincoln center -ZABER'S

DAY 2 : 4th May/2004
-NY waterway -Yoshinoya -Metropolitan museum of art

DAY3 : 5th May/2004
-Ground Zero -Century21 -American Museum of Natural history

DAY4 : 6th May/2004
-Central Park -South Street Sea Port -Times square -Toysrus

DAY5 : 7th May/2004
-transfer to Japan

(2)Hotel

There a lot of hotels in Manhattan.
We would like to stay a hotel having rooms with kitchen.
I wonder which area to stay in Manhattan.
I checked web site and guide book to read comment of other tourist.
Then I decided to reserve HOTEL BEACON on Broadway at 75th Street.
The room rate was $225 for spring special.

2. FIRST DAY : May 3rd/2004
-transfer to New York

The flight was good. But my daughters was feeling bad with long time flight.
We enjoy "una-don" in the air plane.


ANA flight to JFK was arrived almost on time(10:30am)
Immigration procedure took about 20-30 minutes.
Last time we visited NYC, It took 1 hour.
So there is "KAIZEN" of immigration procedure.
We use taxi for the transportation from JFK airport to Manhattan.
The shuttle bus fee for one person is cheaper than taxi.
In case of 4 person, taxi is reasonable.
We checked in the BEACON HOTEL 12am.
The hotel located Broadway 75th st.
After a short rest, we went to walking and shopping near the hotel.
It's was light rain in NY.
Most of Japanese use umbrella when it is light rain,
but foreign people do not use.
My daughter was wondering why NYC people don't use umbrella.

-lincoln center-
At first, we was walking down the Broadway to 61st st.
There was a lot of CD of opera in the shop at lincoln center.
My wife bought some CDs.

Then we went up to 81st along Broadway.
Most of the people in NYC across the inter section under the red light.
My daughter was very interested in the situation.
Because they learned "STOP under th red light" in the school frequently.
Of course I could not explain well.

On the way to ZABER'S, we bought metro cards.
It's convenient that we can use credit card to buy these.
I wanted 4 metro cards.
And I was be able to buy first and second cards.
Then I bought 3rd one. But the machine didn't accept my credit card.
I'm was very worried that.
If I couldn't use my credit card, this travel will be tough.
Anyway I bought 3rd and 4th metro cards by cash.

-ZABER'S
ZABER'S is famous deli for Japanese tourist.
Last time we stayed at the apartment type hotel located Amsterdam st.
And we often went shopping for our meal to ZABER'S.
We bought food for today's supper and tomorrow's breakfast.
Before payment I was a little bit nervous if my credit card will be OK or not.
Then the result was OK.

-H&H
H&H offers simple and delicious beagles.
The beagle have glutinous dough.

-fairway
Fairway is the nearest deli from the hotel BEACON.

We ate light supper in the hotel room.

3. DAY 2 : 4th May/2004
-NY waterway

It was sunny day. So the curse is good for sightseeing.
We chose 90 mins cruise of NY waterway.


-Yoshinoya

We can't eat Yoshinoya's beef bowl in Japan due to BCE matter.
I would like to try to eat beef bowl in New York.
It's taste smiler Japanese one.

-Metropolitan museum of art

The MET require the fee only adult, it is good for family visitors.
We had a short break at Temple of Dendur.


After seeing, we were sitting on the stairs in front of the MET.
There was several fire engine running fast with fire siren.
When we return the hotel, we knew the heli of WNBC-TV had crushed in Brooklyn.

-Monsoon

After sightseeing, we ate supper at the Monsoon.
Monsoon is the Vietnam restaurant located at Amsterdam st.
We can order the dishes easily because their menu was available Japanese.
It served us delicious nems[rouleau de printemps].
Especially wrapping for nems was not too fats.
This picture is delectable desserts on wrapping.
The wrapping was same with nems' one.

4. DAY 3 : 5th May/2004

-Ground Zero
We went to Rector St station by subway.
Then we reached Ground Zero before 9AM
A lot of people were hurry for their office and few people was standing around Ground Zero.

-Century21
Last time we visited Century 21. we felt the price level was lower than Japanese store.
But recently the price level is getting reasonable especially cloths.
So I didn't have big surprise about the price level.
After shopping we returned the hotel room and went out for lunch and AMNH.

-McDonald's
We took lunch at McDonald's located near 81st st on Broadway.
The taste of hamburger was similar to Japanese

-American Museum of Natural history
It's takes about 15 minutes to AMNH from McDonald's on Broadway.
Rose Center for earth and space opened a few years ago.
So I would like to see that exhibition.
The exhibition was interested for me history of space and the scale of material

In front of a fossil of Naumann's elephant

-Good enough to eat

We went "Good enough to eat" for supper.
We enjoyed American food.
The taste of hamburger is good for me but I like Vietnam food better.

That night we drunk Samuel Adams.
Actually I didn't know Samuel Adams.
The beer was very smooth and fruity.

5. DAY4 : 6th May/2004

It was sunny day so we went walking in the Central Park.
In Tokyo there is several park but the scale is different.
And there is a lot of squirrels in the Central Park.
-Central Park


Then we went south street sea port for shopping.

-South Street Sea Port
When we were sitting the deck in the sea port, there was a NY waterway's ship for sight seeing on the east river.
The was the same ship we ride on the day before yesterday.
I felt that we were watched by ourself the day before yesterday.



-Times square


-Toysrus

There was a Ferris wheel in the store.
It is very famous so it need waiting to get the Ferris wheel on weekend.
But we visited weekday and we didn't wait.


-food emporium
The last night we decided to eat supper in the hotel room
because our daughters were tired.

6. DAY5 : 7th May/2004
-transfer to Japan

The return flight was about 11AM. So we didn't do sightseeing last day.
We took breakfast at the cafe of BEACON hotel.
And checkout, we need to pay tax more than 15%.

In front of the hotel.


SOUVENIRS for ourself

7. AFTER TRIP

We bought three posters in NYC and bring them back to home.
We went to do-it-yourself store to search panels for four posters.
And we knew that it's necessary to order a panel for the poster of world map.
Because the poster of world map was too big so that it wasn't fit ready-made panel.

We order special sized panel for the poster of world map.


Antique World Map
This poster price was $8 with special sale at AMNH but it need expensive special panel.


Correlated History of Earth


Spring in Central Park; Adolf Dehn


D'EPINAL Lithograph

Beer
2004/6/19
My wife found some Samuel Adams beers at a grocery store in Japan.
We bought two bottles;LIGHT and CHERRY.
Both types was good taste. Especially Cherry was very fruity and suite like a cheery coke.


2004/9/18
We found a Boston lager another grocery store.

Bagels
It was very delicious the bagel of H&H in NYC so I try to find bagel look like the bagel of Ｈ＆Ｈ in Japan.
After visiting NYC,I bought a lot of bagels but I have not found out.
The best bagel was EINSTEIN BROS bagel of COSTCO.


I knew EINSTEIN BROS is the one restaurant group of New World Restaurant Inc.
There are the photo of PLANE type and Raisin type.
The price is about 50 cents so we can eat as we want.


Bye Bye