In my previous post I mentioned that I didn’t really have to-do- list in New York, I just wanna enjoy my traveling alone time which turned really great time J
I didn’t wanna visit too many places in a day and ended up very tired, remember that I’m a jompo traveler now, yeah I’m getting old! You know New York is big, has five boroughs - The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island, I think I just gonna explore three of them.
First night in New York I spent hanging out around Dumbo, Brooklyn. It was right under Manhattan Bridge, there are a lot of bars, restaurants and coffee shops, yeah this was really my scene. It was rainy that night , we went for a drink in a bar before going to Cabaret Show. My friend and I were planning to watch Cabaret show as we got free tickets for the Cabaret. The Cabaret show was pretty entertaining, some nipple tassle spinning involved but yeah hella fun show!!
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| Cabaret Show, Brooklyn New York |
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| Cabaret Show, Brooklyn New York |
When we finished watching the Cabaret it was like 2am, we
took the subway and I amazed that there were a lot of people at that time in
the Subway, maybe it was true that NY never sleeps and I love this fact :D
The next day I visited Brooklyn Bridge, it was very very
windy. I walked from subway station toward Broklyn Bridge. I could see the
bridge from far. It could have been more beautiful at night I imagined.
Brooklyn at mid day is still pretty though but I would love to come back just
to see the view of the bridge at night. Right next to Broklyn bridge, we could
see Manhantan bridge, the river, the skyscrapers, just like the view in the movies, beautiful!!
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| Brooklyn Bridge |
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| Me and the view from Brooklyn Bridge |
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| View of Manhattan Bridge |
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| Brooklyn bridge and Manhattan bridge at night |
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| Admiring NYC at night |
As I walked crossing the Brooklyn bridge, I noticed that there
are a lot of padlocks with people’s name hanged onto the bridge. I haven’t
found any padlock with my name written on it but I found my best friend name
“Ruth”. I took a picture and sent it to my friend . I wish she were here with me that day.
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| A padlock with my best friend's name on it "Ruth" |
Strolling and enjoying the view of Brooklyn and Manhattan
Bridge, I continued walking to Dumbo, Brooklyn and found Starbucks to order my usual green tea latte. It was raining outside and I felt so great, this is perfect.
Raining and you are inside a coffee place sipping your hot green tea latte, in
Brooklyn New York, it’s perfect for me J
this simple thing that made my trip memorable, I would always remember the
feeling that day.
As I will spend around 5 days in New York, I would love to
catch up with friends, one of them is Larry and we met in Indonesia, 3 years
ago, my cousins was his co-workers.
I met Larry in Starbucks and then we had dinner around Brooklyn as I told
him that I wanted to explore Brooklyn. After dinner, Larry took me to other neighborhood that has a
of of bars in Mid-Manhattan and we
had few drinks in one of the bar. I kinda like his neighborhood as well, it was so lively. By
the time we left Manhattan it was already midnight, thanks God NY subway is
24 hours so we didn’t have to go home by taxi just jumped into the train. J the thing that I like about NY is the
subway! Actually my friend said that taxi here isn’t as expensive as in other
city, well that was true though I compared it with taxi fare in San Francisco,
taxi here is definitely cheaper.
Ahh I haven’t explained why this is called forward-looking
spring break. Actually this isn’t just a vacation for me, I planned to have
campus tour as I have a plan to continue my master in the US so I’d love to have
a look at few campus in NY and find out whether I could live in NY or not. The
next day, Yessy took me to her campus The New School. It was pretty impressive
and I assumed this kinda high-end campus, private schools here are so expensive
L We went to NYU and
Columbia University that day and I was so in love with Columbia. I heard it’s
very expensive to study here but anyway I put Columbia in my wish list for
master degree. Traveling through United States, I found 2 dream campuses,
University of Washington and Columbia University, too bad it’s too expensive to
study there :(
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| NYU Business School |
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| Columbia University Main Library |
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| Columbia University |
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| Columbia University |
I will share the next days' story in Part 3, taking Ferry to cross Liberty statue,
Grand Central Station, Time Square, NY Public Library and lot moreJ
All I can say is that getting lost alone in NY is definitely
worth it, it’s so easy to get around the city!
