Forward-Looking Spring Break - New York City part 1

One wish list before 30, visiting New York and I made it :)

Since the first day I landed in New York, I simply loved it!
Why I love New York? It's just love, it's hard to describe, it's just an amazing feeling that I felt when exploring the city..alone..it feels different but in a very good way!

Chilly Spring in New York :)

 a park lover :)

Central Park just like in the movies :)

I just love the street, the building, the not-so-clean subway, the rush hour, the people, the neighborhood, the bars, the parks, ahhhh their parks are amazing! the universities, hang out places...ahh so many things made me falling love with this city...

Park near New York University

Bryant Park

Before travelling to New York City I heard some people mentioned that they didn't like NYC, it's typical a big city, it's dirty, it's just ok..well that's what I've heard but then it didn't stop me to visit NY. Having the opportunity to stay in the US for a year, I put NY as the city that I must visit, of course we have to visit the city, it's New York that we were talking about!!!

Well, some of you may not agree with that statement but I was raised in a big city in Indonesia, despite all those bad traffic jam, crazy people on the street, working people who always in a rush, I always found something interesting in this kind of world :)
I love doing people-watching that is why I like to visit big city, there are always things to see :)
Call me big city girl whatsoever... yes I am!

I contacted my friend in New York and asked the possibility to stay with her for couple of days and she said "Yes". Accommodation problem in NY is solved yay! I searched the tickets to NY and found a good deal which only costed me less than $300 for the return tickets. For me it's not that cheap but for americans that would say wow that's damn cheap, so yeah I took it!

This is actually my first-time traveling alone in the US, it's so exciting for me as I enjoy being solo traveler instead of traveling with groups. I left San Francisco around 10pm and got 6 hours of flight to New Jersey airport  which was only an hour and half away from New York. This is how cheap tickets work, get you to the nearest airport and at unexpected hour hahahah yeah I got to NJ at 4 am :D
Continued sleeping like homeless traveler in NJ airport but it was fun hahahhaha I enjoyed every minutes of it!!!

From New Jersey airport, the cheapest way to reach New York is taking the bus from the airport to Path train station then Path train will take you to one of biggest New York metro station which is penn station 34th st. As far I remember this NJ to NY trip costed me around $5 (bus and path train)

I thought that spring in New York will be warmer but I was wrong, It was very windy and it rains a lot that day, so warm Spring break wasn't for me. But cold and wind didn't stop me to enjoy this city :)

I stayed in Queen and it was pretty easy to get around the city using subway, I bought one week pass that costed me about $30 and it definitely saved my money as I travelled within the city a lot everyday. New York subway can be pretty confusing as it has a lot of lines, number such as 1,2,3,4,5 and alphabets such as M,N,E,F hahahhaha you better download NY subway maps mobile apps, it helped me a lot!

Anyway, I had no particular things to see, 5 days in NY pretty much I see what I see, you know kinda being spontaneous and not to touristy. The silly things but fun for me , I just wanted to see some spots in NY such as Central Park, Columbia University, Brookly  just because the teenage series I use to watch, Gossip Girl hahahah yeah you know you love me xoxo
It was a fun-alone-trip so far :) I'm so glad I made it!!!