Forward Looking Spring Break -New York Part 2

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!!

Cabaret Show, Brooklyn New York

 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!!

Brooklyn Bridge

Me and the view from Brooklyn Bridge

View of Manhattan Bridge

Brooklyn bridge and Manhattan bridge at night

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. 

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 :( 

NYU Business School

Columbia University Main Library

Columbia University

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!