A Visit to New York, New York

As most of you know, I recently returned from New York City.  I went because I'd been deferred by Brooklyn Law School, and really needed to make up my mind about the school.  If offered a seat, even if it was in the night section, would I take it?  Since the school was willing to give me only 48 hours after extending an offer, I decided to time to visit was now.

I used one of my free Northwest tickets, and got a cheap room at the Hostelling International - New York.  The hostel was in Manhattan, on Amsterdam, one block away from the 103rd and Broadway subway stop.  

I, of course, didn't know this precise tidbit, so I got off the M60 bus from LaGuardia and walked way too many blocks from Columbia to the Hostel.  Once I finally arrived, I was quite tired, but happy to be in a new place.  The hostel was clean and was a good place to say.  I shared a room with three other visitors to the city, A guy from Germany, his internet girlfriend from the Midwest, and an Irish chick.  We also had several other roommates that stayed for only one day.

The German guy, his girlfriend, a random Asian chick from the Hostel's library, and I all went out to see Times Square my second night there.  I took lots of photos.

My new friends got tired of walking, and we weren't yet ready for dinner, so we went to go see a movie in the largest movie theater I've ever seen.  It was directly under the MTV building.

After the movie, we went and had dinner at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., a theme restaurant focused on the movie Forest Gump.I had stuffed shrimp, it was very good.

I had fun zipping about the city on the subway.  It was lots of fun to not have to drive.  One problem with the arrangement, though, is that I am leery of putting my ability to get where I need to go in someone else's hands.  What if they decide not to go to work?  What if there's no electricity?  Could my liver survive if I know I don't have to drive home?

One neat thing about the subway are the random performances you get to check into.  I think this type of thing would become my Sunday afternoon entertainment, either riding around listening to them or taking my tuba to a station and playing for the passers-by.

I also liked looking for interesting things in the subway stations.  Things like antennas and good cable management.

One place I went alone was to the WTC site.  I almost lost a friend there, but he managed to get out.  Everyone else he was in a meeting with died.  I have lots of photos, but I'll post a few of the ones that really stuck out.

For those of you who are interested, you can check out my entire photo album of the trip.