My trip to New York
Well Folks, here I come again with some updates. Last weekend I had been to the most populous and everyone's dream city yeah.. NEW YORK. I was as usual excited about everything in US these days so was for my travel to NY. I travelled to NY on friday at 3:00 AM. Took a Greyhound bus service and reached NY around 7:00 AM. My Colleague Santosh came with me and we planned to stay at his friends place in Parson's Blvd in Jamaica. We got down at 42nd Street, it is also called as port of authority. The bus terminal here reminds me of our Imlibun Station. It is also very big and got lot number of platforms. There is Subway (Metro railways) connecting to the bus terminal. Most of the New York is connected through subway, something like Local trains of Mumbai city. I'm sure Mumbai people would love this CITY, as the same thing which I saw in mumbai, exist here also. People rushing, getting down steps to catch the train and doing all thier chore activities in train itself. Well the best part of Subway is that even a stranger can easily guide himself and reach the destination. Because the platforms are well mapped and directions are properly guided. One can see complete route maps of subway at each corner. If you know the street you can easily reach it. The New york city address mostly consists of streets and each streets are further divided into avenues. So If you have the street no and avenue no, you can easily reach to your destination.
We got down at a place called Jackson Heights, which is know for indian community with all the indian shops and cuisine restaurants. I was really hungry ;-) and that too Indian food for which I was desparate. Got into an indian restaurant and had good buffet lunch around 12:00 noon. What a way to start the journey. Next we reached 34th Street (Penn Station), the place where the world's 20th Century tallest building is situated. Yeah you guys guessed right, I was referring to EMPIRE STATE BUILDING. I saw the photos of ESB with my DAD. And now I will be taking his place. Well to tell you some facts about ESB. It was built in year 1931. The tower was constructed in record 1 yr and 2 months with average 4000 workers per day. Quite amazing stuff. It has 102 floors. We went upto 86th floor and the scene from there was awesome, never in my life I climbed so high. Well many of the things happening with me are first time :-). We were able to view complete NY city and the sky scrapper buildings, they were reallly amazing, was wondering how people will get ideas of such tall building. I have taken good number of snaps, which I have updated on site (URL:). Our next destination was World Trade centre, took a subway and reached there. Really the twin towers which was NAGINA of NY is missing there. We also went to Wall St and other surrounding areas. We went to Battery park, took few snaps there. I couldn't go to Statue of Liberty as we went to the place late and tickets were sold. May be someother time I will plan to visit. Next we visited Brookyln and walked in the Manhattan area for a while. We were really tired and went back and took rest. The next day i.e. 04/29/06 we planned to go to Coney Island , we have a beach there and some fun rides. Before that I need to meet one of my friend (Srikanth) in Elmhurst Blvd, met him and he took us for a ride to near by places. We drive over brookyln bridge and Srikanth showed us the Science museum and Warships and Submarines also. We also saw the Rock Fellar Museum Centre from far as we were driving. The uniqueness of this museum is that other than the United Nation office, this is the place where all the Countires flag are hoisted.. We were really hungry by this time, so we had some snacks at McDonalds and moved our journey towards Coney Island.
Coney Island is small island which has a beach and some fun rides. We spent good time there, wathching people doing fishing, some playing in water and sea gulls moving here and there. From Coney Island, we came back to friend's place and collected our bag as we have to catch our Syracuse bus. We got down at 42nd street and went to Times Square around 8:30 pm. This was the best part of the trip as everyone says, when you visit NY you have to go to Times Square at night. Wow ! what a place man, the streets are completely lighten with diffrent kinds of lights, animation and advertising. I really liked it very much, as they New York is the best entertainment place. It lives to it's name. Took LOT of snaps and had some snacks again at McDonalds and moved towards Bus Station.
Well that end my trip of NY, it was one of the memorable trips and cherished one in my life. There are few disappoints also that I could not cover few places like Statue of Liberty, Madam Tausauds Centre, New Jersey and Empire State Building at night. Well I may plan to visit again sometime during JUNE. I will try to cover them at that time. Well Folks, hope you must have enjoyed reading the Blog. Please post your comments about it.
Guru
Well Folks, here I come again with some updates. Last weekend I had been to the most populous and everyone's dream city yeah.. NEW YORK. I was as usual excited about everything in US these days so was for my travel to NY. I travelled to NY on friday at 3:00 AM. Took a Greyhound bus service and reached NY around 7:00 AM. My Colleague Santosh came with me and we planned to stay at his friends place in Parson's Blvd in Jamaica. We got down at 42nd Street, it is also called as port of authority. The bus terminal here reminds me of our Imlibun Station. It is also very big and got lot number of platforms. There is Subway (Metro railways) connecting to the bus terminal. Most of the New York is connected through subway, something like Local trains of Mumbai city. I'm sure Mumbai people would love this CITY, as the same thing which I saw in mumbai, exist here also. People rushing, getting down steps to catch the train and doing all thier chore activities in train itself. Well the best part of Subway is that even a stranger can easily guide himself and reach the destination. Because the platforms are well mapped and directions are properly guided. One can see complete route maps of subway at each corner. If you know the street you can easily reach it. The New york city address mostly consists of streets and each streets are further divided into avenues. So If you have the street no and avenue no, you can easily reach to your destination.
We got down at a place called Jackson Heights, which is know for indian community with all the indian shops and cuisine restaurants. I was really hungry ;-) and that too Indian food for which I was desparate. Got into an indian restaurant and had good buffet lunch around 12:00 noon. What a way to start the journey. Next we reached 34th Street (Penn Station), the place where the world's 20th Century tallest building is situated. Yeah you guys guessed right, I was referring to EMPIRE STATE BUILDING. I saw the photos of ESB with my DAD. And now I will be taking his place. Well to tell you some facts about ESB. It was built in year 1931. The tower was constructed in record 1 yr and 2 months with average 4000 workers per day. Quite amazing stuff. It has 102 floors. We went upto 86th floor and the scene from there was awesome, never in my life I climbed so high. Well many of the things happening with me are first time :-). We were able to view complete NY city and the sky scrapper buildings, they were reallly amazing, was wondering how people will get ideas of such tall building. I have taken good number of snaps, which I have updated on site (URL:). Our next destination was World Trade centre, took a subway and reached there. Really the twin towers which was NAGINA of NY is missing there. We also went to Wall St and other surrounding areas. We went to Battery park, took few snaps there. I couldn't go to Statue of Liberty as we went to the place late and tickets were sold. May be someother time I will plan to visit. Next we visited Brookyln and walked in the Manhattan area for a while. We were really tired and went back and took rest. The next day i.e. 04/29/06 we planned to go to Coney Island , we have a beach there and some fun rides. Before that I need to meet one of my friend (Srikanth) in Elmhurst Blvd, met him and he took us for a ride to near by places. We drive over brookyln bridge and Srikanth showed us the Science museum and Warships and Submarines also. We also saw the Rock Fellar Museum Centre from far as we were driving. The uniqueness of this museum is that other than the United Nation office, this is the place where all the Countires flag are hoisted.. We were really hungry by this time, so we had some snacks at McDonalds and moved our journey towards Coney Island.
Coney Island is small island which has a beach and some fun rides. We spent good time there, wathching people doing fishing, some playing in water and sea gulls moving here and there. From Coney Island, we came back to friend's place and collected our bag as we have to catch our Syracuse bus. We got down at 42nd street and went to Times Square around 8:30 pm. This was the best part of the trip as everyone says, when you visit NY you have to go to Times Square at night. Wow ! what a place man, the streets are completely lighten with diffrent kinds of lights, animation and advertising. I really liked it very much, as they New York is the best entertainment place. It lives to it's name. Took LOT of snaps and had some snacks again at McDonalds and moved towards Bus Station.
Well that end my trip of NY, it was one of the memorable trips and cherished one in my life. There are few disappoints also that I could not cover few places like Statue of Liberty, Madam Tausauds Centre, New Jersey and Empire State Building at night. Well I may plan to visit again sometime during JUNE. I will try to cover them at that time. Well Folks, hope you must have enjoyed reading the Blog. Please post your comments about it.
Guru
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