Your Ideal New York City Vacation: with REVIEWS (page 16!)- Page 10

[Anakela]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 10:57am

This New York City map highlights Manhattan's Battery Park and Financial District.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:03am

Thank you!

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:19am

So, another change in our Thursday morning.

Wake up early. We'll leave our hotel no later than 7. Take the subway to the World Trade Center Memorial. Then, walk down Wall Street and go to Battery Park for a look at the Statue of Liberty. Then, we'll take the subway to SoHo, and continue our day.

Should we still take the same subway as stated before on my last itinerary from Battery Park to SoHo?

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:23am

I'll just put all three different routes to SoHo (from Ground Zero, from Wall Street, and from Battery Park) on my itinerary. So, we'll just have option depending on where we go first.

[siny]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:30pm

I don't have my subway map handy right now. Make sure you get your free copy from a token booth clerk. There are lots of subways stopping in the vicinity, so you'll have no problem getting back to SoHo. Your itinerary is good but it involves a lot of walking. But if you are all up to it, there is a lot to see along the way. Make sure you see the "Charging Bull" statue in front of Battery Park. It's located here:

http://www.virtualnyctour.com/movingMap1.php?trailName=downtownAndWallSt:20:2

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:35pm

I like to know what subway station we're going to. So, one of the three.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 4:20pm

I didn't realize we were doing an insane amount of walking.

[siny]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 4:42pm

I would not describe it as "insane", lol. I would do it.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 5:02pm

Okay. Here it is. Hopefully, this is the last one. If you could just take a look at my subway stations I have laid out and give me some feedback, that'd be fabulous. Thursday morning has been reworked, and Friday's departure is added.

Tuesday August 7th

• Plane Lands: 3:30 pm (LaGuardia)

• Hotel Check- In Time: 3:00 pm

• Unpack bags/ settle/ rest

• Walk to Central Park/ possible cab

• Walk through Central Park

• Dinner: Tavern on the Green (reservation time pending)

• Walk/ cab back to hotel


Wednesday August 8th

• Breakfast: MoonRock Diner
313 W 57th St, New York 10019
Btwn 8th & 9th Ave

• Subway to Times Square (Columbus Circle Station heading Downtown/ to South Ferry, taking the 1 train)

• Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum (opens at 10 am, reservations pending)

• Walk around Times Square, shopping

• Lunch: Street Stand in Times Square (hotdog, pretzel, etc.)

• Legally Blonde the Musical- The Palace Theatre, 1564 Broadway, NY NY, 2 pm

• Dinner: Ellen’s Stardust Diner
1650 Broadway, New York 10019
At 51st St

• Mary Poppins the Musical- New Amsterdam Theatre , 42nd Street and Broadway, 8 pm

• Cab/ subway back to the hotel (Times Square Station- 42nd Street Station heading Uptown/ to Van Cortlandt Park, taking the 1 train)


Thursday August 9th

• After an early rise and a departure no later than 7, subway to World Trade Center memorial/ Ground Zero (59 Street- Columbus Circle Station heading Downtown/ Lefferts Boulevard, taking the A train)

• Walk down Wall Street/ walk to Battery Park for a view of the Statue of Libery

• Subway to SoHo for breakfast from the World Trade Center (World Trade Center Station heading Uptown/ Jamaica Center, taking the E train), from Wall Street (Rector Street Station heading Uptown/ Forest Hills, taking the R train), or from Battery Park (Whitehall Street- South Ferry Station heading Uptown/ Forest Hills, taking the R train)

• Breakfast: Vesuvio Bakery & Café (SoHo)
160 Prince St, New York 10012
Btwn W Bway & Thompson St

• Walk around SoHo, look around NYU

• Walk to Little Italy

• Lunch: Pomodoro Ristorante
Of Little Italy
51 Spring St, New York 10012
At Mulberry St

• Walk/ cab/ subway to Rockefeller Center (Broadway- Lafayette Street Station heading Uptown, taking the B train)

• NBC Studios Tour (reservations pending)

• Walk around Rockefeller Center

• Cab or walk (.54 miles, about 12 minutes, directions printed) to dinner

• Dinner: Joe Allen
326 W 46th St, New York 10036
Btwn 8th & 9th Ave

• Grey Gardens the Musical- Walter Kerr Theatre 219 W 48th Street, 8 pm

• Cab/ subway back to hotel after show (47-50 Streets- Rockefeller Center station heading Uptown/ 205 Street, taking the D train)

Friday August 10th

• Breakfast: To be decided (possibly a repeat visit to MoonRock Diner or a spot seen in previous travels)

• Hotel Check- Out Time: 12 pm

• Cab to Amtrak Train Station

• Train Departs: 11 am

[Anakela]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 5:14pm

• Grey Gardens the Musical- Walter Kerr Theatre 219 W 48th Street, 8 pm

• Cab/ subway back to hotel after show (47-50 Streets- Rockefeller Center station heading Uptown/ 205 Street, taking the D train)


You're walking from the theatre on 48th/Bway all the way east to Rock Ctr (6th Ave) in order to backtrack and catch the train west to Columbus Circle (8th Ave)? Why not just walk, or why not take the 1 train from 50th St to Columbus Circle (which is only one stop, which again asks the question why not just walk?)

(Unless I'm remembering wrong, and Columbus Circle isn't the stop near your hotel- in which case ignore everything I just said).

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 5:20pm

Well, I was just with what hopstop.com said.

So, we should just walk, even at 11 at night?

How long would the walk be?

Yes, Columbia Circle is near the hotel.

[siny]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 5:39pm

Does A train stop anywhere near WTC ? Don't you have to change to E at Canal St. ? And, yes, I would walk around that area at 11 PM and have done so on many occasions - it's as safe as taking a subway at that time. I am with the previous poster - I would walk from the theater to the hotel. It's a short walk.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 5:44pm

Okay. I'll look into it.

About the A train question... I am just going off of hopstop.com.

[siny]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:01pm

Look for yourself:

http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm

Yeah, you can walk to WTC from Chambers St., but that's adding even more walking.

I would rely on the latest subway map before I would rely on hopstop. Just saying.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:05pm

So, what are you saying? What train should I take?

[siny]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:23pm

Train A going downtown and then at Canal St. change to E train going to WTC.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:26pm

Well, at hopstop.com I chose "fewer changes/ more walking". Maybe that's why it's weird.

I am confused.

[siny]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:27pm

Or walk down to 50th St. and take E train from there straight to WTC

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:31pm

Okay. We'll walk to the hotel from GREY GARDENS.

I am going to look into the hotel to WTC travel.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:33pm

Okay. Please go to hopstop.

We are departing from 440 w 57th street and going to WORLD TRADE CENTER at 7 am with more walking/ fewer transfers.

[siny]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:37pm

So, instead of going up to 59th st. station, you can walk down to 50th st. station and catch the E train from there. It will take you straight down to WTC.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:38pm

Why doesn't it just say that on hopstop?

Is what the site is saying wrong?

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:40pm

I just think I should go with what hopstop is saying.

[siny]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:42pm

I don't think hopstop has E train in its database. I would just get the free subway map they have in every token booth and use that instead.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 6:45pm

Would taking the E train be subsantially quicker (than 28 minutes)?