Our free stay at Row NY Hotel ended on April 29. We extended by a day so we moved to another hotel on the same street, the Holiday Inn. Oyen has a VIP loyalty / rewards card at this hotel chain so she picked this hotel although it’s small.
It started to drizzle while we were waiting for a cab to go to Lincoln Center.
$11 to Lincoln Center
What else is there to explore in NY? Our colleagues from Federal Phoenix used this last day to go to Central Park. We stayed in the area.
Walking distance from the hotel is a small cluster of small stores selling mostly souvenir items for tourists like me.
What a better way to remember your name and your travel than this tiny pressed tin plate, $8-
You were not able to explore the following:
You missed the St. Patrick Cathedral at 5th Avenue at 50th Street. Also, the St. Paul Apostle Church at 60th Street and Amsterdam, next door to Fordham University. Inside, they have this big running Holy Water stoup basin right after the entrance of the church. They have a religious bookshop selling religious articles mostly imported from Italy. You also missed the Columbus Circle, right at the mouth of Central Park, On the west of Columbus Circle is the twin tower of Midtown and uptown Manhattan, called Time Warner Center which contains 55 floors (residential condominiums) At the curving arcade at the base of the building were upscale shopping mall called The Shops at Columbus Circle, Upscale stores selling luxury brands: Armani Exchange, Davidoff, Hugo Bass, Coach, the famous American shoe store, Stuart Weitzman, Tumi, Cole Haan, Thomas Pink, and organic Whole Foods Market located at the basement. The tower has also one hotel, Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
At the mall, they have also restaurants, where the most expensive restaurant in New York is located. You also missed the Chinatown at the Canal Street in downtown Manhattan where everything they sell is cheap, because they sell everything fake, from Rolex watches to luxury brand bags, sunglasses, etc.
NYC Row Hotel used to be called Times Square Hotel in the late 80’s, subsidize by New York govt for poor New Yorkers. I was surprised it was converted into a business.
Hi Dee,
Thank you for the list of places to explore in NYC. I’ve seen and visited all the places you’ve mentioned, during my previous trips to the city, not in April 2016. I’ve lighted candles and heard masses at the St. Patrick Cathedral. I had dined 6x at Masa on the 3rd floor of Time Warner Building. I’ve been to Chinatown twice for early supper. That building was my istambayan when my daughter was still in school. She lived there for 5 years so I pretty much walked all the blocks and avenues in Manhattan.
How about the Koreantown at West 32nd Street near the Empire State Bldg , (from 5th Ave to 7th Ave,) . Whenever I miss the Philippine biko, and whenever I am in the area, and if I want to go Jack’s 99 cents near the Madison Square Garden, I go to the Haan An Rheum supermarket for fresh fish and their Philippine version of biko, lots of varieties of them and very delicious. They call it rice cake. Then I ran to 12 West 32nd Street Woorijip restaurant, a buffet style restaurant for their for their very hot miso soup or bean sprouts soup and eat the biko there. Of course I hide the biko, because they have also biko but very expensive and small. I want you to try their biko, and you will always come back. I promise you.