New York City, Holidays 2019 ~ Travel
Holidays in NYC are on the bucket list for many people, and there are certainly BIG reasons to experience it at least once. We squeezed in our trip right between Christmas and New Years Eve, and we certainly made the most of it.
We stayed in Harlem, in a very spacious (by NY standards) studio apartment on 125th St, very close the subway, and a walking distance from the historic part of Harlem, the Apollo theater, and many churches. Our welcome dinner was at the famous Red Rooster restaurant, and we even managed a subway ride that night to the Times Square to see the famous walls of lit up billboards.
As you may have seen from the “NYC ~ Create” post on this blog, I envisioned a tight itinerary. The first full day included a stroll through Central Park, a Rockettes show at the Radio City Music Hall, and a well-timed reservation to ride up to the Top of the Rock for a gorgeous sunset.
Times Square 
The Met 
The Rockettes 
Rockefeller Plaza 
Top of the Rock 
Tiffany’s 
Xmas in NYC 
Grand Central Station 
Rockerfeller Plaza tree
The next day we spent more time in Central Park, lunched at the Russian Tearoom, did a walking tour of fancy holiday display windows at the famed department stores like Bloomingdales and Lord & Taylor, and later returned to Broadway to watch Chicago. Our youngest even scored a few cast signatures on her playbill – such a highlight.
Our final day in NYC, reserved for exploration of the south end of Manhattan, Battery Park and the Brooklyn Bridge, turned cold, windy and rainy. We still managed to see the 9/11 Memorial, the Federal Hall National Monument (it teaches you a lot about US History I bet you did not know…), and Battery Park. We even rode the Staten Island ferry, though visibility was really bad, and we could barely make out the Statue of Liberty. Nearly soaked and very tired, we made it fairly close to the Brooklyn Bridge, but alas, it will be for another, warmer and sunnier time, to walk across it.
And here something unexpected and so delightful, even on a whipping cold December afternoon (it is in an enclosed structure):
And here is the cute AirBnB we stayed at, all the way in central Harlem, but comfortable, very close to the Subway, and surrounded by history of this iconic area of NYC: Renovated, Designer 1-BR Apt near Subways – Apartments for Rent in New York, New York, United States (airbnb.com)
