We decided to spend the morning touring New York City, and we chose the double-decker red bus tour to teach and show us as much as possible in a few hours. It's was really quite informational and entertaining! Tonight we'll fly to Oregon, so we saw as much as we could, and met as many people as we could, while still in The Big Apple - what a great experience with its hustle and bustle, its majestic skyscrapers, its energetic inhabitants, and the beautiful touring weather we had all day!
I enjoyed seeing the United Nations building, since this year I have served as the advisor for the Model United Nations Club at my school. This land was given by Rockefeller to be used by the UN last century and is not considered U.S. property. When you buy and mail a postcard from here, it has its own stamp and postmark - not a part of the United State Postal Service!
This area known as Stuyvesant was built after WW2 to house military personnel and their families. It consists of 100 buildings and covers a large area. It was recently bought for $7.5 Billion dollars, one of the largest single real estate deals ever!
This is the only grocery store with a parking lot in Manhattan! Land is too valuable to "waste" it on parking spaces out in the open (most parking is quite expensive and found only in subterraneum parking structures under large business complexes).
Isn't it hard to believe that a building still stands that George Washington frequented? Evidently he worshipped at this church in New York City, our nation's first capital.
This bank really impressed me with its hours! It would be awesome to have a bank open enough hours that are really convenient for the customers! If I did my banking here, I'd never complain about "banker's hours" again!
We never got to see the real Twin Towers when they existed. But our tour guide said to picture this building twice as tall, and that would be like the World Trade Center buildings were! They sound HUGE!
In Chinatown we saw this great sign. We weren't sure what they wanted us to buy, but it looked so interesting we knew we wanted some! We were approached by no less than 40 salespeople (or their spokespeople!) with the rapid phrase "handbag, handbag? purse, purse?" Usually, the person (men and women) who blurted this at us didn't even have a sample handbag on them. Some did have a picture of what the purses might look like, but it was too simplistic of a salespitch in my opinion!
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This area known as Stuyvesant was built after WW2 to house military personnel and their families. It consists of 100 buildings and covers a large area. It was recently bought for $7.5 Billion dollars, one of the largest single real estate deals ever!
This is the only grocery store with a parking lot in Manhattan! Land is too valuable to "waste" it on parking spaces out in the open (most parking is quite expensive and found only in subterraneum parking structures under large business complexes).
Isn't it hard to believe that a building still stands that George Washington frequented? Evidently he worshipped at this church in New York City, our nation's first capital.
This bank really impressed me with its hours! It would be awesome to have a bank open enough hours that are really convenient for the customers! If I did my banking here, I'd never complain about "banker's hours" again!
We never got to see the real Twin Towers when they existed. But our tour guide said to picture this building twice as tall, and that would be like the World Trade Center buildings were! They sound HUGE!
In Chinatown we saw this great sign. We weren't sure what they wanted us to buy, but it looked so interesting we knew we wanted some! We were approached by no less than 40 salespeople (or their spokespeople!) with the rapid phrase "handbag, handbag? purse, purse?" Usually, the person (men and women) who blurted this at us didn't even have a sample handbag on them. Some did have a picture of what the purses might look like, but it was too simplistic of a salespitch in my opinion!carried
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