Hand Dynamics Goes To NYC

New York City, the Big Apple, what an exciting place to be! So many things to do, so many places to go, all the diverse people to see—it was a four day whirlwind tour, but what fun!

Day One: We arrived and took a shuttle to our friend’s apartment at 96th and Columbus—a block off Central Park. We dragged our luggage up four flights of stairs (no elevator!), dropped the bags there and headed up to the rooftop garden to take a snooze in the NYC sun at 11 am. It had been doing nothing but raining in Northern California, so while New York may not be known for it’s sunny disposition, it sure felt good on that day!

After a nap and feeling a little more refreshed, we hopped on the subway and headed down to Greenwich Village for the afternoon. We popped into Chumley’s and were immersed in the history and activity of this prohibition era establishment responsible for the term, “being 86’d” (from a club). When it was a speakeasy, Chumley’s had two entrances. When the prohibition police would come in the main door to raid the place the clientele would run out the other door that let out onto 86th street, thus creating that now famous phrase.

Lunch was excellent hamburgers at the Blue Mill restaurant there in the Village—highly recommended.

Returning to meet our friends, we had dinner in, (NY Pizza of course!) then went to a comedy review at Gotham Comedy Club. It was a very sparse audience (it was Tuesday night after all), but the comics were all very good for the most part. We took the subway there, but our friends advised us to cab it home.

Day Two: The village is a marvelous place to walk around and experience some of the history of this great city, but a trip to NYC would not be complete without a visit to Times Square! We went several different times on this trip and I recommend going either before noon or after the sun goes down, because in between, it’s just an uncomfortable jostle of wall to wall people moving in baby steps - not very fun.

Our requisite theatre experience was a matinee of Sweeny Todd (the Demon Barber of Fleet Street), which was an excellent production.

We met our friends at Lucille’s for an early dinner and then headed to the 91st Street Y for a blues show—what fun and good leg-slappin’ music!

Day Three: It was off to the Avenue of the Americas to see Radio City Music Hall and its surrounding neighborhood. It was great entertainment to visit this area! There were some of the most fancy and expensive establishments on the planet there, but there was also some remarkable architecture, statuary, and artwork to look at for free, as well as some really good bargains to be found at places in between.

Our next stop was Central Park near Columbus Circle. More eye candy in architecture and statuary as well as entertainment when we stopped to watch the street performers doing tricks and jumps and tumbles. And there was a cart there that had the best prices on T-shirts and sweatshirts that we found.

Day Four: To top off our trip we took a three-hour boat ride around Manhattan Island. This was definitely the highlight of the trip! Our tour guide was very entertaining as well as knowledgeable and next time we are doing this attraction first!

It had been about 30 years since my last trip to NYC. Obviously, the city had changed since my last visit, but so had I. We are both older and better! I will not let so many years pass before my next trip there again.

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