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Take a bite out of one piece or many of the Big Apple. We took the NJ Transit in New York. The company is a modern bus to Port Authority on 42nd Street. The Port Authority is one of many ground transportation hubs in New York. Most of your major bus companies are there and you can make with almost every line in a tunnel on foot from the subway Times Square. The hubs are rail from Grand Central Station, subway shuttle to Times Square and Penn Station, a journey in two stops on the underground line. The subway system in Manhattan is the quick and efficient transportation on the island, each with stops in five fifty-six blocks. The system for the confusion with many independent companies, the different letters indicated: IRT, BMT, etc. Today, the different routes by colors and numbers or letters named. A map showing all streets and points. The subway system is now very easy to follow. There is also strong, in contrast to the perception of some people. Here are a few known facts about the system. The tunnels are at least eight stories below ground. There are miles of mazes, even in the tubes themselves, where homeless people have made their home. On one of the sections of Manhattan, Queens, the tracks literally rolling on the water under the East River. Even the engineers do not know how to fix the issue. Money raised at the counter is determined by a special train that makes the system delivered. The trains are very long, at least ten cars in length. Most cars have benches along the sides, so the car for more standing room. There are three exits on each side of the car, so that the entry and exit quickly. The runners are called belts, because they hang from the ceiling at the belts while driving to exist. The newest cars at the next stop on the plates in the car. Some have even lit a map of the route and current position of the vehicle on the map.

The New York City comprises five counties: Kings (Manhattan), Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn and Richmond (Staten Iceland). All neighborhoods are connected by underground or train or bus, with the exception of Staten Iceland, which is served by the famous ferry. Learn more about the different areas where we visit them.

I went for dessert at Cafe Lalo, where part of the movie “Got Mail” was shot. Then we went to Broadway in Fairfield market, a few blocks south of world famous Zabar, a grocery store and kitchen equipment (but much more: an experiment). I was surprised by the variety of fresh produce and meat, fish and poultry prices relatively low. The fairways are very narrow in the shop, because that space is a premium in Manhattan. Buy an unlimited number of Metro Pass, .00 for the week, and hop on a bus to downtown on Broadway. Downtown means to the battery, the southern tip of Manhattan.

Uptown is located in the north and the cross-town or on the East River (East Side) or Hudson River (West Side) position. What a wonderful safe and see the city. We passed through Columbus Circle, on the edge of Central Park, Julliard, Lincoln Center, theater district and lively film through Times Square. The bus then east on 42nd Street and the Public Library, Grand Central Station and ended at the Palais des Nations adopted.

Until fate brought us there, we visited the famous UN building. Mati from Senegal in West Africa, was our guide and was very knowledgeable about the functioning of the United Nations. This is not the paper tiger that some people say it is. This is a forum for all nations of the world for mutual concern: military conflicts, landmines, disease, hunger, trade talk, etc. Perhaps the real tigers are the ones who want to control other nations or to make large profits in the promotion of these issues . Some of the rooms were used, namely the Security Council and the Council for Economic and Social Justice. They were at the meeting.

The bus from downtown Lexington Avenue continues. En route we passed through Chinatown, the Bowery, Little Italy, Greenwich Village rock, and ended at City Hall. There are so many different types of restaurants in New York, that another can eat every night and does not repeat itself for a lifetime.

Today we rode the subway. First we went to Uptown on the northern tip of Manhattan to Fort Tryon Park, this is the highest point in Manhattan, overlooking the Hudson and East River. At the northern tip of the park is the Museum cloister. This unique museum consists of five medieval cloisters from the demolition of buildings in Europe saved, together with numerous chapels and artifacts. Some of the sculpture, like a scarecrow has been used by farmers, while others were found in the piles. A room in circulation is the Unicorn tapestries, which say the hunt, death and resurrection of the unicorn, a symbol of Jesus Christ. The tapestry woven contains over one hundred different species of plants in the medieval stories. They are breathtaking, not only their beauty but also the nature of the tissue.

We went to Times Square jumped, then onto Route No. 7 subway to Queens and Flushing Meadows, site of 1963 Worlds Fair with the massive sculpture in the world. On both sides of the station Shea Stadium, home of the baseball team New York Mets and Arthur Ashe Stadium, site of the tournament are on the U.S. Open tennis. Back on the train to Times Square and on the way to Coney W Iceland at the tip of Brooklyn. We ate a world-famous Nathan’s Hot Dog. It can not compare to a Chicago Vienna hot dog. The amusement park was closed, only on weekends during the school to open in the session. The cyclone, its famous roller coaster, had just closed. Many thanks to our stomachs growling for this lack of synchronization. It is open daily from 12.00 to 04.00 clock. Mountains not look like much. But appearances are deceiving. This baby shakes, rattles and rolls. I wanted to see if they always gave me the same feeling as I was the last time he drove in 1963. But it must be one days later, which never came.

This day was to visit the Grande Dame of New York, the Statue of Liberty reserved. Take the train to Battery Park at the lower tip of Manhattan, we bought our tickets at Castle Clinton, a tutor once a fortress for the port, and a concert hall (the American debut of Jenny Lind), then a port entry immigration, and Now the ticket of Our Lady. Circular, it is normal for us to pass through a fortress to access the great lady welcomed. On the boat for fifteen minutes on Governors Iceland, it is easy to imagine the awe and deep feelings of immense joy to millions of immigrants, thought to be the first to sail through the Verrazano Narrows in New York Harbor. The statue, a gift from France more than a century, stands on another fort, one of the five were guarding the port. The cap rises eleven stories, and the lady herself is 151 meters. Once again, the security is very tight, and visitors are not allowed in the museum on the podium or in the crown. But his presence was as they say in Hebrew, “Dayenu” (It would have been sufficient).

Take yourself back on a boat built, we went to Ellis Iceland, in 1892, to the great flood of immigrants process. Two of our ancestors who came before that date, then you could pass through Castle Clinton, AKA, gardens or other input port. Charlie Walker has been our ranger guide. After a sergeant, he has to fit one vote. He missed his calling to the stage, because the tour was more of a live presentation with a gallery of characters in a story boring facts and figures. He loves his job. The experience of Iceland Ellis was reserved for passengers in the third grade. Remember the movie “Titanic” was the between-the lowest of the low. Passengers in first and second class were treated on board the vessels. After landing, the ship went to Ellis Iceland. He ran the third class of the challenge, the eyes of inspectors. I am reminded of images of the Holocaust, where the prisoners were “selected”. If you protested funny, walk, or seemed fragile, clothing was marked with chalk to the inspection and further processing. Many of these people are fleeing tyrannical regimes and have been scared of men in uniform. Here in America, they were controlled by men more fit. Families were separated, while the transformation take place, the men on one side and women and children on the other side of the room. The good news is that the process usually takes less than five hours and only 2% of the twelve million immigrants have been deported to their home countries. Who took trains remained west of New Jersey or stayed in New York to break the digging of the subway or other jobs again.

Back to Battery Park, we went on Broadway. At the entrance to the sculpture of the Globe of Peace was built on the World Trade Center. Miraculously, he survived the tragedy and is now at the foot of Broadway, which are observed by an eternal flame. Although damaged, the world holds for peace in this world.

the financial district, a war zone, barricades and armed police patrol the area resembles crossed. Our goal was Federal Hall on the corner of Nassau, Broad and Wall Street. Federal Hall was the first capital of the United States. Here in Washington was sworn in as president and the Congress meets. The building has long since been demolished. In its place a neo-classical building, outside the Parthenon and Pantheon-like interior is designed. Used as a customs station, then as a custodian of the gold reserves of the United States during the Civil War, it is now a museum, our first capital remember. One of their possessions, the Bible is that Washington’s inauguration (the President Bartlett that wanted to use on “The West Wing”)

used descent of the famous Wall Street, where so many have never so few have been raped (written five years ago), we entered Trinity Church, where many, to pray for the loss of their savings in the street. Built in 1696, has resisted the church many accidents on Wall Street. People are buried, Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton.

Many people we talked to the Cathedral of St. John of God to visit. Fortunately, we followed their advice. In 1892 launched, this Gothic church for more than two football fields in length. The cathedral is not yet complete, but still spectacular. Each set of Windows has a different theme: poetry, medicine, law, etc. Standing in a huge lesson in humility, you will not be missed. Around the altar chapels, which is reserved for the local artists are presenting their work. At that time the children of the cathedral school have their works on the screen.

From St. John’s is a short bus ride to Grant’s Tomb, where he and his wife in peace. The interior is similar to the grave of Napoleon in Paris. Mrs.Grant chose New York because the people were good for them, after they had become destitute. The grave at the fence of the Riverside Park overlooking the Hudson River sits.

Next to the grave is Sukaru Park, so because of the many cherry trees in the park, which were donated by the Japanese government named. The park is a statue of General Daniel Butterworth, composer of Taps (remember Berkeley Plantation, Virginia). He is on Grant’s grave looking for, you keep your eyes on this blessed land.

On the other side of the street is Riverside Church, a Presbyterian church bells of the great known for his seventy. The nave of the church is Gothic, but not so great, St. John’s. The church is part of the Union Theological Seminary, which is connected at Columbia University, also found nearby.

Stir in the train again Roosevelt in the birthplace of Theodore. It is a great brownstone at 28 East 20th Street. The original house was demolished and rebuilt according to plans of similar design was built to others in the neighborhood. Her sisters, has given instructions about living floor plans and furniture arrangements in the house, as she had selected. Roosevelt was a wealthy family, was born suffering from asthma. After losing his first wife and mother in the same week, he moved to North Dakota to find. There he found his love of nature and the independence of ordinary working people. In order to prove his masculinity, he wanted a war, which he got when the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba exploded. The Spaniards have been responsible for the decline. He formed the Rough Riders in San Antonio, Texas, and the rest is history. In his presidency, he said that the construction of the Panama Canal has been his greatest achievement. Even if he was a warmonger and empire builder, he was the first American to the Nobel Prize for the support of the Japanese war Russia will end.

A short distance south Greenwich Village, not quite the atmosphere of Bohemia, he was in the 60s. It is still a growing array of restaurants, small theaters, shops and interesting people watching. Washington Square, the quasi-official entry in the region, still his checkers and chess tables with games has not yet set in progress.

arrested by the Lincoln Center and bought tickets for the New York City Ballet matinee. Lincoln Center, 64th and Broadway is the complex of the performing arts in New York. Accompanying a beautiful fountain, a focal point in many of the films was the Metropolitan Opera House straight ahead, Avery Fisher Hall on the right side, the home of the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York, New York State Theater on the left side, home of the New York City Ballet . Just outside of the horseshoe is Julliard School of Music.

Who ballet. Concerto Barocco Program, Sinfonia, Symphony in Three Movements, and the Carnival of the Animals. The music was had by Bach, Stravinsky and Saint-Saens, and the corps de ballet under George Balanchine noted for its precision and beauty in the details and technology. Today, this shoe foot on the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago is to be returned.

old a new production of a ballet on the program today, Carnival of the Animals. The choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, a great talent at the age of twenty-nine years. He asked her to write John Lithgow, star of “Third Rock From The Sun”, a story for the ballet. Mr. Lithgow has written many books for children and jumped at the chance. His story is a boy, Oliver, locked in a natural history museum for the night. The animals come to life, but they look like people in his personal life. The costumes help animals represented and the narration brings the different parts together seamlessly. Mr Lithgow plays the role of the narrator and the part of the elephant, the school nurse Oliver. The ballet is very entertaining, both in its humor and choreography.