TBA
Day 1: TBA#
- Arrival at Newark Liberty International Airport — one of the three airports serving New York alongside JFK and LaGuardia, located about 25 km from midtown Manhattan on the New Jersey side
- Train connection via the NJ Transit app to Penn Station — far more practical and affordable than a cab from Newark
- Exit at Madison Square Garden, New York’s premier sports arena opened in 1968 (the fourth iteration of the building on that site), home of the Knicks (NBA) and the Rangers (NHL)
- Walk through the streets of NY to reach the hotel
- Hotel in East Village at the Moxy NYC East Village
- Walking tour: NoHo (North of Houston Street), the Flatiron Building — a 1902 masterpiece by Daniel Burnham, 87 m tall, whose triangular shape results from the intersection of Broadway and 5th Avenue at 23rd Street — and Times Square, named after the New York Times which moved there in 1904
Day 2: TBA#
- Typical East Village facades — a neighborhood once known for its anarchist and punk scene, now one of Manhattan’s most vibrant
- Washington Square Park and its squirrel show — at the heart of Greenwich Village, the park is dominated by the Washington Arch: first built in wood in 1889 for the centennial of George Washington’s inauguration, then rebuilt in white marble in 1892 by architect Stanford White
- West Village, the bohemian extension of Greenwich Village with its cobblestone streets and red-brick townhouses — a favorite neighborhood of artists and celebrities since the 1960s
- Walking past the bar Fedora, which makes me think of Red Hat
- Meatpacking District — in the 1990s the neighborhood still had over 250 slaughterhouses and cold-storage warehouses; today one of Manhattan’s trendiest areas
- High Line for a guided tour cancelled due to rain — a former freight rail line built in the 1930s to serve West Side factories, converted into a 2.3 km elevated park opened in 2009
- I visit the High Line on my own, with beautiful views over the Hudson and Manhattan’s rooftops
- Street mural of Mother Teresa and Gandhi
- Shopping at Chelsea Market — the former Nabisco industrial complex where the Oreo cookie was first made in 1912, now a two-level food hall
- Striking modern architecture
- Hudson Yards and the Vessel, a monumental copper sculpture designed by Thomas Heatherwick, unveiled in 2019: 46 m tall, 154 interconnected flights of stairs, 2,500 steps
Day 3: TBA#
- Renting a Citi Bike — New York’s bike-share network launched in 2013, operated by Lyft, with over 25,000 bikes available across the city
- Brooklyn Bridge: designed by John Roebling and built between 1869 and 1883 — Roebling died in a construction accident before completion, and his son Washington finished the project; the first suspension bridge in the world to use steel cables, 486 m between the two towers
- Downtown Brooklyn (sculpture of a finger pointing to the sky)
- Fulton Ferry
- Dumbo — acronym for “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass” — and the famous Washington Street perspective where the Brooklyn Bridge appears framed between two red-brick buildings, one of the most photographed views in New York
- Empire Fulton Ferry at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge
- Times Square
- Domino Park, the former Domino Sugar refinery (1882–2004) converted into a public park in 2018 with a direct view of Manhattan, and a stop at Other Half Brewing, a Brooklyn microbrewery founded in 2014, renowned for its heavily hopped IPAs and limited releases
- View from the South Street Seaport, a 17th-century historic port district where tall ships once docked, with its restored brick warehouses
- The Battery, a 10-acre park at the southern tip of Manhattan — I spot the Statue of Liberty in the distance, gifted by France in 1886 and standing 93 m tall including its pedestal
- West Thames Park and the 9/11 Memorial: two vast reflecting pools set in the exact footprint of the Twin Towers, inaugurated on September 11, 2011, lined with the names of the 2,977 victims engraved in bronze
- Back for a hot dog at Crif Dogs in East Village — and discovering the speakeasy PDT (Please Don’t Tell), regularly ranked among the world’s 50 best bars, accessible only by picking up the phone in a booth hidden inside the restaurant
- Continue cycling
- Train departure to Boston
