24 hours in New York City

People asked me “ How did The Big Apple treat you?”, and I couldn’t find the appropriate word. Well you gotta be there to know what its like. Coz how would you possibly describe this?

We stayed in Queens in LaGuardia Plaza Hotel, which was right next to the LaGuardia Airport. We reached at 2 in the afternoon and without wasting any time left our hotel to see New York. Frankly, you need a week to see New York and definitely more than that to actually know the city. The first place we went to was Grand Central.

Statue of Liberty

On the way to the Statue

9/11 Memorial

Grand Central

I hate to travel as a typical tourist, visit places that top the Google list and are always crowded with people. But I was happy being one this time. We visited all of those, but the two that topped my list were Top of the Rock and the all so famous Times square.

                                                    Top of the rock -

 It’s the top floor 
(70^th floor) of the Rockefeller centre.
We reached there around 5:30 pm. Since there was a long que , we had to stand for 15min and got our tickets for 6:40pm. Well what do I say about perfect timing!! Those buildings, the water, the bridges, the Empire State, the lights and the orange-blue sky.



We got to see New York in the day light and the glimmer of the night. Among the hundreds of photographers trying to capture their best shot, were a few people who were actually enjoying the place watching those uncountable stars on land. Quite romantic I would say ;) 

 

Times Square -

 Just after the depressing moment of departing from the Top of the Rock, we left for Times Square.One moment a bunch of school kids are dancing right on top of the stairs, the other moment there’s a couple getting clicked who landed there just after taking their wedding vows, the third moment there was a naked lady alluring people to take pictures with her just for 5$. So, you know what I mean.

This is one place where you’d find something interesting every second, to distract your attention from what you found to be surprisingly amazing the previous moment. It’s just like how you see in movies. The lights, the people, the noise, the taxis and the crazy stuff happening on the streets. Everything!!

I took some time to digest what i saw. Stayed there till 12:30am and then returned to the hotel in a NYC Taxi!! Okay, it isn’t that interesting to sit in a taxi, but i always wanted to sit in one of those Yellow taxis.So, I enjoyed that too :)

The next day we left in the morning and visited the Statue of Liberty. Got confused as to which ferry to take. But finally found the right one. The Statue was huge, didn't get time to get in the monument though. After the cruise ride, we went to the 9/11 Memorial and then straight to the Airport.


Important things to keep in mind-

Top of the Rock- Reach there atleast an hour before you wanna go to the top (if you don't have the city pass). Carry something warm.
Ticket-27$ onwards (adults)

Statue of Liberty-There are a lot of boats going there to different islands but only one takes you to the statue- Statue cruises. Its the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island cruise which you get from inside the Battery park. 
Ticket- 17 $ per person