{"id":788953,"date":"2013-12-08T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T14:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=788953"},"modified":"2013-12-08T14:38:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T14:38:57","slug":"new-york-city-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2013\/12\/08\/new-york-city-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City – Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"

A red eye from Sacramento to JFK had us arriving in NYC at 8am. \u00a0Even though non of us slept well, we had enough energy to get us through the day. \u00a0We stayed at my sis in law’s apartment in Brooklyn. \u00a0She lives in a terrific neighborhood called Carroll Gardens. \u00a0A bunch of eateries, and little neighborhood markets. \u00a0Close to subways, and a great park along the waterfront within walking distance.<\/p>\n

We decided to stay in Brooklyn for the day, in case one of us needed to go home to rest.<\/p>\n

Breakfast at Cafe Luluc…<\/a><\/p>\n

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We noticed this type of parking lot everywhere. \u00a0You leave your keys with the attendant. \u00a0They stack the cars for parking…
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Walking around Brooklyn…
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Went to the New York Transit Museum<\/a>. \u00a0Covers the history of the bus, trolley, subways since the late 1800’s…
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Learning about (electrical) conductors..
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One room was dedicated to all the album cover art that contains the NYC subway stations. \u00a0They showed the full length video of Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’. \u00a0This short movie\/long video was directed by Martin Scorcese, produced by Quincy Jones, and co-starred a young Wesley Snipes! \u00a0We stayed and watched it. \u00a0Homeschool at its finest!
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The museum is located in a retired subway station. \u00a0Down below where the retired tracks are, they have about twenty old subway cars that date back to the very early 1900’s. \u00a0It’s fun to see the ads from the past…\"IMG_4658\"<\/a> \"IMG_4660\"<\/a> \"IMG_4668\"<\/a> \"IMG_4671\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We walked to the Brooklyn Bridge Park, a waterfront park that runs along the Brooklyn shoreline. \u00a0We were able to see the Statue of Liberty off in the distance, New Jersey, the Lower Manhattan skyline, and the Brooklyn Bridge…<\/p>\n

they have a nice park where the kids got to run around and play for a bit…\"IMG_4689\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Lower Manhattan skyline. \u00a0New Jersey is to the left in the distance…\"IMG_4702\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Looking out at Governor’s Island. \u00a0Behind it, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty…\"IMG_4704\"<\/a> \"IMG_4705\"<\/a> \"IMG_4707\"<\/p>\n

<\/a>The tallest building in America is this building, the Freedom Tower. \u00a0Built after 9\/11 and located next to the 9\/11 Memorial Memorial fountains, where the Twin Towers were located. \u00a0\"IMG_4718\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Brooklyn Bridge…
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\nBefore the trip, we asked the boys what would be the one thing they would want to experience while in NYC. \u00a0‘R’s response was, “eat New York pizza!” \u00a0Here is the first of three times for him (in three days \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0We went to a well known place called Grimaldi’s.<\/a>\u00a0 They have a special permit to have a coal brick oven for their pizza.
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Walking off our pizza, and crossing the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan\u2026they have a pedestrian\/bike bridge above the cars…
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“Love locks” located all throughout the bridge…
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The Empire State Building..
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\nTaking the subway home…
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\n\u2026a little Wii dancing competition before bed…
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A red eye from Sacramento to JFK had us arriving in NYC at 8am. \u00a0Even though non of us slept well, we had enough energy to get us through the day. \u00a0We stayed at my sis in law’s apartment in Brooklyn. \u00a0She lives in a terrific neighborhood called Carroll Gardens. \u00a0A bunch of eateries, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788989,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788953\/revisions\/788989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}