Emilie: “Today! we go down to the very south of Manhattan to see the Financial District. We arrive at the Ground Zero site! and feel all the emotion that emanates from the September 11 memorial; we also admire the new towers of the World Trade Center.
Stay in New York: Friday July 15! 2016
Then! direction Wall Street. This is where we adopt our new mascot: Pioupiou (in yellow in the photos).
After this long walk! we have lunch in Battery Park (a neighborhood new zealand email list located at the southwest end of the island of Manhattan). We board the ferry there towards Staten Island to get closer to the Statue of Liberty.
On the way back! we admire the giant screens of Times Square and eat at the Hard Rock Café. After this copious meal! we do a little shopping in Times Square… until the surprise! Two limousines arrive and we board for a tour of the city; we are taken to the foot of the Empire State Building. We go up to the 80th floor to admire a magnificent panorama of New York at night.
Émilie: “Today: visit to the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art or “MET” for short. These collections contain more than two million works of art covering five thousand years of culture from prehistory i have typed few keywords and google to the present day and coming from all regions of the world. We discover Joan Miró or Keith Haring…
Then! visit and shopping in the districts of Chinatown and cuba leads Little Italy. We dine in a very good Italian restaurant before returning home.
Stay in New York: Saturday July 16! 2016
Émilie: “It’s a souvenir shopping day in the streets of New York; we start with Broadway in the trendy neighborhoods then head to the big malls (shopping centers and department stores): Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s of course!
*The MET was founded on April 13! 1870.
We watch the day fade along the High Line and devour our hot dog on Columbus Circle! one of the city’s centers! with the statue of Christopher Columbus dominating it in its center (it is surrounded by fountains designed by WET Design).