FOUR DAYS IN NEW YORK CITY, Guest Post by Paige Arnold

Love sculpture in New York City

A week ago, my granddaughter Paige (age 10) spent four days in New York City. Paige has a new camera and enjoyed photographing the sites of the city.  Here is a report of some of her favorite parts of the trip. 
 
I recently went to New York City for four days with my aunt and my mom. I stayed in Manhattan, not far from Washington Square.   It’s very different from where I live in California, but in a good way.   

Gramercy Park

I like it because you can walk in any given direction and you will find a Starbucks.  I also like that you can just stick out your hand and yell taxi to hail a taxi (you can go everywhere with those things).  I like how there are so many parks.  In New York there are a lot of pigeons but also a lot of other tiny birds too. 

The Laundress and the Little Prince in Greenwich Village

One day we walked to Washington Square and from there to Greenwich Village.  I liked Greenwich Village because it was very calm and the little shops looked very tiny, neat, and cozy.  There was lots of window decor.  There was a shop there called The Little Prince and it was almost engulfed in plants. Next to it there was a shop called the Laundress.  From there we walked home.  

The Flatiron Building

There are lots of apartments in New York so it is sometimes hard for you to find your apartment never having seen the outside before.

The pastrami shop

Another day , we rode the subway to Central Park, but before going to Central Park we went to a pastrami shop, and that was where my mom found out that in New York pastrami is just dry meat a third of a foot thick, sandwiched between two pieces of dry bread with nothing else. Then we walked to Central Park.  

Alice in Wonderland statue, Central Park

Mime in Central Park

There were about thirty or more stands where someone would draw a portrait or caricature of you for ten dollars.  There was a street show that was hilarious.  The people running it really knew how to coax people into giving them five to a hundred dollars.  There were many things to take pictures of.

New shoes from the Nike store

On the third day that I was there, we went shopping a lot.   Everything in general was more expensive than in California.  It was like money was worth less.  There were lots and lots of things and stores to choose from.  One of the only stores that had about the same prices as there are in California was Uniqlo.  Lots of the stores had mannequins holding and wearing tennis equipment because of the U.S. open tennis tournament hosted by New York.

The Brooklyn bridge at dusk

We also went to Brooklyn that day.  We went to a place called DUMBO.

Down

Under (the)

Manhattan

Bridge

Overpass

View of Manhattan from Brooklyn

We walked under the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge.  There were many opportunities to take pictures, especially of the bridges. 

 

At the American Museum of Natural History; Megaloceros was the largest deer to have ever lived

Another thing that I enjoyed in New York was when I did something called SoulCycle.  It’s a class where you are on a stationary bike and are pedaling for 45 minutes with an instructor telling you to stand up, or sit down with or without weights.  It is very hard but worth it. 

In New York there are lots of people that cross the street when the hand has stopped blinking, but most only do it if there are no approaching cars.  I was very sad to leave New York and I hope anyone who goes there has a great time like I did.

At Gramercy Park again