Art Guide New York
Is this worth it?
I’m going on an 8th grade end of the year trip to New York that costs $500.
-This includes 2 nights and 3 days at the 4 star Roosevelt Hotel(including security)
-cost of the ride on the bus
-ticket to “The Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway
-breakfasts and dinners
-admission to Bronx Zoo
-admission to Museum of Natural History
-admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
-admission to the Top of The Rock Observatory
-ferry ride past Statue of Liberty on the way to visit and explore Ellis Island
-full day guided sightseeing tour of lower manhattan sites include:
Battery Park
Financial District
Wall Street
Ground Zero
Chinatown
Little Italy
Greenwich Village
By the way I live in Quincy, Massachusetts, a few minutes from Boston. I can go to New York for only $15 on bus. Just to let you know
This is a great itinerary. The hotel is nice – it’s only a few blocks from Grand Central Station. While you’re in the lower Manhattan area, hope they go to the World Financial Center – get ice cream at Custard Beach – they have incredible flavors – my favorites are lemon and creme brulee. They change flavors every day. I always tell visitors to try New York pizza, but, if you’ve been to Regina’s in Boston, don’t bother. Boston is the only place outside of Italy that has better pizza than New York. At the Metropolitan Museum,make sure to see the Gubbio Studio. It’s a fifteenth century library in a duke’s palace. As you walk into this room, you see cabinets, closets, bookcases filled with books, musical instruments, scientific instruments, all made of little pieces of inlaid wood. You are not going to believe it when you get close – it’s flat! This should take your breath away – I can’t describe it. And the museum hardly advertises it. It’s on the first floor, north of the medieval sculpture court.
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/vi…
Next favorite are the weapons and armor:
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/de…
If you’re doing souvenir shopping, save it for Chinatown – great prices on little stocking stuffer kinds of things.
Have a great time, and since you can get here for only $15, come back again.
Inside New York’s Art World: Chuck Close, 1978
Themocracy