New York, New York
Hello Everyone,
Rebecca and I have finally unpacked and installed ourselves in New York. We thought you might like to hear a little detail and see some pictures. It's been a huge chore to move but we are glad to be here. On June 11 we packed up our plants and our cats into a U-Haul, closed out our Madison home, and drove to New York. We stayed at Rebecca's parents' apartment for about two weeks (they were away on vacation) while we closed in NY and moved in. Our new apartment is a loft space in an old industrial building, c. 1909. The building is on Broadway right across from City Hall Park, which is a gorgeous old park, with a beautiful fountain, the Old City Hall (where the Mayor has his office) and the Education Building (also a historic building) right in the park. Just East across the park is the Brooklyn Bridge. For all you Monopoly fans, the closet subway stop is "Park Place," which is two blocks south of us. We are about 4 blocks from Ground Zero, North of Wall St., in the SE corner of the neighborhood called Tribeca. If you walk West about 4 blocks you reach Battery Park and one of the best public schools in the city. To the Northeast, about 15 mins. walk and you are in Chinatown and then Little Italy. Another world. Tribeca is an old warehouse neighborhood, with many beautiful cast iron buildings; today it is pretty mixed, with some very high-end loft conversions and celebrities and fancy restaurants but also a lot of banks and overstock retailers and bodegas and so forth -- in short a real slice of NYC life. Great subway connections all over. To get to Rutgers, we will catch a PATH train at the WTC site, which runs every 5-10 minutes and takes 22 min. to get to Newark, where we pick up New Jersey transit to New Brunswick. About 50 minutes, and very easy.
Rebecca and I have finally unpacked and installed ourselves in New York. We thought you might like to hear a little detail and see some pictures. It's been a huge chore to move but we are glad to be here. On June 11 we packed up our plants and our cats into a U-Haul, closed out our Madison home, and drove to New York. We stayed at Rebecca's parents' apartment for about two weeks (they were away on vacation) while we closed in NY and moved in. Our new apartment is a loft space in an old industrial building, c. 1909. The building is on Broadway right across from City Hall Park, which is a gorgeous old park, with a beautiful fountain, the Old City Hall (where the Mayor has his office) and the Education Building (also a historic building) right in the park. Just East across the park is the Brooklyn Bridge. For all you Monopoly fans, the closet subway stop is "Park Place," which is two blocks south of us. We are about 4 blocks from Ground Zero, North of Wall St., in the SE corner of the neighborhood called Tribeca. If you walk West about 4 blocks you reach Battery Park and one of the best public schools in the city. To the Northeast, about 15 mins. walk and you are in Chinatown and then Little Italy. Another world. Tribeca is an old warehouse neighborhood, with many beautiful cast iron buildings; today it is pretty mixed, with some very high-end loft conversions and celebrities and fancy restaurants but also a lot of banks and overstock retailers and bodegas and so forth -- in short a real slice of NYC life. Great subway connections all over. To get to Rutgers, we will catch a PATH train at the WTC site, which runs every 5-10 minutes and takes 22 min. to get to Newark, where we pick up New Jersey transit to New Brunswick. About 50 minutes, and very easy.
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