What else in New York?
Vacation: Aug 2nd - Aug 16th: Part 2
Well, I arrived in Middletown, New York which is a 2 hour train ride away from New York City. I arrived on Tuesday evening around 7:30 pm. I was beat but it was a great chance to chat with my second cousin Naveena, and her friends from school. We had some spicy Indian food and went to bed around 1 am. Wednesday, was the day to drive in my rented Ford Focus 2006 to Staten Island in NYC. It was not too bad driving in as it was not rush hour. It took around an hour and 1/2 to get to Staten Island. Checked out Wagner College where Naveena goes to school. It was off to paid parking at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and the 1000 meter dash to make the ferry with 10 seconds to spare. The Manhattan subway system greated us baking us with internal tempertures greater than 100 degrees. The train to Brooklyn did not take too long forunately. Got out of the subway station and we were greeted by a pedestrain crossing light that had the middle finger up to us. Someone had put black tape on the other fingers of the hand. Welcome to Brooklyn, I guess. Met up with Naveena friends again and took a short bus ride to Coney Island. The rides were wonderful made extra scary cause they are so old. We went on this ride that looks like a octopus. The DJ was playing some great hip-hop and was basically spinning the ride to move it in all sorts of directions. It was a blast. The funnel cake in Coney Island was as hard as a rock and the powdered sugar was blowing in the wind over us made us look like snowpeople. We avoided the Ferris Wheel cars with swinging cars that drop down a level while going round. Took the stationary cars and the view was magnificent of the beach and of this corner of Brooklyn.
It was time to leave (around 5 pm now) Brooklyn and head back to Manhattan. Bid goodbye to Naveena's friends who live in Brooklyn and rode the subway back to "the city" (Manhattan) as the locals call it. Grabbed a Naan bread sandwich by asking the Indians selling stuff in Manhattan where you get one of these awesome spicy chicken/spinach sandwiches. Had dinner in a neat little Indian cafe and then my cousin had a tickets to a comedy show at a nice lounge somewhere. The comedy was great and I did not mind the two drink minimum as the show was free. Sat in the back of the lounge cause I did not want them to make fun of me. They made a lot of great jokes about racial stereotypes. You had to be there. After enjoying comedy for 2 hours took the train to mid-town Manhattan to find the famous chicken and rice with its secret white sauce. This falvored rice was the bomb! Brought four boxes back to Middletown, NY. Waiting in the line for 45 minutes to get the chicken and rice at 11:30 pm. This chicken and rice stand had 2 vans bringing refills of chicken and rice. At $5 a box it was a steal in NYC. The next mission impossible was to find a $3 T-shirt that said "I Love NY" for my friend Joe so it was on the subway again to Times Square. Got the Tee just before the street vendor closed at 12:30 am. Took the subway back to the Staten Island Ferry terminal in lower Manhattan. The subway driver kept stopping for no reason and so we missed the Ferry by a minute. Boy, were the passengers mad. It would be another 1/2 hour wait before the next free ferry arrived. Arrived in Staten Island again at 2 am. It took me 2 hours to drive back to Middletown, NY cause I really don't like night driving on unfamilar roads. Had to dodge a few deer near Middletown but made it back safely.
Well, I arrived in Middletown, New York which is a 2 hour train ride away from New York City. I arrived on Tuesday evening around 7:30 pm. I was beat but it was a great chance to chat with my second cousin Naveena, and her friends from school. We had some spicy Indian food and went to bed around 1 am. Wednesday, was the day to drive in my rented Ford Focus 2006 to Staten Island in NYC. It was not too bad driving in as it was not rush hour. It took around an hour and 1/2 to get to Staten Island. Checked out Wagner College where Naveena goes to school. It was off to paid parking at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and the 1000 meter dash to make the ferry with 10 seconds to spare. The Manhattan subway system greated us baking us with internal tempertures greater than 100 degrees. The train to Brooklyn did not take too long forunately. Got out of the subway station and we were greeted by a pedestrain crossing light that had the middle finger up to us. Someone had put black tape on the other fingers of the hand. Welcome to Brooklyn, I guess. Met up with Naveena friends again and took a short bus ride to Coney Island. The rides were wonderful made extra scary cause they are so old. We went on this ride that looks like a octopus. The DJ was playing some great hip-hop and was basically spinning the ride to move it in all sorts of directions. It was a blast. The funnel cake in Coney Island was as hard as a rock and the powdered sugar was blowing in the wind over us made us look like snowpeople. We avoided the Ferris Wheel cars with swinging cars that drop down a level while going round. Took the stationary cars and the view was magnificent of the beach and of this corner of Brooklyn.
It was time to leave (around 5 pm now) Brooklyn and head back to Manhattan. Bid goodbye to Naveena's friends who live in Brooklyn and rode the subway back to "the city" (Manhattan) as the locals call it. Grabbed a Naan bread sandwich by asking the Indians selling stuff in Manhattan where you get one of these awesome spicy chicken/spinach sandwiches. Had dinner in a neat little Indian cafe and then my cousin had a tickets to a comedy show at a nice lounge somewhere. The comedy was great and I did not mind the two drink minimum as the show was free. Sat in the back of the lounge cause I did not want them to make fun of me. They made a lot of great jokes about racial stereotypes. You had to be there. After enjoying comedy for 2 hours took the train to mid-town Manhattan to find the famous chicken and rice with its secret white sauce. This falvored rice was the bomb! Brought four boxes back to Middletown, NY. Waiting in the line for 45 minutes to get the chicken and rice at 11:30 pm. This chicken and rice stand had 2 vans bringing refills of chicken and rice. At $5 a box it was a steal in NYC. The next mission impossible was to find a $3 T-shirt that said "I Love NY" for my friend Joe so it was on the subway again to Times Square. Got the Tee just before the street vendor closed at 12:30 am. Took the subway back to the Staten Island Ferry terminal in lower Manhattan. The subway driver kept stopping for no reason and so we missed the Ferry by a minute. Boy, were the passengers mad. It would be another 1/2 hour wait before the next free ferry arrived. Arrived in Staten Island again at 2 am. It took me 2 hours to drive back to Middletown, NY cause I really don't like night driving on unfamilar roads. Had to dodge a few deer near Middletown but made it back safely.
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