Get your bike lets go take a bike ride. central park is now going carless so, safer for bikers and children.
Yes i do feel bad for the horses. The tourist really love the horse and carriage rides through the park and around the park in New York city manhattan..
Lets enjoy the music and the food.
I visited The National museum of the American Indian on a hot and sunny afternoon around 2pm.
On the side of the museum
The museum store. when you first walk in this is what you see. Beautiful plates and hand painted art.
I found this carved out sculpture to be very beautiful. Looks like an owl to me.
This is actually inside past the airport style medal detectors.Across the hall is the beginning of the exhibit. Consisting of only 2 floors.
This Rewe pole of the shaman reminded me of the one we saw in the MET.
A wedding dress worn by Inshata-Theumba of the Omaha tribe.
“The indian Question” from Inshata 1880 essay
The children visiting where scared of this bull.
On June 26, my urban tourism and I took a walk down lower Manhattan. To get there I had to take the R train to Whitehall Street or if you prefer you can take the one to the south ferry train station. When I arrived I had to walk 2 blocks to the south ferry to meet with my class. We started down Water Street, looking at the historic buildings. The Watson house was one still standing built in the 1800s designed by John Macomb, now a Roman Catholic Church. The shrine of the first American born saint Elizabeth Ann Sutton was also apart of the structure.
We walked to one of my favorite structures from this trip Francine’s tavern. Francis tavern is one of the most historical buildings in Manhattan; it’s where Washington gave his farewell speech to the officers in the continental army. According to the plaque fraunces tavern is also listed as a memorial and on the national register of historic places in 1719. I loved that Fraunces Tavern was both a museum and a restaurant, when I walked inside it felt like I was back in the 1700’s. It felt as if the door was even the original door and even looking from the outside in was exiting. It felt like I was walking through history, where many notable people have come. I’m looking forward to coming back and hopefully touring the museum and having lunch.
We circled back to the old customhouse, which is now The National Museum of the American Indian apart of the Smithsonian institution; the world’s largest museum and research complex. Across from the museum is a park, New York City’s oldest park, according to NYCgovparks.org, this park is famously known as a place where native Americans where met by Peter Minuit to discuss the selling of Manhattan. It was also used as a place where people would sell and buy livestock. In the park stood a statue of George Washington, and the crowns on the gate where stolen. When we walked down Broadway past the park we spotted the charging bull statue. To me the little girl in front of the Bull symbolizes strength and not being afraid against the extremely intimidating bull that to me symbolizes life or a cause you care deeply about.
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The federal Hall and The New York Stock Exchange stood boldly on Wall Street. I decided to into the federal Hall building to look around, it pretty empty, besides 2 rooms on the corner containing information about how the Hall came to be. There was also an interesting art piece by Brian Tolle, symbolizing a distorted structure of 17thcentury Dutch house. We moved up to the Trinity church, and the first thing I thought was that it was very brown, but it stood out. When we saw it from the Federal hall national memorial, everyone was curious about this church. In the churchyard we saw many graves of officers from the continental army and the navy original members, like Richard Montgomery and Alexander Hamilton. We finally reached the 9/11 memorials, which I’ve never visited before. I really loved the concepts of the two pools carved into the shape of the building and where they stood exactly. I feel like water symbolizes a connection, in which we will always have with the deaths of thousands who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. After spending time there we went into the oculus. It was very beautiful symbolizing a bird in flight. But to turn it into a mall, where many people lost their lives is very unattached from the 9/11 memorial. Some of our class left but us who left, walked to our last stop, Brookfield Place. It is beautiful on the outside, looks like it is made out of glass. It is also a shopping mall; I still don’t understand why we needed two. But nonetheless I enjoyed my time here; we explored the outside, which was a boating dock for the prettiest looking sailing boats. We decided that we would part ways now and get something to eat, So many choices for food at Brookfield I could not make up my mind. Eventually I decided on a pork sandwich, I made the right decision.
Origami
Melissa’s shoe store in soho
Emily cracking up in front of the MET. We where excited
My urban tourism class and I took a trip to the New York Metropolitan Museum on the most beautiful day. We choose this museum because the Met is a huge tourist attraction. I learned of the Met museum before my urban tourism class. finally visited with my sports and recreation class last semester. The admission price for me was heavenly, free, just how i like it. However, because most of the people that visit are tourist and not residence of New York, according to the Met website they may have to pay; $25 dollars for adults $17 dollars for seniors; $12 for students; and free for Members, Patrons, and children under 12 and the good thing is you can spend the whole day there if you wanted. The museum fee, I agree it may be too much money but I believe that it is worth it and it is crucial for the survival of this beautiful museum. I feel that everyone has the right to see art and experience the feelings that it brings but to other residents I’m sorry, but the people that can’t afford it in New York can still come in for free. When I went to the museum I took the 5 train from Flatbush Avenue and got off on 86 street and walked about 12 minutes from the train. You can also take the 4 train if thats a better route, but eventually you’ll be doing some walking. If not take an uber, or a yellow cab.
sitting On the sides of the fountain
On June 19th, we took a tour with one of our own Robert who is the food and beverage manager of all of the restaurants at the Met. One of the most important things he said was how he actually had a life working at the Met and his life wasn’t all about work. I love that, because I’n the Hospitality world you can always expect to work over time and there’s almost never a time of relaxation. I got the idea that his work can be stressful sometimes with unexpected events happening all around him. Like If some of his team calls out and he as to figure out how to manage the extra work, and wether he should pull someone from other places in the Met. He briefly talked about the retraining of his staff and it sounded stressful, although he did sound very happy. overall I enjoyed the tour because it gave another eye opening to another side of the hospitality industry, which I never thought about as a career option. I loved that we got to tour the rooftop bar because when I first visited the Met I only discovered the cafe downstairs in the basement. I never knew there where so options, no wonder people can spend all day there.
upstairs at the rooftop bar
The annual visitors according to metmuseum.org is seven million people. While we where there I seen many different diversity of people. There where a lot of tours going on, and a lot of people. I felt very at home, I was engaging with our tour guide Susan and the rest of my class seemed to be very comfortable. We where all asking questions, taking pictures and where very engaged.
The focuses of the collection inside the Met is a mix of contemporary, realism, sculptures, Impressionism and so much more. The highlight to me was the heavenly bodies fashion and the catholic expression exhibition because that was the first thing I seen from the front before walking in. The exhibition was low in light, and I loved it because it bought out the diamonds on the dresses better. I loved the Victorian style dresses and wish I spent more time there.
The museums website, is very accessible. I can find everything I need.theres a visit section where you can plan your visit to the museum. The events button where we can find current events and programs at the Met. The learning button where very different age group can explore and see what people in there age group will be most interested in. The store button where we can find clothes, jewelry, books, mugs etc. if I wanted to join and give, oh there’s a button for that. We can see all past and present and future exhibitions from the exhibitions button. It was definitely user friendly, they provide a lot of information.
I really loved the Vincent Van Gogh Wheat field with caresses oil canvas. Susan told us that this painting could never be done the same, and was the last painting he did before going into a crazy home. i loved that i could see movement in the clouds and the fields. After learning a bit more about Van Gogn i love the painting even more. I believe that the tour helped me to appreciate art more because now i feel like i understand the artist. Everything as a back story and i admire that about the sculptures that we saw and the many paintings and some of which the artist completed within months or years.
Thomas Hart Benton – America Today. This painting is the city activities and dancehall
velazquez-oil on canvas. this is valasquez slave painted in rome. I love that this painting shows strength and status even though he was a slave. shows that you didn’t need to be rich or of high status to show elegance and power.
The view at dumbo park is so beautiful.
sunset near the playground.
Lets take a ride on Jane’s carousel.
My urban Tourism class and I took a little tour of Dumbo and Domino Park on June 12th, 2018. I was exited to be going on the tour because I really loved what Dumbo has morphed itself into. I often visited for some alone time and I like to come with my friends, we would have BBQ’s and picnics and it was also perfect at night during the summer for a date. Even though I’ve walked there many it was a great to learn about the area, now I appreciate the area more. To find out there was a new Park just a boat ride away, I was ecstatic to experience the newest edition, Domino Park.
The history of Dumbo dates back to the 80’s, when the area was mostly used for shipping and docking and it also contained warehouses and housed those very workers. Dumbo stands as Down under Manhattan bridge overpass, a name in which embodies gentrification at its best. I loved that while we where walking professor. Phillips mentioned that most of the buildings have been preserved and recognized as landmarks. That’s very important because we should always have knowledge of our history; we need to keep those roots alive, it is what makes us stand out from the rest. Tourists are attracted to culture and a place full of history, curiosity and knowing that wow I stood where this person stood is exciting. Dumbo to me is stuck between the past and the present and tourist are in love with that. The Eagles warehouse now apartments was the most beautiful, when I walked next to it after finding out that it was built in 1894 for the local Brooklyn eagles newspaper my excitement meter shot up to 90. When we walked on, closer to the water, pass the riverside café and the famous ice-cream shop The Brooklyn ice-cream factory I realized, Just like the architecture I noticed that the people that where in the park were also very diverse. I saw, a lot of children on trips, so many tourist speaking many different languages; kids on play dates, adults on play dates, couples, photographers, artists, joggers, and dog lovers.
We brought our tickets for the NYC ferry, and paid 5.50 for the ride to Domino Park. I had the most fun on the deck of the ferry; I enjoyed the breeze and the 80-degree weather. Before arriving we admired manhattans skyline and chatted with some of the tourist. From the ferry we could see the domino sugar factory, I wish it still smelled like sugar but it closed in 2004. Two trees management wanted the park as a public space to preserve the history and provide someplace where residents can relax. They will be going forward with the proposal to turn the refinery into housing units and office space. Upon learning that I don’t know if, that was what I wanted to hear. But overall, I loved the vibe; it was colorful and full of life. The park included machinery from the factory, I found very cool because it pulled the park together with the factory. The factory didn’t feel alone, but apart of the massive Kent waterfront park. When we continued to walk down the waterfront, we saw a fast food Mexican restaurant called Tacocina.
Tacocina was calling my name and I’m sure everyone one of my classmates and my professor too. Before we went and buried ourselves in guacamole and a variety of tacos. We took some pictures in front of the domino sugar refinery, and then more pictures. We had to wait on a long line, but to me my 4.50 shrimp and chayote Tartar taco was delicious, just expensive. I’m glad I got to enjoy Domino Park with my class, now I can bring everyone here with me.
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