New York Must be the world’s most exciting, throbbing city, with lights flashing from every building - especially Times Square where tours start near the Hershey chocolate shop.
On previous visits I’ve been up Empire State building. And walked down the spiral Guggenheim art gallery. And taken the Staten Island Ferry. And been to the Statue of Liberty and the Ellis Island exhibition. The exhibition is being expanded to include more of the visitors’ ancestors who arrived elsewhere on the US coast, such as Native Americans, Asians and Black Africans...
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New York Must be the world’s most exciting, throbbing city, with lights flashing from every building - especially Times Square where tours start near the Hershey chocolate shop.
On previous visits I’ve been up Empire State building. And walked down the spiral Guggenheim art gallery. And taken the Staten Island Ferry. And been to the Statue of Liberty and the Ellis Island exhibition. The exhibition is being expanded to include more of the visitors’ ancestors who arrived elsewhere on the US coast, such as Native Americans, Asians and Black Africans.
Looking for something new, I took the Duck Tour on amphibious vehicles combined with the hop on hop off bus. I took the Duck Tour first, to get off at museums later. If you have trouble hearing or understanding English, ask for a tour where the guide speaks loudly, slowly and clearly, as different times have different guides. You pass Ground Zero and learn all sort of interesting things.
I got off the bus to visit the Jewish Museum which has floors on Jewish life pre WWII, and the Holocaust, and nowadays. Plus an exhibition on Irene Nemirovsky and Suite Francaise until March 22, 2009. In the shop see amusing candlesticks (such as a menorah with several Statues of Liberty) and unusual jewellery.
Nearby is the Museum of Sex. This has films about the sex life of animals (tell your straight-laced friends it’s about zoos breeding programmes). They also show how movies were censored, then sex robots in film and art, and sex instruction videos. The shop sells chocolate covered - see for yourself.
Angella (also known as Angela Lansbury, not the actress, the author - see Trusted Places profile).
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