In the heart of midtown’s high stress and high traffic stands Bryant Park NY, a much-needed escape and an oasis to take a moment to refresh and watch the world go by but in the cooler months it’s home to the Bryant Park Winter Village. Bryant Park NY is as close to the middle of Manhattan as you can get. Bordered by Fifth and Sixth Avenues and 40th and 42nd...
A Chichen Itza tour has to be the top of any things to do in Cancun list. Leave the car and enjoy a full day of Mexican experiences when you take a Chichen Itza tour. Not ones to normally embrace bus tours, we found an excellent option that took in regional Yucatan, the ruins of Chichen Itza, and the Ik-Kil Cenote. A Mayan adventure without the sacrifices. Built...
Everybody’s favorite action hero and archeologist, Indiana Jones spent half of his movies exclaiming, “It belongs in a museum!”. But how many of the things you use on a daily basis would you expect to be found by the archaeologists of the future? Luckily you needn’t wait for posterity. There’s a museum made up of the now. The Cooper Hewitt is New York’s very own...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known more commonly as The Met is one of the world’s great museums. The use of art in The Met’s title is loose. This is a serious museum. Sure, it has an incredible collection of Van Goghs, rooms of Degas, and many pieces that will have you thinking – wow, I didn’t even know that was in America! But this place is palatial. Within...
Just the name, Little Italy NY, conjures up images of mafia Godfathers, bottles of vino, great food, and Italian flags. In many ways, all of these things are true, albeit stereotypical. But the Little Italy of today is a shadow of its formal self. Now more of a tourist attraction than a community, the real Italian enclaves are to be found in places like Howard Beach...
Staten Island Ferry is proof that visiting New York shouldn’t cost you an arm and a leg. Staten Island. The fifth borough is almost an afterthought for most New Yorkers. It’s probably more that it’s out of mind than out of sight. There’s more green space and cheap rent, but probably a little more crime than gentrified Manhattanites would want to be around...
Boston to Salem is an easy day trip by train where you can discover the roots of witchcraft in New England. Boston to Salem was surprisingly close to get to and it was somewhere we had always wanted to check out. Upon visiting Boston for the second time, without the knee-deep snow of last February, it seemed the perfect moment. In fact the weather was in no way...