Weekend in NYC

So I spent last weekend biking around NYC! Me and Alex got a bike rack and drove our to New York last Friday..

We left Baltimore around 1PM but due to an accident on I95, we only arrived at NY around 7PM! :/ We stopped to eat but we were constantly getting stuck in jams around Philly and getting thrown off the highway because the GPS was outdated.. Anyways..

I parked my car in Staten Island, in the street close to the ferry. It seemed safe and parking was free. We then caught the ferry around 7:30 to Manhattan. We took a few beautiful pictures of the statue of liberty and Elis island at sunset. Really cool!

We were really lucky, the weather was perfect. It didn't rain and temperature never dropped below 18C. Perfect temperature to bike around the city! We then biked to the hostel - the YMCA on the west side. Decent hostel, staff was kind enough to let us bring our bikes to the dorm (there was no way we were leaving our brand new bikes out in the street at night).

We wandered around Broadway until we found this cool bar..



On Saturday we biked all the way down to Battery Park, then we made our way to Chinatown to eat lunch. Almost got killed a couple of times by crazy NYC drivers but it was worth it, we ate at the Shanghai Asian Manor:


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Good food, good service, happy chinese people everywhere (which is somewhat rare in a chinese restaurant)..

After lunch we biked all the way to the brooklin bridge and back to the hotel. Biking in the middle of the streets of NYC is hard even during the weekend. That's why we decided to go back to the bike path on the west side after having some coffee at Washington Sq. So many cool things going on in that city...

At night we caught the subway down to SoHo, there are plenty of bars and restaurants south of Washington Sq park.. We went out on a few of them, Alex made some friends ;)


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Memories from that night are somewhat fuzzy.. Go figure.. I remember before that we went to this amazing bar on the top floor of the Standard hotel:


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Beware of NY prices for the drinks, one small beer: $14.. One mohito? $35.. If you think this is not excessive, my friend, you are stinky rich. But the view from that bar is just simply amazing..

Apparently Alex found out that they had the top 6th coolest bathroom in the world!! (??? lol). Wanna know why? This is a picture I took while I was in there..


We went back to the hotel around 4AM and room service woke us up around 9 the next day (bastards, it was Sunday).. We biked down to catch the Staten Island ferry and this time we caught some cool pictures of the statue of liberty..

Back to Baltimore, I realize that how boring this city is compared to New York.. But then again, New York is New York and nothing compares!