The title says it all, but I never made it to Queens, the Bronx, and the time I spent in Brooklyn was mainly concentrated in Williamsburg and Far Rockaway. I also went on the Staten Island ferry, passing by the statue of liberty.
On Thursday I woke up with my cousin (she had to go to her internship) and I was going running. I headed out to the Hudson river (on the west) side at 34th st. and began running downtown along the river walkway park. I was amazed by how many people were rollerblading. People in NYC love rollerblading and they even have a section blocked off in central park for roller blade dancers. Anyway, my run took me downtown and because of numerous detours i actually ended up running through the streets instead of by the river. Once I reached a certain point (about 40 minutes into my run)-I decided to stop and walk (also b/c it was becoming increasingly harder to run through the construction). I walked through john st, broad st, wall st, maiden lane, etc, passing the south harbor area. I walked uptown a bit, past the stock exchange (heavily guarded-you can't even stand on the sidewalk in front of it). Past many banks and firms, large buildings, a small park with a bull hung with some pretty big ones. I walked past Ground zero and NYU before I ran back, ate a sandwich I made at breakfast, showered, and got dressed for my first meeting (I had 3 meetings while in NYC with alumni at different corporations-I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life). Meeting number one went well, she showed me the office and what she did and afterward told me to let her know if I wanted a paid internship there next summer (of course I do-we'll see how it plays out later).
Once I arrived back at my cousin's I changed and ran to Bryant Park for yoga-which once I got there and met my cousin I realized had been cancelled because of rain-it wasn't raining then, but it had been. We decided instead to go back and eat at her place and find something to do that night. We decided to head uptown to go to bars-maybe meet a few cute guys from Columbia. Uptown we went to two bars- one with specials on domestic pitchers and another that we stayed at maybe 5 minutes because it was so narrow and crowded it wasn't worth it. We only made it that far b/c my cousin's friend wanted to head home-but after running 72 minutes and walking for hours I was really beat anyway.
Friday we woke up, ate breakfast, and then laid out on the roof. My cousin's friend was coming from out of town and we were going to be hanging out with him later in the day. Well, he somehow got off the bus he took from Vermont and decided to cross a bridge called the Manhattan bridge-for some reason he thought this took him to Manhattan-but he had already been in Manhattan so this bridge actually took him to Brooklyn. Our job was to find this friend who was horribly lost. We took the subway to Brooklyn and got off, told him to meet us at the Brooklyn Bridge and thought that he would soon arrive. A half hour later and still no friend, we began to search for him and found a really cute area DUMBO and with a huge bar (which we used the bathroom in). Finally her friend called to inform us that he was on the Brooklyn bridge and we raced to meet him there. We met him in the middle-how romantic-and crossed into Manhattan. We decided to walk downtown and take the Staten Island ferry by the Statue. After this we took the subway to central park and wandered around the park for a while. Then headed to my cousin's place ate dinner and then went back to her room and passed out (napped for a few hours).
That night we went out to Brooklyn with the intention of meeting up with my cousin's Brooklyn friends. We encountered one problem-my cousin's friend forgot his ID all he had was a student ID. Most bars won't take a student ID-it doesn't have a birth date, but we found one hole in the wall bar that did not care at all. So we chilled out, drank, and then left early again-probably around 2am-bars are open till 4.
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