Our travels

Two years ago, here on the blog, we wrote: "We observe  that New York from year to year is becoming more and more friendly to its residents and tourists. With each stay here we discover new investments which change this city into a metropolis where people do not only work but also relax and breathe...

Greenwich Village

The famous Greenwich Village, West Village, or otherwise in short the Village - in the eighteenth century was a separate village, hence the current name. Greenwich Village also includes Christopher Street and the pub "Stonewall Inn", ie land on which erupted in 1969, so-called Stonewall riots - rio...

Washington Square

One of the places with a long history full of dramatic events, and now a bright and cheerful recreation place is the Washington Square Park.  Its central point is the Washington Square. At the centre of the square there are two main attractions: a large fountain and  the  Washington Arch - commemo...

Brooklyn - one of 5 NYC boroughs

There are five boroughs in New York. 1. Manhattan 2. Brooklyn 3. Queens 4. The Bronx 5. Staten Island. Each has a lot to offer to its residents nd tourists. During a one-week visit it is impossible to visit all of them. We make choices. There are many reasons to go to Brooklyn. Walking over the Bro...

Queens - the borough where we are staying

We accept the invitation of Ani's - professor of sociology (an Argentinian naturalized in the USA) and Steve - professor of geology (New Yorker with blood and bones) and accomodate ourselves in the guest room of their apartment in Queens. A thirty-minute express subway ride from downtown Manhattan. ...

Freedom Tower and Museum 09/11

It is everyone's duty (of those who visit New York City) to visit the newly open museum called "Museum 09/11".  It does not seam appropriate to us to additionally comment on the events of September 11, 2001, but the visit to the site of that  unimaginable tragedy, in a way naturally raises concerns...

Manhattan - Broadway

After a short stay at our friends’ - Terenia and Leszek - in Pennsylvania, we went together with them and Lidia (another friend of ours from the time of our study) to New York, to enjoy together another successful musical on Broadway - "Kinky Boots". The way into New York, and exactly to our hotel,...