New York City

Aug 24, 2024
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We’ve had some pretty brief trips to New York City, and always enjoy our time there. This time we decided to do something different and made it a day trip. With the first flight of the day shortly after 6:00am, and evening flight options, we had a very full day, travelling very lightly and not paying summer hotel rates.

Aug 24

After arriving at LaGuardia on our early flight, we stopped in the lounge for some breakfast. Before leaving, we bought some discounted rush tickets to &Juliet, a favourite musical that we’d seen in Toronto, before the production moved onto Broadway. With the musical locked in, we decided to start the morning with our first visit to the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn.

Transit Museum entrance at the now-decommissioned Court St. Station

Historic ID tag for compressed air workers, directing first aid responders to take them to a "hospital lock" to treat what we now know is the bends, a decompression-related illness

Historic fare gate. Subway was 5c from 1908 until 1948 when it doubled to a dime

Another gate

Sign and tracks of the decommissioned station

One of the many historic cars in the station

Car interior with vintage ads

More of the collection of artifacts

Earlier car

Surviving BU car originally from 1907

Restored 1908 BMT Q Car 1612 C

1905 Steeple Cab Electric Locomotive

Original platform marking

Well restored car interior

How the cars displayed destination and and routing options

History of various warnings and notices

Borough Hall in downtown Brookyln

Repurposing some of the restored buildings on Montague St. in downtown Brooklyn

St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (1847)

Brooklyn Heights Promenade looking across to Manhattan

Hugh Carey Tunnel Ventilation Tower, Governors Island and the Statue of Liberty

The Brooklyn Bridge from the terrace

Under the Brooklyn Bridge with Manhattan Bridge in the background

Waiting for the boat to Manhattan under the Brooklyn Bridge

Trinity Church at the end of Wall Street

Mosaic Wall Street station signage

Street vendor cart ready to sell some hats

Summertime Broadway crowds

Bronze statue of George Cohan, a Broadway performer, author, and producer, in Duffy Square

At the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, ready to watch &Juliet

Small 9/11 memorial at one Broadway fire hall

5th Avenue's St. Patrick's Cathedral (1879)

Rockefeller Center

Prometheus Fountain in Rockefeller

After a great day in New York City, capped by another great performance of &Juliet, we took the subway and bus back to LaGuardia. With a few hours before our flight, we had a wonderful dinner and some drinks in the new Chase Sapphire Lounge. Although our original flight was delayed, we managed to move to an earlier (also delayed) flight, that got us back to Toronto almost on schedule.