4 things you must do when visiting NYC

1. The Statue Of Liberty See Ms Liberty

The statue of liberty was a gift to America from France in 1886 ; reminding the World of the shared democratic values of the two longtime allies during that time . In bronze and added to the interior of the statue pedestal is an poem written by Emma Lazarus from greenwich village nyc, called "The New Colossus", in which The poem, songs, and souvenirs raised money for Miss Liberty to be erected and officially unveiled by President Grover Cleveland October 28th, 1886. Since men were only invited, the New York State Wome Suffage Association chartered a steambo7at and crashed the party. When you see Miss Liberty feel free to dream and take advantage of any and all opportunities presented to you to accomplish your goals and dreams in America.

2. Walk The Great Bridge - The Brooklyn Bridge "Walk that Bridge"

John and Washington Roebling were experts in designing suspension bridges in the 1800's. However the Brooklyn Bridge was not the first steel suspension bridge they built. One in particular is; the Roebling bridge which connects Ohio and Kentucky at Cincinnati. So, what is so special about the Brooklyn Bridge? Well, it connected the largest city in the United States (New York) to the third largest city (Brooklyn in the 1800's) which became history. During that time, we only had commerical steamboats which was created by Robert Fulton that went back and forth;people pushed, shoved, fraught and eventually killed each other to get on and off. So when the Roeblings came. Up with the idea; it was on. Every suspension bridge in the world has the Brooklyn Bridge in its DNA. That's why its call "The Great Bridge". Unfortunately the Roeblings did not live to see the construction begin . In 1869, during the paration John Roebling was looking for the perfect location for the Brooklyn Bridge tower, his foot got caught on the dock and was crushed by an incoming ferryboat. Since it was not a life threatening. He believed in a 1800 pseudo medicine called hydropathy (water therapy) and insisted his wounds to be treated only with water. Within three weeks he had tetanus and died. Therefore, Washington Roebling ( John Roeblings son ) and partner was left to build the Brooklyn Bridge. He and his team of workers dove below the east river looking for bedrock on the Manhattan side; in which they never found.They dig in air filled chambers far below the water surface. They did not know about the bend; they ended up incapacitated by nitrogen that expanded in their blood because they surfaced too fast. Washington ended up crippled (paralyzed)by the bends in 1879. All he could do was send notes By tapping that machine that print out codes to his wife Emily who learned how to read it she was the foreman of the job. She completed the job May 24th 1883 and they opened it up to the public May 25th 1883.

3. The High Line "You gotta walk The High Line"

What is The High Line? The high line was an New York Central Railroad that use to run on the street down eleventh and south along tenth avenues in the mid 1800's. The streets was packed with traffic, trains that stay dirty and the track were very dangerous. It was so dangerous they had to hire The West side Cowboys to wave flags so the people would know the trains were coming. Still accidents accrued and people were being killed every day. They called eleventh Ave; Death Avenue. In the 1930's The High Line became a  13 mile viaduct for freight trains and was built over and mid block over the avenues between buildings and/or right through them. It was great the freight cars shunted into the elevated loading bays of the warehouse than rolled out and then up New York Central tracks to Albany and beyond. In the 1950's the trucking  business star

started booming and the last train with frozen turkeys journeyed to Gansevoort street in 1980. Since then no one wanted or cared to pay the demolition costs; therefore The High Line just rusted away, weeds sprouted all over the rail bed and it looked beautiful just like the beauty of a Prawns Ruin. In 1990's the local community fought the proposal for demolition and now it is one of the must beautiful Parks in the world. From 14th street to 30th street with luxury buildings designed by some of the most famous architects in the world along the route which beautifies the humble Chelsea skylin

4. Central Park "You gotta have your own Central

Photo By  Zi Wong Li

In the 1800's New York Evening Post editor William Cullen Bryant and Landscape Gardner Andrew Jackson Downing started and led the public parks movement; which included the creation of"The New Central Park". They appointed Journalist Fredrick Law Olmsted (who just came back from England in 1850 and loved Birkenhead Park in Liverpool) and London Architect Calvert Vaux (who moved to America to work at the Downing Firm).When Bryant and Downing died in the tragic Steamboat accident; Vauxc and Olmsted teamed up and won the 1858 competition for the New Central Park. They called it Greensward Plan. Central Park was redesigned because New York City needed a place for people to get away from the hustle and bustle, crowded Tenment living, a place to relax and be worried free enjoying the out door atmosphere. So when you walk through Central Park a story unfolds right in front of you; it doesn't matter where you enter before every area is different. No one area is the same, that was what won the competition. Vaux and Olmsted accomplished that by importing 15million tons of bedrock into Central Park; you can go hiking in Central Park. Central Park is 843 acres of land, starts at 59th st and goes all the way up to 110th street, in Harlem.

I know you must be saying to yourself; how do I get to these places? Hop On Hop Off you will also have an Professional license Tour Guide to guide you to those destination and more. You Hop On and Off Uptown, Downtown, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Cruise around Miss liberty and Ellis Island all the way up to the United Unions. 

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