[Rhodes22-list] New York

[Andrew Collins]

Hi Ben

I haven't been following the list much but as fate would have it an errant
look brought up the Liberty island info you gave. My engineering firm just
finished a new retail and restroom facility on Liberty Island ( see
www.pacollinspe.com). So I learned a lot about the island. It is owned and
managed by the National Parks Service, but is part of NY. Originally called
Bedloe's Island, it was expanded using fill from the subway tunnel
excavations. It used to be part of NJ (and geographically still is), but was
ceded to NY and owned by the federal government since 1800. Technically an
exclave of NY in NJ, it is administratively part of NY and receives
telephone, mail and legal jursidiction from NY but power, water and sewer
from NJ! Ellis island is even worse, jurisdiction is shared between NY and
NJ.
The food is still all fried, but now the restrooms are nice and new and one
can buy souvenirs in air conditioned comfort.
Someday I would like to sail around it, but am fearful of descending the
East River from LI Sound. Maybe someday with somebody who knows the waters.

best

Andrew C
s/v Carmen

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:25 PM, BenCittadino <bencittadino at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hank;
>
> My recommendation is two fold.
>
> First, I would strongly consider driving all the way to NYC if you plan to
> stay in the city for the weekend.
> Ditch the car at your mid-town hotel Friday night and use public
> transportation to do your sight-seeing.
> There are only three ways into the city from Jersey (Holland, Lincoln, and
> the GW bridge) and if you arrive after rush/dinner hour you will have no
> trouble with any of them. Get up early Saturday and relax over a breakfast,
> put on your walking shoes and enjoy Manhattan.
>
> Second, if you are determined to get a taste of the Garden State, I would
> go
> up to Liberty State Park (Jersey City) on the Jersey side of the Hudson
> River. There are any number of adequate hotels near there (Google-Liberty
> State Park Hotels) and you can get an up-close and personal view of the
> "posterior" ("We stand behind THE LADY") of the Statue of Liberty (which,
> contrary to popular belief is located in NJ), take a boat ride out to her
> first thing in the AM from the Jersey side and visit Ellis Island then too
> (or even on Friday if you arrive early enough).
>
> Call me if you want to talk more. My wife and I will not be around that
> weekend or you might have been able to negotiate favorable rates for our
> "empty nest" bedrooms in Princeton (1 hr SW of NYC, 1 hr NE of Philly).
>
> BenCittadino
> S/V Susan Kay
> 609 896 2222
>
>
>
> Hank-5 wrote:
> >
> > Hello Rhodies,
> >
> > I have a question for you NY/NJ folks.  We're driving up from Maryland to
> > NY
> > to do the tourist thing Apr 2-4th.  We'd like to get to NY fairly early
> on
> > Sat to give us maximum time to sightsee.  Since it is close to a 5 hour
> > drive, I think our best option is to find some place in NJ to spend the
> > night on 1 Apr and then go into the city on the 2nd.
> >
> > So here is my question, can anyone recommend someplace along the
> turnpike,
> > not too far from the city where hotels won't be stupid expensive?  Any
> > charming little locations that we might enjoy?  Any ideas would be
> greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Hank
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