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What are your favorite places to explore in/around NYC with the exception of Manhattan? Thinking of ideas like Coney Island, City Island, Dumbo, Wave Hill, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Rockaway Beach, Governor's Island.
Covid era-friendly (mostly outdoors) and requirement to get there by car is ok. Just outside NYC is ok as well, like close-by Westchester.
Yes it's nice taking a ferry somewhere, even if just RT to Staten Island. Nice at night too.
Coney Island and the NY Aquarium is nice for a change of scenery. You need a bit of money for the rides though especially if you're taking kids.
Never been to Rockaway but my daughters prefer it to the beach at Coney Island.
Henry Hudson Drive/River Road along the base of the Palisades is nice too if you bicycle or want to do a long walk. It's just across the GW Bridge and goes under the bridge. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-...est-fall-road/
Bergen County:
Easy hiking along the Palisades / Hudson River waterfront
Field Station: Dinosaurs if you're into dinosaurs, have kids into dinosaurs, or like kitsch
Might as well eat some great Korean food while there
Lower Westchester:
Untermeyer Gardens in Yonkers
Yonkers Raceway if you want to see some horses racing (I think it's open, but not sure)
Bronx:
Parkchester
Riverdale Park (very nature-y park; can pick up a stellar pastrami or tongue sandwich at Liebman's on the way there if going by subway and foot or own vehicle)
Woodlawn Cemetery
Queens:
Queens County Farm Museum (working farm museum)
Queens Zoo, especially the aviary, but I find it's only worth it if not paying full price as it's quite small
Fort Totten Park
First Cavalry Cemetery, lots of historic figures, great views
Forest Park
Staten Island:
The Greenbelt and its many and various parks
Snug Harbor (Tuscan and Suzhou gardens)
Fort Wadsworth
Brooklyn:
Prospect Park, standard answer, but it is nice
Greenwood Cemetery, maybe the best cemetery in NYC to walk around
Nassau:
Belmont horse races, maybe still open
Long Beach boardwalk, not sure what beach hours are like now in the off-season; Jordan Lobster Farm is somewhat nearby and is tasty and outdoors
Jones Beach State Park (you will pay for parking)
Old Westbury Gardens
Hempstead House
Planting Fields Arboretum
My favorite thing use to be to take a train to a stop I never got on/off at before and explore it. That and running is how I know the 4 boro's so well. I skipped Staten Island
My favorite thing use to be to take a train to a stop I never got on/off at before and explore it. That and running is how I know the 4 boro's so well. I skipped Staten Island
a poem for you:
Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1892-1950
The railroad track is miles away,
And the day is loud with voices speaking,
Yet there isn't a train goes by all day
But I hear its whistle shrieking.
All night there isn't a train goes by,
Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming,
But I see its cinders red on the sky,
And hear its engine steaming.
My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing;
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.
Only worthy day trips are at least an hour outside NYC borders. I have been going to Putnam county a lot, and Conn. I like to eat steamed burgers in Conn.
Only worthy day trips are at least an hour outside NYC borders. I have been going to Putnam county a lot, and Conn. I like to eat steamed burgers in Conn.
OMG! Have you had a Ted's steamed burger?
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