Living Our Bucket List Life

My spouse and I visited New York City on the 3-day Memorial Day weekend in May 2016. We began our mini-vacation on Friday (May 27) when we first visited the Met Cloisters museum before arriving in the city proper in order to check into our hotel, the Doubletree Times Square. We ate lunch at a Korean restaurant, Danji, followed by drinks at the Rum House. In the evening, we walked through Times Square (and stopped to listen to the Navy Band play popular cover songs) en route to an early dinner at American Whiskey, followed by the Billy Joel concert at Madison Square Garden. On our way back to the Doubletree after the concert, we finally tried the food at the Shake Shack.

On Saturday (May 28), we rode the Grayline hop-on/hop-off bus on first the Downtown loop, then on the Uptown loop. Between the two loops, we stopped at a deli near Central Park to share a BLT panini sandwich; later we enjoyed a complete lunch at Red Rooster in Harlem. On Saturday evening, we ate an elegant dinner at Dovetail and strolled through Times Square at night to admire the lights and hoopla.

On Sunday (May 29), we took the Grayline hop-on/hop-off ferry from Midtown down to the Financial District, to Brooklyn (DUMBO), and back to Midtown. We ate lunch at The Spotted Pig before walking along the Hudson River to admire the Intrepid and the Batan and the other ships in town for Fleet Week. We stopped for drinks at Mickey Spillane’s and for a slice of pizza at a neighborhood pizza shop that we ate on the street. For dinner, we traveled uptown for tapas at Boqueria on the Upper East Side.

On Monday (May 30), before we left the city, we enjoyed an early lunch at Ippudo West Side.

As always, it was another great weekend in the city!!

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