Few minutes in the city

with a 4 and a half hour layover in newark, i had to make the most of it by jetting into the city. while i am not exactly homesick for the big apple yet, i did want to get my fix. i was absolutely elated to emerge from penn station onto an overcrowded 7th avenue. back in the 1930s, before commercial air travel, penn station was a traveller's first gateway to nyc. i experienced that entrance for the first time yesterday. it was my first jaunt into nyc as a visitor.

arriving in midtown at 3pm, we walked through H&M, up 7th ave past my old work neighborhood, to bryant park. too bad there wasn't enough time to skate at the new icerink.



we met up with charu & tom for coffee and gifts at the Coliseum bookstore's cafe. it was perfect that we got to catch up even for a little bit - just under one hour. at 4:05 we had to jump onto the subway and we made our newark train with only 3 minutes to spare.

it was nice to be able to plan the timing thanks to the Airtrain.