The Manhattan Sites

Noelle and I woke up early this morning, 5:45 to be exact for a drive north on the New Jersey Turnpike to Elizabeth, New Jersey. We would park the car in our hotel's parking lot, then walk a few blocks to the North Elizabeth train station where we would hop on a train to Penn Station. Well, our plan went off without a hitch. We were in Manhattan by 9:30. At Penn Station, we bought a Metro Pass and hopped on the Subway north into the Bronx. We got off at the last station Dyer Avenue, then walked a few blocks north into Mount Vernon, New York where we visited Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site.

It was certainly a neat place. The church was built in the 1700s and the cemetery contains some very old headstones.

Perhaps the coolest thing about our visit was going up into the old steeple

where we saw the old church bell

and were offered a commanding view of the Bronx and the northern suburbs. After our tour of Saint Paul's, we hopped back on the 5 train south to Battery Park. After lunch at Chipotle, we checked out Castle Clinton, Federal Hall,

and the African Burial Ground.

Then we headed north to Times Square where we ate dinner at the Heartland Brewery before our show: the Lion King

at the Minskoff Theater.