New York City 2025

A birthday trip for Alan to the Big Apple. We got to go to the top of One World Trade Center, visit the 9/11 museum, see Hamilton and eat lots of good food.

No, we didn’t stand in line starting at 10:00PM for a bakery but a lot of people did 😉

While we had been to the site in 2024, we’d not visited the museum. 2025 changed that and changed it for the better.  A beautiful measum tastefuly done, the scale […]

45 seconds to go up 100+ floors?!?  Crazy! The view once you are there, amazing.

We have had the good fortune of seeing Hamilton twice in Pittsburgh (2019 and 2020) and we always thought it was very good. After seeing it in New York, on […]

This was all Alan.  He picked it since it was the highest ranked and closest to our hotel pizza place in the One Bite Pizza Rankings. Turns out, it was […]

A fantastic book store tucked inside the Payne Whitney mansion in Manhattan.   Take some time to visit then wander upstairs to see the fabulous ceiling.

What do you do when you fly into the city that never sleeps late on a friday?  You have dinner of course. We walked a few blocks from our hotel […]

We like Warwick hotels, the Allerton in Chicago has been a go to for many years for us.  In 2025 we decided to try the Warwick New York. Great location, […]

We’ve been to the one in Boston and in Chicago. Honestly, if you are looking for a light snack you really can’t go wrong. Say what you might, ingredients are […]

One of the most authentic espresso bars that I’ve been to outside of Italy.  Fabulous espresso. Turns out, they have super good drinkable choclate as well 😉