Living in New York for Eight Months

Introduction

I am fortunate to have received the opportunity of spending 8 months in New York City! I spent a summer here (May - August 2017), and a winter term (January - April 2018) in the upper east side of Manhattan. The experience was fantastic, and this post will be reserved to showing some interesting pictures.

Up the One World Trade Center

One of the tallest buildings in the world

Governer’s Island

Here is the fanstatic view of Jersey City and Lower Manhattan

Yankee’s Stadium

Of course, we got sent to a Toronto vs New York game :)

Empire State

Hudson Mountain Range (Breakneck Ridge)

Challenging hike with lots of very steep rocks, but was fun

Intrepid

Located in west Manhattan, it was one of my favourite attractions You get to go inside the ship, at the hangar, and also a submarine

Brooklyn Bridge

American Museum of Natural History

You can get some very scenic shots here, and they have some cool exhibits

The Metropolitan

This takes many hours to propertly iterate, I visited at least 4 times (I think) Corporate housing, anyone?

Guggenheim

The building looks nice, but that’s all I can understand

Statue of Liberty

I didn’t actually go inside, unfortunately

Brooklyn Museum

Very nice location around prospect park

Brooklyn Botanical Garden

My favourite part was the Japanese Bonsai

Broadway Show

Volunteering Event - Building Bikes

Had a couple interns building a few hundred bikes in a day :)

Bronx Zoo

The zoo was rather large, with quite some variety in animals

New York City Museum

They included an older Bloomberg Terminal :)

Blizzard / Snow Day

Right outside my office, nearly nobody showed up to work

Office Views

View from 731 Lex Pantry (29th Floor) View from 731 Lex (My Floor / 20th Floor) View from 120 Park Upper Balcony

Misc

This is 3rd avenue, the street behind the building where I lived