TRAVEL- Budapest to New York

We left Budapest in the wee hours of the morning for a 6am flight to NYC. Unfortunately our original seats were changed with a change in equipment but we did fine, albeit almost no sleep as we traveled for 7 hours. Then once in Queens, Lee took his subway home and we took a different one to the Marriott by Penn Station where we spent the night before going out the next day by train.

We stayed in a busy part of town, near Madison Square Garden (where there was a Rangers game tonight) and the Tenderloin Section of Manhattan. For our one night stay we were treated to a very large suite including a dining room table and living room, not easy to get in NYC! We were right opposite the old 23rd precinct of NYC, so there were many police cars out front…comforting.

The Tenderloin used to have the greatest concentration of saloons, brothels, gambling parlors, and dance halls in the City. Also known in the 1900’s until recent years as the Fur District and still is the active Flower District of NYC.

Later that same evening we went to visit Aunt Jane where we had dinner, finally back in the US for some good food, in particular green, that we could eat.Read more