First Excursion of 2010

On January 1st, my boyfriend's parents took a trip into Manhattan to visit the Guggenheim, so we decided to leave the comfort of Brooklyn and meet them in the city after they left the museum.

After sharing a very overpriced meal, we walked along the meandering paths of Central Park for a bit, and then my boyfriend decided he wanted to show us "his favorite street in New York". So we followed him down into the subway and hopped onto an uptown (C) train.

We rode that train all the way up to 163rd, the 2nd to last stop. Getting out, I was a bit skeptical, because the area was .. not very nice. But we walked along some rather dark streets, and then all of a sudden the street changed to cobblestones, and we looked up to see an old stately white Georgian house up high on a hill.

Turns out this house, the Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum, was George Washington's headquarters in 1776, and that small area has been kept as a historic district. It's really unexpected all the way up there, but really neat. I wasn't able to get any good photos because it was dark by then, unfortunately.

Here is a view of Sylvan Terrace, that street that my boyfriend likes so much. It's really remarkable -- you feel like you're looking back in time and history. Maybe they were officers' quarters or something in that vein.

Oh yes, and one last thing that I almost forgot -- happy 2010!