Uptown

16th September, 2011

Today I made arrangements to go to New Jersey to visit Will Crane. Will was studying in UCC in 2009 and I hadn't seen him since he left. I had a bit of time in New York so I decided to wander around a bit. I looked up a few things online but found a lot more on the way.

The photo above is from St. Paul's Church. It was purely accidental that I happened to be walking past this church. I am glad I found it though because it is beautiful (one of the nicest I have seen in the States). It is so colorful. There were some other temporary art pieces as well (most of which I didn't understand). There was one of Jesus in the tomb with dinosaur fossils. They also had part of the Bible from St. John's University. I recognised it immediately.

Next I wandered further uptown to Fordham University. It was getting a bit late so I didn't go in. But there was no obvious place that tourists would visit that I saw anyway. I popped into a biblical museum that I saw online. It was okay but was really the history of the King James bible so the oldest bibles they had were only from the 16th century. I would be more interested if they had some ancient manuscripts (like they have in the Chester Beatty museum in Dublin). I thought the exhibit in the Chester Beatty museum is better.

Before I went to the city, I also looked up the top cafes in NYC. One that came up was the Skylight Diner. I went here for lunch. It won some award for New York's best diner (though that was in 2005). It was nice though and quite cheap so I was happy.

I walked back to Penn Station to take the train to New Jersey. I was walking during rush hour and the footpaths were so crowded. It took me ages. The number of people was really overwhelming and I decided that I did not ever want to live in NYC. I took the train and met Will in Hamilton Station.