WHY GO: There are three reasons most people come to Flushing NY in Queens – the least glamorous of the five New York City boroughs. First, for the jets that fly in and out of LaGuardia and JFK Airports. Second, for the New York Mets – who play at Citi …
WHY GO: The story of Harriet Tubman, “The Moses of Her People,” starts on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and ends in Auburn NY. Those who are interested in this amazing woman’s final chapter will want to visit her homestead and her gravesite. Want more HT? Auburn is the last …
Why Go? Some claim that Times Square represents New York: The City That Never Sleeps. But this Getaway Maven believes that the Southeast corner of Central Park – land of The Plaza Hotel, The Pierre Hotel, horse and carriages, Wollman Skating Rink and the Central Park Zoo – embodies New …
WHY GO: Stand on the banks of Croton Point Park in Croton-On-Hudson NY and you are inside a sublime landscape painting. Witness the looming forested bluffs of the Palisades, the graduated fingers of land extending into the Hudson River, the sun’s reflection on steely waters merging into a familiar tableau. …
This year, I was invited on a fall foliage cruise aboard one of American Cruise Line’s newest ships, the American Constitution, from New York City up the Hudson River. Here’s how it unfolded: A Few Things About Me For the record, I’m a road-trip travel writer – happy to do …
WHY GO: Whose official motto remains “Duty, Honor, County”? Hint – it’s the same institution that upholds its unofficial motto: “Sink Navy.” That’s right. It’s our country’s preeminent military academy, West Point. And yes, you can tour this Revolutionary War stronghold and actually stay in relative luxury on base. This …
WHY GO: If the website Etsy was an actual place, it would be Hudson NY, an artsy town on the Hudson River that has managed to out-Brooklyn Brooklyn in cutesie-pie-ity. Etsy in fact, did open a brick and mortar office here in 2013, following an area resurgence that began over twenty …
WHY GO: Back in the 1930’s and ‘40’s, my Mother spent her summers in Glen Wild NY. Mountain Dale, just 4 miles away, wasn’t even on her radar. Coming from the hot and sweaty Bronx to the Utopia of the Catskills as a toddler, she remembers running free in the …
WHY GO: It’s a safe bet that parents who drop their kids off at Binghamton University in Binghamton NY don’t generally stay to see the city sights, but they’d be missing out. Once maligned as blighted and abandoned, Binghamton – newly branded with the zingy “BING” – is undergoing a …
WHY GO: There’s a reason that Gilded Age millionaires built castles, and hid out, on the 1,800 large and small islands that dot the St. Lawrence River in the Thousand Islands NY. It is exquisite here. And closer than you might think. You can drive to Clayton NY, one of …