WHY GO: If you’ve got the funds for – or curiosity about – high end fashion designers, and don’t fancy a trip to France or Italy, you’ll be exceedingly satisfied with the shops, restaurants, and hotels that make up the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District. Spanning Madison Avenue from 57th …
Where exactly is Resorts World Catskills? And what makes this area of New York State so special? Catskills Appeal From the 1930’s on, hoteliers have capitalized on the beauty of the Catskill Mountains, opening up resorts that drew a mostly middle-class Jewish clientele from New York City (90 miles away). …
WHY GO: Budget Travel Magazine once deemed Saugerties NY one of the Ten Coolest Towns in America. However, I’ll also add that it’s one of the most down-to-earth, friendly, and community-minded, with not just one, but two independent bookstores. (As well as an indie movie theater and a slew of owner-run …
Most Hotels near Grand Central Terminal in New York City service large groups and crowds. But the following two hotels, The Bernic, and Hotel 48Lex, are smaller, more intimate. And yes, boutique. These are excellent places to stay in the city if taking the Boston to NYC train. The Bernic …
WHY GO: When Thomas Edison required a “glass envelope” for his electric light, he asked the geniuses at Corning Glass in Corning NY to engineer something that would withstand the high temperature of the fragile filaments. The scientists came up with the design we still use today – the light …
WHY GO: A “port” town, Syracuse NY was sophisticated and open to the outside world from the get go, despite its remote Central NY location. The Erie Canal actually coursed right through downtown: old photographs convey a Venice-like panorama. But the the waterway was paved over in the 1920’s. Syracuse …
On March 12, 2018, USA Today reported that a recently declassified 2015 video documented a UFO encounter in Pine Bush NY by navy pilots aboard a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet. This was not an isolated incident. From 1981 to 1987 there were over 25,000 reports of a boomerang-shaped …
WHY GO: The Woodstock Music Festival was held in Sullivan County NY. “Three days of fun and music, and nothing but fun and music.” Need we say more? Of course, yes. Boomers will recognize this area of the Catskills, also, as the former “Borscht Belt.” Summer resorts like The Concord, …
Your first view of Hudson Valley Rose Bed & Breakfast in Middletown, NY is that of a tree-lined gravel road that seems to go on and on and on. Surrounded by all the lush foliage, you might be tempted to belt out the 1960s hit TV Show theme song, “Green Acres …
WHY GO: A Cold Spring NY day trip is as close as it gets to time travel into 19th Century America. The entire center of the village was placed on the National Register of Historic Places due to its more than 200 well-preserved structures. Most were built before the Civil …