Hudson River: what's nearby, how to get there and when to go · 2026

ATAnastasiya Taranavataranova.nas · Jul 13, 2019Read

New York is very expensive. Seriously, a single meal costs as much as I spend in a week in Minsk. But coming here without money isn't a problem – you can survive, and quite well at that. I've put together a small list of places where you can go and have a great time. 1. High Line Park The park's unique feature is that it's built on former railway tracks 10 meters above the ground. So, it's not just a great opportunity to "rise" above the noisy bustle of New York streets, but also to enjoy an oasis of nature in the heart of the concrete jungle. 2. American Museum of Natural History Even if you're not a fan of "Night at the Museum," it's still a must-visit. Why did I include this museum in the "budget tourist" list? Because there is no fixed price. Visitors can pay as much as they want for admission (though the suggested ticket price is $22). 3. Botanical Gardens Admission to the garden is free on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10:00 AM to noon. Additionally, on Tuesdays, you can admire the gorgeous orchid collection at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for free. 4. Outdoor Cinema The most popular spot among movie buffs is Bryant Park, where mass screenings are held every Monday evening. Also, on Mondays, you can watch movies at Coney Island (right by the sea), on Tuesdays – on the roof of the Bronx Terminal Market, on Wednesdays – in Hudson River Park and McCarren Park, on Thursdays – at Brooklyn Bridge Park, and on Saturdays – on Roosevelt Island. 5. Walking Tours You certainly can't walk all of New York, but you can thoroughly explore some of its neighborhoods by joining free tours led by enthusiasts. For example, every Friday at noon, there is a free tour of Times Square (meeting point – Times Square Visitors Center, between 47th and 46th streets). You can walk around the East Side on Sundays starting at 11:00 AM; the meeting point is at the corner of East Houston and Ludlow Street. A number of organizations conduct free tours of Harlem, Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, Central Park, and other notable areas, but you need to track the schedule of such events and register for them in advance. 6. And I will finish with the irreplaceable square – Times Square I assume you'll hang out here for a long time. A gorgeous square with interesting things and popular shops like M&Ms, Disney, etc.

КСКамиль Сайдашевkamil89 · Oct 31, 2010Read

September 15, 2010 (8:00 PM) Right now at JFK airport in New York. Just arrived by bus from Port Authority. I spent two days in New York – it was just unreal. I still can't believe it happened. Everything is so beautiful, truly. But I'm exhausted – I had to nap for a night at a McDonald's in Times Square. I arrived in New York yesterday morning, dropped my bag at the luggage storage, and went to explore the city. I was everywhere I could be – Times Square, Central Park, Empire State Building, Wall Street, 5th Avenue, Broadway, the Hudson waterfront, Rockefeller Center… a bunch of other places too, everything is cool. Such a cool city, I'm a fan of urban vibes, high-rises, skyscrapers – they're my weakness – I just love them. Of course, I will never forget New York, and I even have a dream to come back here someday. I'm at the airport now – in 3 hours I'll be on the plane. I'm going to take one last breath of that 'special' American air and head to check-in. Will I miss it? I will. Thank you, America. Wait for me, I will definitely be back.

ККириллstriklend · Oct 28, 2009Read

In New York, we head to the customs officers' counters. We get checked, and a native American, Mikhail L. Shulman, asks if we want to stay. After finding out he’d been to Odessa for about 20 years and getting our stamps, we head to the subway. A guy approaches, says he’s meeting students, and offers a unique bus to the city center for just 15 dollars. He also says it’s too early (9 AM), the subway isn’t running, it’s expensive, it’s dangerous, and it’s better to go with him. As intuition suggested, and experience later confirmed, in America, Russians only try to bring other Russians down. Sometimes it’s better not to deal with them (us) at all. But that’s only sometimes) We thank him and head to the subway. The train to it (AirTrain) is cheap, the subway is a couple more bucks, and an hour and twenty minutes later, we are in the center of a modern Carthage, Novgorod, etc., all in one, or rather at Port Authority (where the Greyhounds leave from), where we had booked tickets with a 50% discount 3 weeks ago. The bus is at 6 PM, so there’s time to walk around. We buy a phone, don’t leave our bags in storage (6 whole dollars per bag, crazy!!)), call home, and go to Times Square. I won’t talk about the wandering. Tired after the madness in London, we look at everything quite skeptically. Although America greets us with wonderful weather (that’s how it is here, don’t pay attention))), the City doesn’t impress. Skyscrapers look, strangely enough, familiar. The mass of different nationalities on the streets is no longer surprising after the capital of England, where everything is even more colorful and turbaned. Rap on the streets has been boring since the days of friendship with the "neighborhood boys," so we see the Statue of Liberty, walk around the center, eat our supplies, and get on the bus. The bus allows a maximum of 2 bags per person, the rest is for a large surcharge. We get lucky - we have exactly 6 bags, so we sit down and go. But New York is cool, we just didn’t have enough time then. To feel it, you need at least 3 days. Walk around, go into the black and Chinese neighborhoods, clubs and churches, wander through the crazy streets of Manhattan and meet the morning in Central Park, get into a couple of scrapes, and spend the night on the banks of the Hudson. In general, New York turned out to be more worthy than what we could offer it then. We messed up, I agree) But we thought we would visit it on the way back, and for now.... We are going. The first 15 minutes we intend to watch the USA, proud of the path (as it became clear later, actually very short) that we have to travel. However, after 15 minutes, we get sleepy and... The driver’s voice wakes us up - some stop. Night. Connecting bus in 2 hours. We sit, we sleep... We get on, we go, we sleep... This repeats a couple of times. Waking up periodically, we see the same greenery and hills outside the window. It starts to remind us of Russia (Oh, how many more times will this happen!!)) In the end, having surprisingly easily slept for 18 hours, we get out in Myrtle. I never thought I could travel so much by bus. From this moment on, I believe that everything will be super in the car too. It was even more, but that’s later, and here.. - Here! Finally!! American life has begun! Now it’s just us and America! One on one! Let’s breathe in deeply! (metaphorically, since the humidity here is such that for the first week you will feel like an asthmatic).) Now english only! Change the way you think by the way you speak!!! "Hey guys, don't you need housing?" - suddenly a RUSSIAN voice rings out from a group of young people meeting the bus. "I might have some work" - another echoes. We walk away in shock. A third one approaches and whispers, handing over a business card: "It’s cheaper with me." A fourth offers cars, a fifth again housing, a sixth just says his name is Pasha (or Kolya, something familiar, in general) . Well, damn!! Yes, yes, America, it’s like that))) Then began the o

DDream-landguest_16012 · Oct 1, 2009Read

Oh, New York!!! A city that has everything, and where everyone finds something of their own! After 3 months of living here, you start to believe in the impossible; the rapid whirlwind of life constantly pushes you forward, there is absolutely no time to be sad or doubtful! Back home, looking at photos of New York, I thought it wasn't for me! I imagined it as a gray, big city where nobody cares about anyone else! I wanted to spend the summer somewhere closer to the sun, the beach, palm trees, and kind Americans—basically, in Florida! But my friends insisted on New York, for which I am extremely grateful!!! The first few days spent in a Chinatown hostel looking for housing and work cannot be called the best time! In those moments, I didn't really feel like I was in the capital of the WORLD! But as soon as we got to Manhattan—that was it... I already love New York! Our first acquaintance started with Times Square! OH!!! We ended up in a movie!!! Huge skyscrapers, bright billboards, even during the day everything was dazzling before my eyes! Of course, at night, Times Square is just cosmically unreal! One of our favorite pastimes is the big orange ferry to Staten Island! And you can ride it at any time, 24/7, for free! A whole half hour of magical views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty! We rode the ferry about 5 times over the summer) It's just a pity that we never caught it in sunny weather, but we also liked the romance of the overcast sky with lightning and rain) We even just rode it sometimes to sleep inside! We were just very sleepy, in a lazy mood, but we couldn't go home, it was a day off after all! One weekend, Ira and I took the ferry (as always, free) to Governors Island! A performance of a Shakespeare play was being held there! Having slept half the day, we naturally only made it for the last 15 minutes, but that's not the main thing... This island made a very strong impression on us! It was as if we had ended up in the times of Catherine the Great! It felt like no one had lived there for a whole century... old houses with peeling paint on the columns, cozy courtyards, whimsical shapes of trimmed bushes, sunny alleys! Interesting buildings resembling white-stone fortresses, a powerful circular fort, stone embankments! Literally at every step, we encountered something unusual... a huge green meadow surrounded by a moat, two cannons on a hill in the center, and even geese!... There were no shops or cars here... the only thing missing was aristocratic ladies in puffy dresses with corsets! Despite all this, you only had to look towards the Hudson River, and there it was... the modern world—the skyscrapers of Manhattan, surrounded by huge ferries (one of which resembled the Titanic). That's New York for you—a city of contrasts! Along the entire Hudson River embankment, there are picturesque parks with bright flowers and powerful trees! We loved these long walks along the embankment, or just watching the sunset while sitting on a bench! A particularly romantic atmosphere descended there with the arrival of the evening! We were drawn like a magnet to the soft, mysterious light of the streetlamps! And what an unforgettable feeling of freedom you experience every time you walk across the Brooklyn Bridge! Before this summer, I had never seen such beautiful bridges as in New York! It's worth writing a little about other districts of New York too! In a nutshell—it's sleepy Queens, fun Brooklyn, and wild Bronx! These are just my associations with these districts! In reality, every district (even Manhattan) has everything: entertainment centers, gang-ridden slums, and quiet, peaceful corners! The most interesting thing is that in New York you can meet people of many nationalities who usually live in separate micro-districts where they stick to their own way of life! They have their own shops, cuisine, language, and even some houses differ from American ones! I only managed to visit the Mexican district and Chinatown; we never m

AZAssel Zholdasbekasel200303kz · Dec 12, 2025Read

Assel Zholdasbek on Instagram: "Our route:🚴🏻‍♀️ Station🚉 Harlem -125 St (NY) Marcus Garvey Park Columbia University Central Park Apple Store 5th Avenue Pier 84 Hudson River Park Times Square Grand Central 🚉 ——— I've dreamed of cycling through New York for a long time😻 a little bit about something: The most amazing thing is that we started our day at Columbia University and finished at Times Square, where we met a master's student from the SAME university. And then we found out that he graduated from the SAME university where I am currently studying - MNU/KAZGUU. (He was the first Kazakh I've met in the USA in the three months I've been here😹) On the way home on the train, I remembered another student whom my friends and I met on the "Pirates of the Baltic Sea" cruise. He is doing his second master's degree in Finland. In Boston, there are also two Kazakh girls from NIS Shymkent, both named Assel: one graduated from Yale University and now works at Harvard, the other just started her master's degree there. ——— Such stories inspire me incredibly. You hear their stories, and the thought immediately pops into your head: "Wait, was that even possible?" It's interesting that these people don't even suspect it) Thank you, you are the best!!! Magzhan Zhumabayev was right when he said "I believe in the youth"🥹 IEC Tik Tok: @iec_1989 IEC YouTube: @iecriga Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-1x9u3NwUP/?igsh=MWQxeW1pZmJ0NHpxcQ==