Top of the Rocks

New York from Rockefeller Center

To me the best viewing platform in New York City. The Rockefeller Center is a building complex consisting of 21 skyscrapers with lots of bars, restaurants and shopping opportunities. It also has a nice square where you can sit outside and the media industry uses Rockefeller Center as a main location. The GE Building with 70 floors is the highest building within this venue.

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The Cronut

Dominique Ansel Bakery, New York

I already did a lot of stupid things while travelling. But what about standing in line for hours in New York City just to get pastries from a bakery? Well, it is not any bakery, it is the Dominique Ansel Bakery selling very good products. And one day,  Dominique Ansel invented a combination of a croissant and a donut – the Cronut.

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9/11

National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York

I guess everybody still knowns where he or she was when terrorists transformed a part of Manhattan into Ground Zero on 11th of September, 2001 (I myself was doing my civilian service in Göttingen, Germany). This date has eternalized in the memories of people around the world. You can now visit the memorial and a very impressive museum at the original location.

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German beer & soccer

Zum Schneider, New York

During my stay in New York the quarter and semi finals of the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil where held. That is why I was looking for a bar showing the games of the German soccer team (“Die Mannschaft“, as it is called in the States). Easily I found the “Zum Schneider“, a Bavarian beergarden and restaurant in the East Village of New York.

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A visit to the shore

Rockaway Beach, New York

Tired of the big city? Take the A train to Rockaway beach! You can enjoy a long metro ride through Queens and afterwards walk along the sandy beach. There are no typical beach facilities (as one would expect back home) and I was quite irritated by the standardized homes along the way but there is nothing like a cool summer breeze close to the ocean.

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