Last day in NYC

Last day in NYC - we packed our luggage in the morning, then went for a neighborhood walk before having a nice, delicious breakfast/brunch with our landlord. What better end of a interesting week in NYC could you wish?

On our walk through Sugarhill/Hamilton Heights, we not only discovered an unusual church, a cemetery with a „Jewish gate“ (photo far below), fantastic architecture (it’s a historic neighborhood!), murals (part of the Audobon mural project) and the Bailey House, built from 1886 to 1888 and designed for circus impresario James A. Bailey of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. 

Bailey House

Cemetery

Community Garden (one of many!)

Congragational Church

Shortly after noon we left our apartment and walked over to the subway station, which is fortunately only 5 min away (if there just wouldn’t be so many flights of stairs,,,) and took the train A to Penn Station. Didn’t take us long. From there, on to EWR, Newarks Liberty Airport by a „real“ train through New Jersey, and with the Airtrain to our Terminal. Luggage drop and security went fast and we had plenty of time at the gate (to work), before we boarded and took off on time, around 5:15 pm local time.

Same as on our last flights to and from the U.S. this B767-300 was completely full, fortunately with a 2-3-2 configuration and us sitting on EcoPlus seats. 7:40 hours flight time. Service was rather negligent - seems like nowadays they clearly favor Business/Premium Plus passengers and forget about their cattle class guests. Food and beverages ,,, as usual,,, unacceptable ,,,

Flight over New Jersey

Plane over Manhattan

Know what I am sincerely wondering about: How can people sleep - packed like sardines - from the very beginning on? Do they take sleeping pills? On the flight back, at least at this time of the year, it’s night outside most of the time, and it’s an overnight flight, but even on the flight over to the U.S., during the day, the plane is darkened all the time and most people sleep. They arrive in the evening, and, probably, continue sleeping? In the old days, we’ve been told not to sleep on the way west, to facilitate time change. Anybody able to explain this phenomenon?

Arrived to MUC in the meantime, couple of minutes earlier as scheduled, and, surprise: even our luggage arrived in the course of 20 minutes (unusual for MUC!). Now waiting for our pick-up, who is stuck in traffic on the autobahn.