{"id":228,"date":"2015-04-01T11:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T11:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/?p=228"},"modified":"2015-11-10T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:18:49","slug":"new-york-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/archives\/228","title":{"rendered":"New York, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, New York! I\u2019d be lying if I say I\u2019m not excited<\/strong> to be here. Not just the fact that I personally have gotten to experience \u201cThe Big Apple\u201d. We\u2019ve been behind the scenes; visited companies, interacted with people living and working here and experienced and seen more than we would if coming here as tourists.<\/p>\n

We stayed in Hotel Pennsylvania, just across Madison Square Garden and a short walk from Times Square. It\u2019s strange to personally see and experience this city, as it\u2019s a city I as so many others have seen and experienced only through different media. Some girls and Iwent on a guided bus tour, Uptown, Downtown and a ferry out to see The Statue of Liberty. It took a couple of hours, or more like a day, but we got to see a lot more of New York, geographically speaking, than we would\u2019ve by walking. The view from the ferry was magnificent! You got to see the city from a distance and see how all the buildings just were set on a perfect line with the water right below. Still walking around is one of the best ways to get to know a new place.<\/p>\n

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As in Boston we\u2019ve been very lucky with the weather, so sunny, and perfect for walking. Before going back to Lancaster we had some free time. I decided to take it easy and solely enjoy the city, walk and have good food. My favourite thing is the High Line, a public park built on an old rail line elevated above the streets. The special view, you get to walk through the city in a different way, with a industrial feeling surrounded by trees and spots of grass and flowers. Also a trip to Central Park, and pancakes on the steps of Metropolitan Museum of Art made my trip complete. There is still so much I could have done, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible to get though all the things you plan to while in New York, there is so much to see and do. Even though I tried, there would not have been enough time, and there might never be. Surprisingly enough I did very little shopping, for the same reason as just mentioned; there was so many others things I\u2019d rather do.<\/p>\n

We visited some more companies; Kaneka, a producer of chemical products, comScore an Internet technology company, paid a gratitude visit to Santander and went to a event with alumni from Lancaster University now in New York. Still the companies and people delivered. I love the way we get an insight into the world that we in not too many years could be a part of. We also had some more \u201ctouristy\u201d activities planned, as the 9\/11 Memorial and to the United Nations Visitor Centre.<\/p>\n

Our days in the US are coming to an end. I\u2019ve seen some great buildings, met some great people, had great food, experienced so much I never thought I would, and best of all I got to share all this, all these moments, with the great group of people I travelled with. Coming to a city as famous as this comes with some expectations, and New York definitely delivered! <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, New York! I\u2019d be lying if I say I\u2019m not excited to be here. Not just the fact that I personally have gotten to experience \u201cThe Big Apple\u201d. We\u2019ve been behind the scenes; visited companies, interacted with people living and working here and experienced and seen more than we would if coming here as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nyc-boston","tag-entrepreneurship-strategy-and-innovation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p62DXA-3G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/your-global-exploration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}