What's the penalty for dropping a city bike in the Hudson River? Let's not find
that out.
Bye-bye car. Okay cars drop top check in a back jump
on a flight heading to New York City this morning very excited one of my
favorite places. It's also ridiculously early, I think I
woke up at 4:00 something this morning and once again I come to the airport way
too early.
Ok, sit anywhere you like. Probably no window seats.
On behalf of Southwest Airlines and especially your flight crew I want to
welcome you New York City's La Guardia Airport.
We're not in Florida anymore.
Oh that view! It is so good to be back in
New York City this place holds some really special memories for me but less
than 24 hours 24 hours from now I'll be on my way back to Singapore so I've got
very limited time here in New York. There are so many things I want to do but I
need to limit it to the things that I can realistically achieve in the time I
have here. But what I did think I would do is because this place is really
special to me for a couple of reasons I thought I'd share that with you and just
take you to a couple of key places in New York City and I'll explain as I go
along which for me are really important. I also really want to get a run in at
some point that's the Hudson River just down there that's the path along side of
it where I quite often go for a run when I'm staying in New York.
I definitely want to do that, but I've not eaten yet this morning so first stop
bagels bagels bagels, let's find bagels!
So this behind me you can see this place here with the liquors the liquor store
kind of sign on the outside this was one of the very first places that I stayed
at when I was in New York City when I came down with Jacq probably about five
or six years ago. We stayed in little AirBNB just on the corner up there in one
of the rooms just up there I think there used to be a liquor store downstairs
underneath it it's now like an artisan gelato kind of place. But yeah special
place. it's 8th Avenue in New York and that's one of the first places that I
stayed at here when Jacq and I were dating this was before we were married.
So across the road there that's the Edition hotel we're just across the road
from Madison Garden, Madison Square? Madison Park. And then behind me you have
this restaurant this is called Eleven Madison Park and I've been very
fortunate to be able to come here and eat on two occasions. This is often
ranked in the top ten restaurants I think at one point it was the top
restaurant in the whole world. First time was actually the night that we got
engaged here in New York City in Manhattan we actually came here to eat
afterwards and then a couple of years later on our honeymoon as we were going
around the world we stopped in New York again and we ate here again. So Eleven
Madison Park not only an amazing restaurant like they do this chocolate
pretzel thing just hanging on ... Not only is the food awesome very
special place to me as well though because of well happy memories with Jacq.
She also really likes the candles that they sell in the Edition Hotel just
across the road there so this is a present for her. So if you see before I get
home - don't tell her!
People really look at you funny when you vlog in New York City it's very
different to Melbourne. In Melbourne you can find a quiet place, here people at
everywhere and they're like what's he doing? Loser!
All right this is a much more sensible way to get around New York City I've
never done this before this is cool.
Union Square we're not stopping there. This is a one-way street. Sorry!
These bike lanes are the best good job New York. It's pretty much like
about a quarter of the width of Fifth Avenue were on here is bike lane. I was
saying that of course the bike lane is finished now, it's getting really tight
sorry cabbie!
What's going on here?
Actually come quite a long way South now. This is coming into SoHo good cafes
restaurants shopping. I'm probably not going to stop around here.
Might still go a little bit further south there's one thing that I want to take a quick
look at that I've never actually seen in New York before.
That's 368. Casey's place. Now I'm not gonna be one of those people that kind of
loiters outside the front here waiting for him. That's his place of work I'm
respectful of that. I just really wanted to come down and see where it was.
This is so much fun. If you're in New York City even if you're a little bit
worried about the roads don't be. Grab a CitiBike, stick to the bus lanes.
Not bus lanes! Avoid the bus lanes, stick to the bike lanes it's such a fun way to
see the city.
Man I wonder how many annoying tourists stand outside that and
say 'who you gonna call', right? Who you gonna call!
So this is the pier then when
Jacq and I got engaged when I proposed to her up in the top of the Standard
Hotel then we went had dinner in Eleven Madison Park like you saw the morning
after we woke up, I had a huge hangover. Like I don't drink a lot and that night
I drank a lot. So I woke up the next morning pretty bad head, Jacqui was
the same too. But we went for a walk along the Hudson here so we went for a walk
along that path we were just cycling along, came here and we took a picture.
And what we did is we held onto that picture for about two weeks for the rest
of our trip before we told anybody apart from family and very close friends but
before we kind of announced it to everybody that we were going to get
married. And those two weeks just with her in our little bubble of being
engaged and I remember those days so well it was just wandering around New
York up and down here on the Hudson going to dinners having drinks just kind
of hanging together and really just enjoying that time with each other as a
newly engaged couple. Really special place, brings back some really good
memories for me. I love it down here. Now I'm paying for that city bike I think
I'm paying like by the minute so this is probably a really bad idea but I can't
come down to the Hudson River here being such a fan of Casey Neistat's work, I
can't come down here and not do one of those time lapses with the...
And that is where I proposed to Jacq up there at the top.
I bought some champagne, I got down on one knee, I spilt the champagne over her
cos I was so freaking nervous! True story idea I spilled champagne on
her about 10 seconds before asking her to marry me. And as she was wiping the
champagne out of her lap, she said yes!
I was supposed to go on a short run out the hotel there ended up getting a
little bit carried away. Went down to the Statue of Liberty, came back through Wall
Street, past one World Trade Center and I've ended up here. Behind me this is
about 45 blocks north now up in the kind of midtown Manhattan and behind me
that's the USS Intrepid. Can you see up there - that's one of the U.S. Navy Blue
Angels. I think it's one of their trainer aircraft? This is a fun place to visit
actually if you're in New York City and you want a bit of an Avgeek experience.
Also down there at the end it's kind of blocked off you can't see it but they've
got one of the original Concordes in there as well good fun right now nice
Good fun! Right now I need to run back to the hotel