I heart NY (Part I)

So my best friend Kallie is awesome and happened to win two round-trip tickets to anywhere in the continental US.  Being her awesome self, and me being her best friend, she decided to take me!! And we thought it would be fun to go to New York City. We stayed for six days and had a blast!

Creepy Italian cab driver from airport to The Bronx. $50 ride! Ridiculous.

The Met

On top of lucking out with free round-trip plane tickets, we were able to stay with one of Kallie's friends who lives in The Bronx (yes, us two white girls survived six whole days of staying in The Bronx).  It actually was a pretty cute area.

The view from our balcony

To avoid having more expensive taxi rides, we took the Met everywhere. 

It was fun, but got old real quick in the 102 degree-plus-humidity weather.  I'd also hate to have to take it every day!

225th Street subway station, Bronx, NY

Pretty city line in background

View of our station in daytime

Another view of our station in daytime

View of the Harlem River from our station

View of the Harlem River on the North side of the station

Our first day out we strolled through West Village, the Meatpacking District, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, and finally ended up in Times Square.

Loved the name of this store!  Such a fitting term.

Outside Chelsea Market

Inside Chelsea Market.  It reminded me a lot of Trolley Square

Chelsea Market 

Real housewives of New York
  

Manhattan has this awesome "elevated" park called the High Line.  It was originally built to lift dangerous trains off of the streets but is now open as a public park that runs through the west side.

View from the High Line.

My favorite part was the water running under the benches (for cooling off feet?)

So pretty to walk through, and right in the middle of the city!

A look-out area over the road on the High Line.

View from the High Line

Driving range over the river I wish I would've had time to go to

Where Chase Crawford and Ed Westwick supposedly live

Times Square station

So bright, and so many people!

Express fashion show going on

And of course, the New Year's Eve ball

I feel like we covered so much on only our first day.  Stay tuned to see what NYC still had to offer us the rest of our trip!