Mornings in Manhattan
New York may be the city that never sleeps, said Seth Kugel in The New York Times, but it does seem to catnap around 6 o’clock on a weekend morning. That leaves early risers—those with jet lag or simply in the habit—with the problem of passing the time until the city wakes up. Here’s how: Get yourself to the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge by 5:40 a.m. on a summer day. You’ll need to leave time for the 10-minute walk from City Hall, but then you can admire “the sunrise through a visual latticework of suspension cables.” Next, pick up a dim sum breakfast in nearby Chinatown. At 9 a.m. join Birding Bob in Central Park for a bird-watching walk. Or, if you’d prefer to hit golf balls, head for the driving range at Chelsea Piers, which opens at 6:30 a.m. The “perfect post-golf stroll” leads up the West Side along the Hudson River. After that, you’re on your own.
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