New York City, NY Flight Path
Notes from a summer spent in NYC.
My plane landed back in St. Louis around 11 p.m. last night after an exhausting day of crying at La Guardia.
My original flight was supposed to leave NYC at 6 a.m. and land in St. Louis a short three hours later but when my alarm went off at 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning I opened my phone to find emails and texts from Delta saying my flight had been cancelled and while they had tried to find me another adequate flight to get me home, they could not. I went out into the living room of our dorm room and called my unsuspecting parents to help me find a new flight. I had to be out of my dorm by noon but the new flight they found didn’t leave NYC until 6:30 p.m. and had a layover in Chicago. I went back to sleep. When my roommate woke up at 7 a.m. she screamed at me and shook my bed, thinking I had overslept for my flight. I appreciate her caring for me, didn’t appreciate being woken up again. I left my dorm at noon and sat in the airport for six hours, periodically crying in the corner over how much I wanted to be home. My plane from Chicago to St. Louis sat on the runway waiting for late passengers for longer than it was in the air. When I finally got home I posted on Instagram with the caption, “nyc wanted to keep me around so badly she kept cancelling my flights”.
Today I woke up feeling refreshed as I had just slept in a bed with blankets and pillows for the first time all summer and awoke to birds chirping outside of my window instead of cars honking downstairs. When I wanted to go for a walk I walked out the front door instead of taking an elevator down 14 stories.
Although these antidotes sound like complaints, my summer in NYC was beyond anything I ever could have dreamed of or imagined. There are so many people I met that I know will be my friends for lifetimes to come, so many things I learned that will take me far, and so many fond memories to look back on and smile about.
I have written about my time in NYC profusely but I wanted to put together a Flight Path for the city so there was one place to see all of my Summer in NYC stories and tell you all about the things I loved.
(Chronological order)
Overall, some of my favorite from NYC:
Sitting in Central Park listening to music, drawing in my sketchbook, and watching a rec softball league playing
Monday movie nights at Bryant Park
Thrift stores: Other People’s Clothes, the $5 bin in Bedford Vintage, Buffalo Exchange on Broadway, Domsey Express
Music: Webster Hall, Ulysses Bar in Financial District, Baby’s All Right
Domino Park, McCarren Park
Heavenly Market Deli, Sophie’s Cuban Cuisine, Tompkins Square Bagels