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Oh, forgot. While at 9/11 might as well stop inside The Oculus since you're already right there. not worth walking around but great to take a picture outside and then once you enter right into the top balcony, a nice view of the interior and you're done.

First let me preface one thing. There is always the "avoid tourist traps" warning. But some times you have no choice. Like The Eifel Tower is a tourist trap but if you go to Paris, how do you not go up the Eifel Tower? Recommendations: 1. After 9/11 Memorial, walk west to Broadway and then turn left and head north to City Hall. Stay on the right side of City Hall to get a nice view of the Brooklyn Bridge. You can walk halfway through the bridge and then turn back around. It is a nice walk with good views but if time is an issue, it can be skipped. 2. The east side of City Hall is Centre Street. Walk north on it till you get to Worth Street and then make a right. Make a left on Mott Street. On Bayard Street near between Mott and Elizabeth, there is the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory. Try some of their unique flavors. My favorite is Pandan. 3. Head back west towards Mulberry Street. After you pass Canal, you've entered Little Italy. Keep heading north on Mulberry till you get to Grand Street where you have Ferrara's Bakery. Tons of Italy dessert you take on the go. 4. Continue north till you reach Houston Street (it's pronouced House-Ton if you ask locals for direction) and then make a right and head east till you get to the corner of Houston and Ludlow Street. Go into Katz Deli and grab a pastrami sandwich. Moan like Meg Ryan did in "When Harry Met Sally". Also, you've just walked through most of the Five Points if you want to get historical. 5. From there, grab a cab. The surrounding neighborhoods there are more artsy and hipster. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume your mother is not interested in seeing men with nose rings and stuff. Excuse me if I'm wrong. Cab it to 23rd and 5th Avenue. There you have Madison Square Park and the Flatiron Building as well as the original Eataly (they opened a new one by the 9/11 Memorial which I haven't been to yet). 6. Walk north on 5th Avenue till 34th street where you have the Empire State Building, Macy's Heard Square (34th between 6th and 7th Avenue) and Keen's Steakhouse on 6th Avenue and 36th Street. In my opinion, best steakhouse in the city. Get the Porterhouse for 2. Really great whiskey selection as well. While I don't know their actual cut off in regards to dress code but I've gone there in jeans and sneakers on several occasions without any issues. 7. End the night at Times Square. It's not worth seeing during the day so best to come at night when all the lights are on full blast. 8. Carmine's in the UWS and Tony's on the UES are good. Tons of food. Just keep in mind that they're New York Italian food and not really true Italian food. After Central Park and Museum of Natural History, what you're missing is Statue of Libery/Ellis Island tour which can be coupled with you "boat" tour even though that ferry doesn't really go around the city. Musuem of Art (I think she'll really enjoy it. They have an entire Egyptian Temple inside). A tier below you also have the UN Headquarters and the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum. The Circle Line cruise is right next to the Intrepid so you can couple the two together. If you want to stick in that area, walk north along the Hudson River. They've complete rebuilt that pathway and it's very nice. Especially north of 59th street but beware, the department of Sanitation is at 59th street so it get a little smelly right around there but once you pass it, it's a nice walk. I also recommend The High Line. Best to enter at 12th street and Washington Street and walk north till you get to end at 30th street. This drops you off right at The Vessel. I'm not sure if they've opened The Vessel again after several people committed suicide from jumping off of it but it's still nice to see from the bottom too. The other note worthy stuff to see in the city are out of the way and with a limited time probably not worth committing such a long travel just for one site. Cloisters (an extension of the Museum of Art devoted to Christian Renaissance art), Bronx Zoo (there is a Central Park Zoo but not as good as the Bronx Zoo), New York Botanical Gardens, Brooklyn Bridge Park to name a few.

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Horse steak in Milan, Italy. Not a fan. Not sure why the site keeps flipping my pic upside down.

mRNA isn't exactly new. They've been testing it since 2013. Safety and immunogenicity of a mRNA rabies vaccine in healthy adults: an open-label, non-randomised, prospective, first-in-human phase 1 clinical trial - PubMed (nih.gov)

Where did you get the 99.9998% from? As far as efficacy, it's 95% from getting serious symptoms but 100% prevention thus far for hospitalizations and deaths.

Emirates is one of my faves. Used them for a round trip to Milan. Cathay Pacific is my other fave.

When two of my son's classmates tested positive, we went to CityMD to get the rapid test for free. Picked them because we found one with the shortest line. Got results an hour later. I also thought the rapid test wasn't accurate. They told me it was the throat swab that wasn't accurate and that the nasal swab was. Either way, we figured 3 of us (wife, son, and I) the odds of it missing the mark 3 times were low.

Baseball focused on cracking down on the sticky stuff this year. Really interesting on what's going to happen now to some of these players. Eyes on Cole and Bauer. It's worth noting that Bauer got rocked his last few spring training outings.

#1. Those at risk and should stay home and let the healthy people go about their business. This is keeps the virus around as it's being passed back and forth like a hot potato. This is how variants mutate. #2. Cases rise despite vaccine roll out. This is because vaccine has been rolled out. Restrictions has been relaxed and people immediately throw caution to the wind like there's no tomorrow.

Company is asking you to do something. You either do it or you find another job. Same. They're not asking you to do something that the government at the moment deems illegal (sexual harassments, felony activity, etc.)

Many years ago, I worked for a company that moved it's operations to Washington DC. I was forced to make a decision. Either I change my life and moved to DC or I leave the company and stay in NY. They forced me to make a decision. I'm suing.

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Dude that sucks! Sorry to hear.

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Had a little butt pucker of a moment this Saturday. Was flying around, everything is fine and all of a sudden my controller lost connection with the drone, while this has happened to me before when I stretch it to it's limits or fly around where there is interference or obstructions. During those times, it'll re-establish connection very quickly. This time, I had good signal, connection just dropped, and wouldn't not reconnect. It completely dropped the link as if it's a brand new controller or drone that's never been connected before. Fortunately, I had established a home point prior to flying (perfect lesson and reminder here). I had to sit around for 20 minutes or so for the battery to run out. Once the battery went low, the drone returned back to it's home point and landed. I went home, popped in a fresh battery, and it came up connected as if nothing happened. 119 flights under my belt and that was the first time something like that happened. After reading up on it, it has happened to some people. Their advise to to completely power down the controller and power it back up again to re-establish connection which I inadvertently did with I packed up, went home, and checked it at home.

Sounds like the guy was a top notch a hole. Generally I stay away from people too. Whole point of drones is to take pictures/videos from angles your normal camera can't get to. If it's near a person it means you could have gotten there physically yourself. FYI...technically it is illegal to fly a drone directly above a person but they key word is "directly" so that if it falls out of the sky, it doesn't land on anyone's head.

Sorry to hear about your loss.

DOE is forcing the closure.

They had to shut down my kids school 3 separate times this school year due to multiple positive cases. My kids class got shut down once because his teacher had to quarantine due to contact tracing. Now on Thursday, one of the kids in his class tested positive. His class is remote for the next 2 weeks.

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