Alternative Spring Break 2003
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NYC Extracurricular Activities

Rain, snow or shine...cold or less cold...there's no question that New York City has incredible drawing power to Alternative Spring Break students looking for practical engagement experience in a great location. Safe to say, there is plenty of New York that ASB students did not get to during the ASB week, but with remarkable curiosity and energy, the 32 of us managed a fair amount of extracurricular entertainment, sight-seeing, cultural activity and, of course, a full range from cheap eats to fine dining!

A necessarily abridged list of activity includes:

  • Metropolitan Opera, New York Ballet
  • Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and many galleries in Chelsea
  • Greenwich Village, Chinatown, Brooklyn, Downtown, Midtown, Uptown, etc.
  • Empire State Building and the Entertainment Weekly office (thanks to alum Marc Vera!)
  • Broadway shows, including Wicked, Gypsy, Hairspray and more
  • SoHo shopping, Central Park, Staten Island Ferry, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square...
  • Cuisines from over a dozen different countries and regions!
  • “My two roommates and I still laugh when we think of how we kept being asked for directions by tourists. We learned you needed to walk briskly and wear black to look like a New Yorker.”
  • “I especially enjoyed being in New York City with a purpose—it made me feel like a part of the city to go to work each day and experience the work atmosphere.”
  • “Thanks to the generosity of strangers, I ended up with one of the hottest tickets on Broadway, a $25 front row rush seat to "Wicked" on Sunday afternoon, one of 26 rush lottery tickets from a crowd of about 150. I froze standing in line to do it, but it was great.”
  • “Basically I ate my way through the Lower East Side and much of Brooklyn. And I drank at the Motor City and the Library bars!”
  • “I saw only one rat in the subway the whole week! I was a little disappointed about that.”

 

 

 

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