There’s little doubt that Airstream Owners won’t find a more economical base to do day trips from than our Fort Schuyler Rally.
City Island – 8 miles away. The island is famous for its seafood restaurants, with lobster being a common specialty. Over 30 eating establishments compete for business, ranging from fast food (Johnny’s Reef) to The Lobster Box to a French bed & breakfast and a popular spot, The Black Whale, famous for its desserts. The ‘Snug’ is a popular local Irish pub. While a few of the restaurants close during the winter months, most are open year round. Local shops include Focal Point Gallery (a gallery of photography), Starving Artist Cafe & Gallery (featuring musical talents), Exotiqa International Arts (featuring art objects, gift items and jewelry from around the world), Early Ruth’s Antiques, Midtown Antiques, My Dolls And Things, and recently-opened (April 9) Calico Juno Designs, a handcrafted jewelry store where all the jewelry is handmade on the premises. Source: Wikipedia City Island
Bronx Zoo – 7 miles. Home to more than 4,000 animals of 650 species, many of which are endangered or threatened. Some of the exhibits at the Bronx Zoo, such as World of Birds and World of Reptiles, are arranged by taxonomy, while others, such as African Plains and Wild Asia, are arranged geographically.
Outdoor exhibits
African Plains exhibit, recreates the African plains. Visitors can walk past lions, storks, and zebras, and see herds of gazelles sharing their home with nyalas and African wild dogs. Giraffes roam nearby. The wild dogs can be viewed close-up from a glass-fronted viewing pavilion.
Baboon Reserve recreates the Ethiopian highlands, and is home to a troop of geladas. Visitors can watch the geladas from multiple viewpoints along with the Nubian ibexes, rock hyraxes, and African waterfowl that also live in this area.
Congo Gorilla Forest is a 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) rainforest that is home to the 20 or so western lowland gorillas in the zoo. Colobus monkeys, guenon, marmosets and mandrills also call this area home. Visitors walk through the area and can also view it from treetop lookouts.
Wild Asia Monorail takes visitors through a 40-acre (16 ha) area that recreates the mud wallows and pastures, forests and riverbanks of Asia. Visitors will see tigers, elephants, and rhinos, and wild horses in their natural habitats. As the monorail travels along the Bronx River, visitors can see native animals including egrets, turtles, and ducks. The monorail is accessible for wheelchairs up to 26″ wide. Smaller chairs are available at the monorail platform for visitors with wider wheelchairs or motorized scooters.
Indoor exhibits
Jungle World is an indoor tropical jungle and home to nearly 800 animals including otters, gibbons, and a tapir, live in mangroves and on the beaches. Visitors can watch the gibbons swinging or singing, and watch the otters play. The exhibit includes species that are usually on the jungle floor including stag beetles, scorpions, and fire-bellied toads, but behind glass. A pond with a waterfall lets visitors sit and observe gourami and Fly River turtles.
Butterfly Garden is an indoor butterfly conservatory which lets visitors walk through gardens and meadows and watch the butterflies up close.
Monkey House is home to cotton-topped tamarins, white-faced sakis, marmosets, and other New World monkeys.
Madagascar exhibit, which opened on 20 June 2008, recreates a small section of what many people call the eighth continent. It contains a variety of wildlife from Madagascar, including lemurs, hissing cockroaches, sifaka lemurs, and the Nile crocodile.
World of Birds is an indoor walk-through aviary. As of the summer of 2010, it is closed for repairs and upgrades. Source: Wikipedia Bronx Zoo
Arthur Avenue, Little Italy – 8 miles. Ask any New Yorker about Arthur Avenue in the Bronx and you get either puzzlement or a flood of loving sentiment about the real Little Italy of New York, the best place for bread, pasta, meat, pastries, the only place to buy Italian sausage, and more. The paradox is real: Many New Yorkers never heard of the place, while for others it’s home away from home … although it is often a well-kept secret.
We’re describing the Belmont section of the Bronx. Whether you call it Belmont, Little Italy of the Bronx or Arthur Avenue, the neighborhood beats its other rivals in the sheer number of establishments offering fine Italian-American foods, dining, house wares and other goods. The quality and values are tops – a recent ranking confirmed once again by critics like the Zagat Survey whose readers repeatedly give “Best Bets” status to more Arthur Avenue shops than any other neighborhood in New York City. — Source: LittleItalyBronx.com
New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx NY – 8 miles. The Garden contains 50 different gardens and plant collections. Sightseers can easily spend a day admiring the serene cascade waterfall, wetlands and a 50-acre (20 ha) tract of never-harvested oaks, American beeches, cherry, birch, tulip and white ash trees — some more than two centuries old. Garden highlights include an 1890s-vintage, wrought-iron framed, “crystal-palace style” greenhouse by Lord & Burnham, part of the Haupt Conservatory; the Peggy Rockefeller memorial rose garden (originally laid out by Beatrix Farrand in 1916); a rock garden; a 37-acre (15 ha) conifer collection; extensive research facilities including a propagation center, 50,000-volume library, and an herbarium archive of over seven million botanical specimens dating back more than three centuries. At the heart of the Garden are 50 acres (20 ha) of virgin woodlands which represent the last stretch of the original forest which covered all of New York City before the arrival of European settlers in the 17th century. The forest itself is split by the Bronx River and includes a riverine canyon and rapids, and along its shores sits the landmark Lorillard Snuff Mill dating back to the 1840s. — Source: Wikipedia New York Botanical Gardens
Times Square, 17 miles. A major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The extended Times Square area, also called the Theatre District, consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan. – Source: Wikipedia Times Square
From Times Square, all things NYC are easily within reach!
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