Writes of Passage

2 2nd St @ Hudson Exchange
Jersey City, NJ 07302

A bar in New Jersey. This is an new American cuisine (whatever that means – probably healthier, more expensive …)/burger joint/ beer bar, on the Hudson River, looking over to Manhattan. Great view. Food is pretty decent. Their beer selection is huge but we ordered a bottle of red, oh well,

In Princeton, NJ.

483 Alexander St
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 452-2403

Walking distance to Princeton Uni

3535 US Hwy 1, Ste 370
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 919-1179

High ceiling, spacious, comfortable, average food. Our pit stop from Philadelphia back home, visiting a classmate, whom I haven’t seen since 1979.

• the canoe
• Princeton University

New York area has three major airports: JFK/Kennedy, LGA/La Guardia and EWR/Newark in New Jersey. Getting around/to/from them isn’t easy because we don’t really have a direct rail, unless you count Jamaica.

So, let’s get over this as if we never knew what Bullet and Maglev is.

New York City/Manhattan has two major train stations that connect to subways and buses (none of them is connected to any airports directly):

1. Penn Station @ 234 West 31st Street (8 Av & W 31 St), NY 10001 and
2. Grand Central @ 89 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017, (Lexington and Park/Vanderbilt avenues)

To/from the airports:

1. JFK
   1. taxi
   2. AirTrain to Jamaica Station $5; then change to subways
   3. buses
2. LGA
   1. taxi
   2. ?
3. EWR
   1. Amtrak $28 – $57 to Penn Station in about 23 minutes
   2. taxi
   3. bus: CoachUSA $17;

It’s shameful, I know …

Happy holidays fm Shiseido, at Mitsuwa Marketplace, Edgewater New Jersey. Fm L to R: cream 1.4 oz US$1,000, day $250, toner $270, night $250, bar of soap $100. The sales girl assures me that I don’t need anything else. They last abt 5 months.
.. I think I’ll stick with my store brand Vaseline and baby lotion -:). More pix in the gallery

Mitsuwa Marketplace, Edgewater, NJ, 12/4/2012