{"id":4526,"date":"2009-06-17T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T15:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:25:03","slug":"alison-lowenstein-city-weekends-top-getaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/4526\/alison-lowenstein-city-weekends-top-getaways\/","title":{"rendered":"City Weekends Author Shares Top 10 Getaways"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Summer is the season to be adventurous. So, in anticipation of warm, thunderstorm-free weeks ahead, we called on Brooklyn-based travel guru Alison Lowenstein<\/a>, author of “City Weekends: The Greatest Escapes and Weekend Getaways in and Around NYC,” to find out her hot list for where to skip town\u2014even just a borough away\u2014without a car, naturally.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the City:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Take the Staten Island Ferry and go to Snug Harbor to the Staten Island Children\u2019s Museum<\/a> followed by a stroll through the stunning botanical gardens.
\n2. Stand in Louis Armstrong\u2019s old office and listen to the tapes of his voice and the conversations he had in his home, which is now a museum<\/a> in Corona, NY.
\n3. Get a meal and see a floor show at Caf\u00e9 Tatiana Restaurant on the Brighton Beach<\/a> Boardwalk.
\n4. Ice skate in the middle of July in an old airport hanger at Aviator Sports Complex at Floyd Bennett Field.
\n5. Walk the trail while bird watching at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens.<\/p>\n

Outside the city<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. Spend the night at a Bed & Breakfast in Cold Spring<\/a>, NY and explore this funky town.
\n7. Head to Philly<\/a> to listen to Steve Buscemi\u2019s audio tour while walking around the creepy Eastern State Penitentiary. Afterward, go to the Mutter Museum to see John Wilkes Booth\u2019s thorax, and then spend the night at a center city hotel.
\n8. Hop on the bus from Port Authority to Mitsuwa Marketplace in NJ. Just three dollars to be transported to another culture.
\n9. Soak in the rays on Long Beach, LI and have a slice of Gino\u2019s Pizza on the way home.
\n10. Spend the day eating some seafood and shopping in Greenport<\/a>, NY.<\/p>\n

How to get there: <\/strong>All of Lowenstein’s destinations are easily accessible by public transportation. Refer to the map below for specific locations.<\/p>\n

View<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Summer is the season to be adventurous. So, in anticipation of warm, thunderstorm-free weeks ahead, we called on Brooklyn-based travel guru Alison Lowenstein, author of “City Weekends: The Greatest Escapes and Weekend Getaways in and Around NYC,” to find out her hot list for where to skip town\u2014even just a borough away\u2014without a car, naturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":22649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,320,747,315,770,834,329,325,907,326,748],"tags":[40,27,285,145,75,168,178,84,89,243,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-4526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts","8":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","9":"category-bus-2","10":"category-day-trips","11":"category-food-drink","12":"category-gardens-culture-2","13":"category-new-jersey-destination","14":"category-new-york","15":"category-pennsylvania-2","16":"category-queens-outer-boroughs-destination","17":"category-train-2","18":"tag-art","19":"tag-boat","20":"tag-cultural-activity","21":"tag-dining","22":"tag-philadelphia","23":"tag-port-authority","24":"tag-queens","25":"tag-shopping","26":"tag-staten-island","27":"tag-vineyard","28":"tag-weekend-getaway"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":22649,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/4849969351_529de6ff0e-300x201.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}