My daughter went to New York City twice in two weeks. The background: my mother-in-law ostensibly has a timeshare plan, but my wife has been paying for it. Because she’s been busy working, we haven’t utilized the service sufficiently. Fortunately, one of my BILs is taking it over on October 1.
My daughter went to the City in mid-July with her bestie, Kay, and stayed at the location on 45th Street in Manhattan. They attended a very much Off-Off-Broadway play directed by my niece Alexa.
The highlight was going to the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street. I will admit that I had never heard of it. They enjoyed Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffiti Collection (through October 5, 2025), Urban Stomp: Dreams & Defiance on the Dance Floor (through February 22, 2026), and the ongoing Songs of New York: 100 Years of Imagining the City Through Music. My daughter rightly assumes I will love that latter exhibit.
Part Two
The final week of July, my wife and daughter went to New York. My wife had never been to the Manhattan property. I’d been there thrice, once with my sister Leslie and twice with my daughter, and my daughter and I insisted that she go up to the 33rd floor at night.
My wife and daughter went to the Guggenheim Museum at 1071 Fifth Ave., designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The daughter was particularly taken by the Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers exhibit.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, is “located in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District—steps away from the Hudson River Greenway and the West Side Highway.” Unfortunately, the highlight of their visit, the Amy Sherald: American Sublime exhibit, ended on August 10; it had been featured on CBS News. You’ll likely recognize her famous portrait of Michelle Obama if you don’t know her name. But the collection has over 26,000 works representing 6000 artists.
Our daughter, who relished the return trip, took my wife to the Museum of the City of New York. On Wednesday morning, they had brunch with cousin/niece Alexa before returning home.
I should note that they went down to NYC the same day that some guy drove from Las Vegas to Manhattan and shot several people in a Manhattan office, killing four. Although I knew my family was safe – they were at least ten blocks away – it was oddly unsettling.
The day after their return, there was flooding in NYC, including the subway near Grand Central Station, where they had been just the day before. Their timing was remarkably good.
Always enjoy NYC. We are time share people for about 35 years. Although many are unhappy we have enjoyed ours.
We had the most amazing time in NYC…ten years ago! Haven’t been back since. Why? I’ve no idea.
Timeshares scare the hell out of me…I hear radio ads for businesses that specialize in getting people out of them. I had started to assume that the negative experience of using one was universal!
They are generally very hard to get rid of. As a result you can pick them up for next to nothing on resale market and of course there are maintenance fees. Never buy from the developer. Go to sales presentations, always say NO. And most important use it.