Family fun atop the Hyatt House Chelsea

Five days of finding New York to still be the crazy, expensive, diverse economy and life, sometimes feeling exactly like fifty years ago and at times feeling like an unrecognizable foreign country.

Four nights at the Hyatt House Chelsea at Sixth (Avenue of the Americas) and 28th Street, with walking tours of much of the lower west side of the city, including Greenwich Village and the Meatpacking District, plus Central Park, Columbia University, and Union Square.