Originally Posted by
cooperplace
td, I always enjoy your posts, but I wish you'd posted this a year earlier. I spent some time in NYC in jan this year, and if I'd known about the Intrepid museum I'd have been there like a shot.
Please keep up your interesting & informative posts.
Thanks for the kind words - I do appreciate it. As for NYC, this was the first time I actually visited NYC (other than to change planes) - piggybacked a work visit that my wife's sister's husband was making that kindly shared his hotel room with my wife and I. In addition to the Intrepid, we visited the WTC/9/11 Memorial and went up in the Empire State Building (my feet and knees were pretty sore from all the walking
).
As for the Intrepid - if you're interesting in aircraft carriers, there are vintage aircraft carrier based museums in other US coastal cities - cities that I'd rather visit than NYC.
Museum Aircraft Carriers
The aviation portion of the Intrepid was not that impressive - there are far better aviation museums in the US.
In no particular order these are - IMHO - the best aviation museums in the US:
Smithsonian Air and Space (Washington DC off the capital mall)
Smithsonian Air and Space Udvar-Hazy (Virginia, next to Dulles airport)
National Museum of the USAF (Wright-Patterson AFB, outside Dayton, Ohio)
Museum of Flight (at Boeing Field, just south of Seattle, Washington)