Northwest Airlines Flights from Birmingham (BHM) to Newark (EWR)
Orbitz is pleased to offer airline tickets on Northwest Airlines, which operates a non-stop flight everyday except Saturday and Sunday from Birmingham (BHM) to Newark (EWR), regularly scheduled to depart at 6:35am and arrive at 9:53am. Usually an Embraer RJ is flown for this route. The average travel time from Birmingham, AL to Newark, NJ is 2 hours and 18 minutes.*
* Some flights must connect with additional service on this airline.
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During your Newark vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
This museum is the first-ever National Trust for Historic Preservation site that was not the home of someone rich or famous. It's something quite different: a five-story tenement that 10,000 people from 25 countries called home between 1863 and 1935 -- people who had come to the United States looking for the American dream and made 97 Orchard St. their first stop. The tenement museum tells the story of the great immigration boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the Lower East Side was considered the "Gateway to America." A visit here makes a good follow-up to an Ellis Island trip -- what happened to all the people who passed through that famous way station?The only way to see the museum is by guided tour. Two primary tenement tours, held on all open days and lasting an hour, offer a satisfying exploration of the museum: Piecing It Together: Immigrants in the Garment Industry, which focuses on the restored apartment and the lives of its turn-of-the-20th-century tenants, an immigrant Jewish family named Levine from Poland; and Getting By: Weathering the Great Depressions of 1873 and 1929, featuring the homes of the German-Jewish Gumpertz family and the Sicilian-Catholic Baldizzi family, respectively. A knowledgeable guide leads you into each dingy urban time capsule, where several apartments have been faithfully restored to their lived-in condition, and recounts the real-life stories of the families who occupied them in fascinating detail. You can pair them for an in-depth look at the museum, since the apartments and stories are so different; however, one tour serves as an excellent introduction if you don't want to invest an entire afternoon here.These tours are not really for kids, however, who won't enjoy the serious tone and "don't touch" policy. Much better for them is the 45-minute, weekends-only Confino Family Apartment tour, an interactive living history program geared to families, which allows kids to converse with an interpreter who plays teenage immigrant Victoria Confino (ca. 1916); kids can also handle whatever they like in the apartment and even try on period clothes.The hour-long Streets Where We Lived neighborhood heritage walking tour is also offered on weekends from April through December. Small permanent and rotating exhibits, including photos, videos, and a model tenement, are housed in the Visitors' Center and exhibition space in the tenement building at 97 Orchard St. Special tours and programs are sometimes on the schedule.Tours are limited in number and sell out quickly, so it pays to buy tickets in advance, which you can do online, or over the phone by calling Ticketweb at tel. 800/965-4827. Note that the potential acquisition of a neighboring tenement at 99 Orchard St. may change programming, so confirm schedules.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, a black Puerto Rican, set himself to accumulating materials about blacks in America, and his massive collection -- one of the largest collections of African-American materials in the world -- is now housed and preserved at this research branch of the New York Public Library. The Exhibition Hall, the Latimer/Edison Gallery, and the Reading Room host changing exhibits related to black culture, such as Lest We Forget: The Triumph over Slavery and Masterpieces of African Motherhood. A rich calendar of talks and performing arts events is also part of the continuing program. Make an appointment for a guided tour so you can see the 1930s murals by Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas; it'll be worth your while. Academics and others interested in a more complete look at the center's holdings can preview what's available online. Call to inquire about current exhibitions and information on tours and public programs.
Socrates Sculpture Park
This former riverside landfill is now the best exhibition space for large-scale outdoor sculpture in the city. No velvet ropes and motion sensors here -- interaction with the artwork is encouraged. Well worth a look, especially on a lovely day. Check the website for the current exhibition schedule -- or just let yourself be happily surprised.
The Stanhope Park Hyatt New York
When you have the good fortune to be located directly opposite the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you had better do your best to complement the grandeur of that structure -- the Stanhope is more than up to that estimable task. This elegant, grande dame built in 1926 has been expertly run since 1999 by the Park Hyatt group, providing ultra-attentive service without being stuffy or overbearing. The rooms, which were renovated in 2003, are spacious, with a soothing, old-world, European design (just like its neighbor across the street). Bathrooms are roomy and equally elegant, with Italian marble and European fabrics. Suites are even more luxurious and come as large as two bedrooms. The lobby is small with very little seating, but there is a cozy, clubby reading room off of it where coffee is available every morning, and an intimate lobby bar that is a popular refuge for many Fifth Avenue residents. In the spring and summer, The Terrace at Melrose features a Parisian-style outdoor cafe where the people-watching can't get much better. To add to the hotel's already romantic feel, every spring and fall, cabaret performer Steve Ross becomes the resident singer and pianist. And along with the Met, the Guggenheim, Whitney, Cooper Hewitt, and Frick museums are all within walking distance; you can't do better if museum-going is your thing.
Hotel Grand Union
This centrally located hotel is big with budget-minded international travelers. A pleasant white-on-white lobby leads to clean and spacious rooms with nice extras that are uncommon in this price category, such as hair dryers and free HBO. Bad fluorescent overhead lighting, unattractive colonial-style furniture, and an utter lack of natural light dampen the mood -- but considering the roominess, low rates, and excellent central-to-everything location, the Grand Union is a very good deal. Room no. 309, a nicely configured quad with two twins and a queen in a separate alcove, is a great bet for families. Most bathrooms have been freshly outfitted in granite or tile; ask for a newly renovated one to get the most for your money. The staff is helpful, there's a pleasant sitting room off the lobby, and an adjacent coffee shop is convenient for morning coffee or a quick burger.
Le Marquis
This Murray Hill boutique property is a marvel. There is a comfortable yet distinctively contemporary look throughout the hotel, in both the public and private spaces. The gorgeous lobby, with its warm cherry woods and sexy blue-glass light fixtures, is breathtaking. In the back is a wonderful living room-style lounge that you're meant to really enjoy -- it boasts a 40-inch flat-screen TV, books, board games, and sofas you can sink into.The guest rooms are not the biggest in town, but the available space is beautifully filled with custom furnishings that include armoires and efficiently sized work desks. The predominant color is a deep, warm Americana blue, with geometric patterns -- squares on the carpet, stripes in the window treatments -- adding a welcome dash of boldness. A smart and dedicated GM who pays attention to every detail has incorporated such luxurious appointments as platform beds dressed in goose-down and Frette linens; DVD/CD/MP3 players; plush terry robes; and Aveda toiletries. The sparkling white-tiled bathrooms with their beveled blue-tile accents are magnificent. While having bathrooms with showers only is often seen as a liability in a hotel, double-wide stalls and luxurious rain-shower heads make these rooms more desirable than those with standard tub/shower combos (which are available, if you prefer). At press time, a restaurant was in the works.
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