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On May 29, 2021, the state of New York saw an exciting new addition with the opening of Legoland New York in Goshen! This is an amusement park that consists of 150 acres of seven Lego themed lands on a property of 500 acres, and it contains several structures and attractions made of Lego or designed to resemble Lego. In this blog post, I will be discussing the history of the park and the many things you can do there, in hopes that it will encourage all of you reading to go check it out.  Plans for a Legoland New York began in 2015, with Haverstraw in Rockland County being chosen as the location, and a theme park, water park, and hotel being part of the proposal. Plans were immediately withdrawn due to resident concerns, but a year later, Legoland New York was proposed again for Goshen with the hotel and theme park but no water park, and the plans were approved in October 2017. Plans were for the park to open on July 4, 2020 to coincide with Independence Day, but construction on the...

A while back, I wrote about the Stamford Downtown Winter Restaurant Weeks, and today I am going to do something similar. Today, I am going to write about the upcoming Hudson Valley Restaurant Week! This event goes from March 31 to April 13, and features restaurants from all over the Hudson Valley participating, including Columbia County, Dutchess County, Greene County, Orange County, Putnam County, Rockland County, Sullivan County, Ulster County, and Westchester County. To ensure that this blog post doesn’t go on forever, I will mostly be focusing on restaurants in Westchester County and Putnam County, as those are the closest to me, and I will be going over the interesting foods on their menus in hopes that you will want to go and check them out and support them.  The first restaurant is 179 Bar & Grill in New Rochelle. Some of the interesting foods on their menu include crispy fried calamari, shrimp dumplings, homemade veal meatballs, prosciutto and fresh burrata, panko fried...

Today, I am going to write about a place that some of you might not even know about, Southport, Connecticut! This is a census-designated place that is located in the town of Fairfield along the Long Island Sound and borders Westport. In this post, I will be discussing some of the interesting places in Southport in hopes that it will encourage all of you reading to go check it out. One notable thing about Southport is that it is home to a collection of historic residences and institutional buildings in New England. Southport Village was also selected as a Connecticut Historical District in 1966, and a National Historic District in 1971. These buildings were made from the 1760s to the 1890s, and some of the architectural styles that were used to build them include Greek Revival, Federal, Queen Anne, Italianate, Stick Style, and more.  One of the main features of Southport is the Pequot Library, which is a public association and special corrections library. It also has robust special ...

I have written about the restaurants in many towns and cities in Connecticut, and today I am going to do it again! In this blog post, I will be talking about the restaurants in Downtown Greenwich as well as some of the interesting foods on their menus in hopes that it will encourage all of you reading to check them out! The first restaurant is a Mexican restaurant called La Taqueria. Some of the interesting foods on their menu include tortilla soup, chips and salsa, chicken tinga flautas, half moon quesadillas, grilled hanger steak tacos, pulled pork tacos, crispy fish tacos, shrimp tacos, short rib nachos, chicken enchiladas, vanilla flan, and tres leches cake. The next restaurant is an Italian restaurant called Bianca Restaurant & Bar. Some of the interesting foods on their menu include fritto misto, arancini, veal meatballs, eggplant parmesan, grilled prawns, prosciutto and mozzarella, Margherita pizza, gnocchi, ravioli, roasted chicken, NY strip loin, veal Milanese, and braised...