Answers to some of your questions

We hope you enjoy your stay in New York City. We want to make your stay as com­fort­able as pos­si­ble. Below are the answers of some of the most fre­quently asked ques­tions you may find use­ful for your stay.

Free Inter­net:
Wifi:           12SYLVAN
Pass­word: 12sylvan

Trans­porta­tion:
The clos­est sub­way sta­tion is 162–163 Street Sta­tion (located on 162nd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue). St. Nicholas is the Avenue to the right of Syl­van Ter­race. Go left as you leave the prop­erty, down the stairs and make a right, pass C-Town gro­cery store.

- C Train: This is a local train stops at every stop, how­ever.
– If you wish to be quicker, you can change from the C train to the A train at either 145th or 125th streets sta­tions located across the plat­form from the C train.
– When return­ing home you should always aim to be in the last car­riage at the back of the train, as that will let you out clos­est. It’s per­fectly safe to walk around this part of town, but please use com­mon sense.

Taxi and dri­ver for hire:
Below are very trust­wor­thy dri­vers you can call to arrange trans­porta­tion to the air­port. Their prices are fair, and we have availed our­selves of their ser­vices often. Typ­i­cal fees to the air­port follow.

Ger­man Polanco 1 646 626 3616
– JFK Air­port: $70
– Newark Air­port: $85
– LaGuardia Air­port: $45

All tolls and tip are included

Garbage
The garbage trucks come every Mon­days, Wednes­days and Fri­days at 8:00am to 10:00am.
– Recy­clables, plas­tics, glass and card­board are picked up on Wednes­days only. Recy­clables should be in a blue or clear plas­tic bag. — Plas­tics and glass should be in sep­a­rate bags, and boxes and news­pa­pers should be tied up with string sep­a­rately.
– If there is food in the garbage I would sug­gest putting out the morn­ing of the pickup day; there are rac­coons at the park next door and they will tear up the bags search­ing for food if they are left overnight.

Hos­pi­tal
– Colum­bia Pres­by­ter­ian Hos­pi­tal is 5 blocks away at 165th Street.

Laun­dro­mat and dry clean­ers
There is a Laun­dro­mat located at the foot of the steps to St Nicholas Ave on the left. You will need to pur­chase a card.

Alter­na­tively, there is a dry clean­ers on 160^th and St. Nicholas (across from the Laun­dro­mat). You can drop off your laun­dry for wash, dry and fold ser­vice at .85/lb.

Super­mar­ket
C Town super­mar­ket is located at foot of the steps to St. Nicholas avenue on the right and has quite a good assort­ment of foods. Two blocks west on Broad­way you’ll find sev­eral veg­etable mar­kets and fish and meat markets.

Wine store
There is a liquor store, Patag­o­nia, at the cor­ner of Ams­ter­dam and 59th Street.

Restau­rants and food deliv­ery
For deliv­er­ies, please spec­ify for the dri­vers to both ring and knock on the win­dow, whether you are stay­ing up or downstairs.

Menus for nearby restau­rants can be found in the wel­come binder

Sight­see­ing and enter­tain­ment
– Right next door is the Mor­ris Jumel Man­sion, home of George Wash­ing­ton when he fought the bat­tle of Man­hat­tan.
– The Clois­ters is located at 180th Street
– At 165th and Broad­way is the Audubon Ball­room where Mal­colm X was assas­si­nated. It is now a Chase Bank.
– River­bank Park is nearby on the Hud­son River
– Yan­kee Sta­dium is a few blocks away on the Bronx side of 155th Street.
– Ama­teur night at the Apollo is on Wednes­day nights, and is more inter­est­ing when they are at the quar­ter or semi­fi­nals,
when all the  not-so-good entrants have been elim­i­nated. Call and check. It’s great fun.
– The leg­endary 125th Street is a hive of activ­ity and well worth check­ing out
– The Shrine at Adam Clay­ton Pow­ell Blvd bet 134 and 135th streets has live music from 5pm every evening
– The Broad­way The­atre dis­trict is 20 min­utes away by train and many amaz­ing plays are per­formed there.
Tick­ets are avail­able from Tick­et­mas­ter.
– For more enter­tain­ment, check out the cur­rent Time Out

Emer­gency Num­bers
For police, fire, or ambu­lance: call 911
Our police precinct is the 33rd Precinct

I do hope that this gives you a jump­start on dis­cov­er­ing New York City, and please call if you need any assis­tance.
When check­ing out, please lock the door and drop the keys in the mail drop.