Hey, I used to work at SUNY Stony Brook! A couple things to consider:
check out the LIRR schedule at http://lirr42.mta.info/. There are only a
handful of trains from Stony Brook and they take about 1.5-2 hours
because of transfers. If someone could give you a ride down to the
Ronkonkoma station, the trains leave once an hour during midday and even
more frequently during morning rush hour. The train ride is shorter,
too--about an hour and fifteen. (Drive to Ronkonkoma from Stony Brook?
hmmm--about 15-20 mins if the traffic isn't too bad, so overall it might
add up to the same--just depends on how the SB schedule fits your day.)
The Cloisters is so tempting, but again, time is the enemy. It's way way
uptown. If you are at the Met you've got to get across Central Park,
then take the A-train up to 190th, then about a 10 minute walk through
Tryon Park. (http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/maps/submap.htm). So, add at
least an hour or two to your day for travel time if you want to head up
there.
You're also just in time for the newly expanded exhibit space at the
Morgan Library (http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/default.asp)
featuring a "best of" illuminated manuscripts. Yum! If you like
Renaissance Vienna you're in luck--the Frick has a Veronese
exhibit--http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/current.htm. (I usually go
there to pay homage to Holbein's portrait of Thomas More. The Frick is
more known for it's furniture/bronzes than for it's painting collections
but the Veronese exhibit looks interesting.)
Closer to Stony Brook, there's the Carriage Museum (now called the Long
Island Museum, http://www.longislandmuseum.org) right in town. They have
a wedding gown exhibit going in June. If you like gardens, my favorite
is Old Westbury Gardens (http://www.oldwestburygardens.org/), seen in
umpteen movies and advertisements--gorgeous look at what the "Gold
Coast" used to be all about--about a half hour's drive away.
- Hope (who is happy to have moved to Vermont but sometimes really
misses NYC!)
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