Tentative Schedule: click here to read more about the trip and click here to see photos.
BERSI New York City
Tentative Schedule
Monday, August 4
7:30am Students arrive at CM, pack vans
8:00am departure
10:00am arrival at Yale University
10:30am admissions tour
12:30pm Dr. Richard Fern, Yale Professor, speaks at Woolsey Hall
Lunch at Naples Pizza
1:30pm depart New Haven
2:30pm arrive at Blessed Sacrament Residence, New Rochelle, orientation
4pm depart for downtown
5:00pm visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral
6:00pm Dinner at Rockefeller Center
8:00pm Tour, Empire State Building
9:30pm Return to New Rochelle
Tuesday, August 5
8:00am Breakfast; depart New Rochelle
9:00am Visit Frederick Douglass High School, Harlem
10:30am Tour of Islamic Mosque at 113th St.
11am Lunch at Sylvia’s Soul Food, Harlem
12:30 Visit Apollo Theater/Clinton Headquarters
1:00pm Service work at Rice High School and 9/11 rooftop discussion
2:00pm Tour All Saints Church, Harlem
4:00pm Visit St. John the Divine—largest cathedral in the world
6:00pm Times Square—ESPN Zone dinner
9:00pm Central Park performance of Hair; team trivia challenge #1
Wednesday, August 6
7:00am Depart New Rochelle; breakfast en route
8:00am arrive midtown; attend taping of The Today Show
10:00am The United Nations—tour and briefing
12:00 Lunch—upper east side
1:00pm The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2:00pm Ground Zero tour with guest lecturer; walk to Wall St.
3:00pm Board Staten Island Ferry for New York Harbor tour
4:00pm Battery Park team challenge #2
5:30pm Depart for Shea Stadium
7:00pm New York Mets v. San Diego Padres
10:00pm return to New Rochelle; evening reflection
Thursday, August 7
8:00am Depart New Rochelle
9:00am Walking the Brooklyn Bridge
10:00am Visit Maryhouse/The Catholic Worker
11:30am Lunch in Union Square
12:30pm Meet with Paul Elie, Farrar Strauss, lecture on “American Saints”
2:00pm Depart for Yankee Stadium
3:00pm Yankee Stadium tour
4:30pm Visit All Hallows Christian Brothers School in the Bronx
—basketball/pizza
7:00pm Depart for Chelsea Piers Sports complex
9:30pm Upright Citizens Brigade Show—“Improvised Shakespeare”
11:00pm Return to New Rochelle
Friday, August 8
8:30am Check out and depart New Rochelle residence
9:30am Visit and tour, The Cloisters Museum/BERSI challenge #3
10:30am tour Iona College
12:00 Depart for Boston
3:00pm Arrive at Catholic Memorial, closing ceremony
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See photos from the 2004 trip.