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Get Your Mad Scientist On at the New York Hall of Science

Posted on: May 11th, 2012 by royalcoachmanww No Comments

The New York Hall of Science originally started as a pavilion build for the 1964 World’s Fair. Over the years it has developed into a hands-on science and technology center. There are over 450 interactive exhibits among the many things to do there. No matter what age you are there is something new to learn and things to explore, especially in a place like this. Here are some tantalizing tibidits about the offerings the New York Hall of Science provides.

Rocket Park for the Astronaut in You

It is a 5,000-square-foot exhibition on the grounds of the New York Hall of Science. It features two newly refurbished icons of the U.S. space program—an original Atlas booster with a replica Mercury capsule and an original Titan II booster with a replica two-man Gemini capsule.

Science Demonstrations for the Mad Scientist

Learn about the exciting properties of chemistry, physics, biology, and more right with their slate of 15-minute demonstrations. The goal of these demonstrations is to engaging, explain and make science come to life. There is a weekday and weekend schedule that can be found on their website. The week of April 6-15th they plan on operating under the weekend/holiday schedule as school is out.

Special Events to Note

In addition to their regular offerings there is always some type of special event going on for the kids that you don’t want to miss.

Don’t miss out on this unique New York experience and get your science on. And give us a call to get you around all the traffic and to these fun events stress free!

New Jersey’s Got Talent Too!

Posted on: May 4th, 2012 by royalcoachmanww No Comments

America’s Got Talent has selected the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark as its host venue for its 2012 season beginning this week. The popular reality television series begins its 7th season May 14th and 15th, with shock radio personality Howard Stern replacing Piers Morgan. The Performing Arts Center in downtown Newark is one of the largest art centers in the country and expects to have over 2200 fans in attendance for each taped show.

After the premier, the show will be broadcast on Mondays at 8 PM and Tuesdays at 9 PM on NBC beginning May 21st, with live tapings to begin July 2nd at the Performing Arts Center for the second half of the series. Sharon Osborne and Howie Mandel return as the other judges, Nick Cannon returns as the host and Simon Cowell remains the executive producer for the highly ranked program that was #1 in its time slot for each of its previous six years while averaging 12 million viewers per show last season.

With the addition of Howard Stern, who is one the most powerful celebrities in the world today, the show moves from Burbank, California to the east coast. The move was necessitated by Stern’s contractual obligations to his radio program on Sirius XM in Manhattan. Howard Stern has long been the source of controversy and has been fined millions of dollars by the FCC for what has been deemed indecent material during his many years in talk radio. But by bringing him on as one of the three judges for America’s Got Talent, it’s all but certain to maintain its stranglehold on the #1 position of its time slot, especially since Stern already has tremendous fan appeal. However it will be quite interesting to see how well Stern meshes in with the group of auditioners, the audience and associates on the show, given his fiery personality.

The talent show will once again feature a variety of performers including singing and dancing acts, magicians, comedians, contortionists, jugglers and perhaps even another ventriloquist similar to the winner of Season 2, Terry Fator. The 2012 winner of the show will receive the top prize of $1 million along with the national exposure for a career in entertainment.

Anticipation is building for the beginning of the new season and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center is extremely proud to be the host venue for what is expected to be yet another memorable season of competition and entertainment amongst America’s emerging pool of talent. Even prouder is the City of Newark, which will get an economic boost for fans coming to the city in anticipation of being in the audience of one of America’s most popular television shows and cheering on their personal favorite.

If you are planning on going to the tapings, give us a call and we will get you there with no stress or hassle of parking.

No Fantasy Football Draft Here…It’s the REAL McCoy!

Posted on: April 21st, 2012 by royalcoachmanww No Comments

Football fans can soon ignore the many rumors and mock drafts because the real event is coming soon to New York City. The 77th annual NFL draft is scheduled for April 26th-28th at Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center. If you are an executive or a staff member of an NFL or college team, you can ride to the venue in luxury by taking the best limo service in New Jersey, Royal Coachman.

The annual draft of the nation’s top college football players is performed in reverse order of each teams’ previous record. By virtue of the New York Giants’ stunning victory in Super Bowl LXVI over the New England Patriots, this makes the Giants the recipient of the last pick of the first round of 30 picks. In contrast, the team with the worst record last season, the Indianapolis Colts, selects #1 in the first round.

With the first pick, the Colts are expected to draft the most highly rated player in the draft, in this case, Stanford University’s quarterback Andrew Luck. However the very next player expected to be drafted, quarterback Robert Griffin III of Baylor is equally a highly touted player and the team who possesses the #2 position is New York Giants rival, the Washington Redskins who gained the pick via a trade with the St. Louis Rams.

After the NFL and college football seasons are over, fans have taken to the many social media platforms to analyze, dissect and predict what college players will be picked in the first round and all have high expectations of who their favorite team will select. But just because a player was highly regarded in college, doesn’t necessarily translate well into the professional ranks.  Of course there have been game changing superstars that have been drafted #1 overall in the first round: John Elway in 1983, Troy Aikman in 1989, Peyton Manning in 1998, and Eli Manning in 2004, who all led their teams to Super Bowl victories.

But there have been a lot of college players that went bust when they reached the pros. Take for example JaMarcus Russell,  the #1 overall pick in 2007. The Louisiana State University quarterback who went 21-4 as a starter in college, was drafted by the hapless Oakland Raiders, then held out for more money until he received a $61 million contract, $32 million which was guaranteed money. After just three seasons with the Raiders, Russell went 7-18 as the starter and is now out of professional football. Another starting example of a draft bust is Ryan Leaf, who played college ball at Washington State University. Leaf was so highly regarded that he was the #2 overall pick in the first round of the 1998 NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. Beset with injuries, poor performance and personal problems, Leaf was out of professional football. Just recently, Ryan Leaf made the news again, only in a far less positive light. Less than a month ago, he was arrested on burglary, theft and drug charges, not once, but twice in a span of 4 days.

Thus, each of the 30 teams of the NFL is well aware of the risks involved in their selection, which makes the evaluation process a state of the art science. But hope springs eternal for each of the teams as they dream of securing the next Joe Montana, who wasn’t picked until the end of the 3rd round in 1979 or a Tom Brady, who wasn’t picked until the 6th round of the 2000 draft.

The excitement is building for both fans and their respective team’s organizational staff. Many visitors know they won’t get a bust in selecting a New Jersey limo service by choosing Royal Coachman as their #1 chauffeured limousine and ground transportation service!

We Have An Empire State of Mind for the Playoffs!

Posted on: April 16th, 2012 by royalcoachmanww No Comments

The end of the regular season for the NBA is fast approaching and if the New York Knicks maintain their current position, they’ll make the playoffs. The Knicks currently reside in the last remaining spot in the Eastern Conference for the playoffs and barring any unforeseen event, they’ll face the top seeded Chicago Bulls in the first round. If the Knicks do make it to the playoffs, you can see them in style by using limo service from Royal Coachman to Madison Square Garden.

It is safe to say that it’s been a disappointing season for the Knicks, what with all the talent the team has. With three starting players earning nearly a combined $50 million, your expectations are much higher than finishing at just .500. Granted the team has had its share of extended injuries to key players like Carmelo Anthony, Baron Davis, new mega-marketing whiz kid Jeremy Lin, and perhaps their most important player, Amare Stoudemire still on the injured list with a bulging disk. While the 6’10” Stoudemire is expected to return, it isn’t yet clear if Jeremy Lin will return after having surgery for a torn meniscus earlier this month.

One of the few positives in looking back at this season, has been the emergence of young point guard Jeremy Lin, who practically became an overnight worldwide sensation. Being one of the few Asian players to ever play professional basketball in the NBA, Lin’s incredible popularity coined a new word – Linsanity and fans across the country caught on to a hyper-speed bevy of activity via social media.

When the season ends and playoff matches are announced, New Yorkers are quietly hoping for an upset, that is, of course, if they make it to the first round. As it is usually understood in sports, once the playoffs begin, anything can occur. If the Knicks play the Bulls, Chicago fans can rely on Royal Coachman’s limo service from Newark International Airport to anywhere in the New Jersey/New York City area. For Knicks fans, why not rent a limo to the home games at The Garden?

 

The Iconic Chrysler Building

Posted on: March 22nd, 2012 by royalcoachmanww No Comments

The Chrysler Building is iconic to New York City. In fact, it is one of the biggest examples of Art Deco** architecture in the United States. In 2005 it was voted by New York’s Skyscraper Museum as New Yorkers’ favorite tower in the City. The building itself is 77 floors and 319.5m (1048 feet) high. It is built with 29961 tons of steel, 3,826,000 bricks and has near 5000 windows. The cost to build this magnificent structure in in the late 1920’s was $20,000,000. The decorative features of the building were designed after the ornamental features on Chrysler cars. The eagles on the corners of the 21st floor were taken from the eagle hood ornaments on the 1929 Chrysler model car.

If you have never seen the Chrysler Building read this wonderful description of just the 3 story high lobby as so eloquently put at nyc-architecture.com…

“The three stories high, upwards tapering entrance lobby has a triangular form, with entrances from three sides, Lexington Avenue, 42nd and 43rd Streets. The lobby is lavishly decorated with Red Moroccan marble walls, sienna-coloured floor and onyx, blue marble and steel in Art Deco compositions. The ceiling murals, painted by Edward Trumbull, praise the modern-day technical progress — and of course the building itself and its builders at work. The lobby was refurbished in 1978 by JCS Design Assocs. and Joseph Pell Lombardi.” 

So how are you on your Chrysler Building trivia? Next time it comes up in conversation here is an interesting fact. The 27-ton spire on top of the building took just 90 minutes to erect and the final height of the building was kept secret until the end. Chrysler was in a race to build the tallest building in the city. When it looked like the Bank of Manhattan was going to win, Chrysler had the spire built in secret inside the building and then had the spire added to the Chrysler Building. It held the record as the tallest building in the world for 11 months until the Empire State Building took the title. The Empire State Building was being built by Chryslers competition John Raskob of general motors. Raskob’s architects did some figuring and decided to make the Empire State Building 85 stories tall (eight stories taller than the Chrysler Building.) It was then that the Chrysler Building was bumped to the second-tallest building in the city. Special thanks to www.mentalfloss.com  and www.jazzhostels.com  for this bit of trivia!

Next time you’re in the area make sure to stop and look at this marvel.

Get Your Few Minutes of TV Fame

Posted on: March 2nd, 2012 by royalcoachmanww No Comments

New York is a hub of live, daytime and late night TV broadcasting.  It is home to nationally well-known shows such as The Martha Stewart Show and The Today Show. Many of the shows require you to buy tickets in advance, or have a special process to obtain tickets to a live show or taping, while others are open for whom ever arrives. Whether you are a native New Yorker, or just interested in partaking of this once in a lifetime opportunity while visiting it is important to know some of the variety available:

 

 

 

 

  • The Dr. Oz Show- Tickets are now available for Season 3 of The Dr. Oz Show. Call the NBC Ticket Line at 212-664-3056, Option 4, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Check DoctorOz.com regularly for any important show updates. Tickets are booked anywhere from 3-6 weeks in advance, depending on availability. You can request up to four tickets per show, and all audience members must be at least 18 years old.

 

 

Of course, give us a call to arrange your transportation to and from these to complete your celebrity experience!

Fore! Royal Coachman’s Recommendations for Golfing in New Jersey

Posted on: February 24th, 2012 by royalcoachmanww No Comments

Did you know that New Jersey is home to 360 golf courses, the host area of PGA tour tournaments and Amateur tournaments as well? In June the Neshanic Valley Golf Course will be hosting the USGA Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship. This is the first time the championship tournament has come to Neshanic Valley, a course that was opened in 2004 and has only hosted the golf tournament’s qualifiers.

What does it take to prepare for the expected 156 golfers and influx of several thousand spectators? One of the first items on the agenda is the construction of a 44-foot-long scoreboard and the planning of needed adjustments to the Branchburg golf course once the weather gets warm. Driving ranges have also been covered with tarps to promote better and earlier grass growth.

This tournament is one of 13 USGA national championships that are held annually, and was created in 1977 for public-course players. In order to qualify women must advance through qualifying matches and hold a USGA Handicap Index of 18.4 or lower. Past winners include professional players Michelle Wie and Jody Niemann-Dansie. For more information on the tournament you can visit http://www.usga.org/ChampEventSite.aspx?id=17179869344

The Somerset area will make its mark on the map as a sporty place to be to the expected influx of tourists. The county itself is even fine-tuning a network of shuttle buses that will transport players and spectators. Whether you just live in the area, are a golf player who is interested in playing or like to take a spectator stand this promises to be an unforgettable year for the USGA Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship.

Give Royal Coachman a call to arrange car service transport to and from the best golf courses in our region!

Groundhog Day is Coming….

Posted on: January 27th, 2012 by royalcoachmanww No Comments

February 2nd brings us to one of the most important days of winter…Groundhog Day. The legend of Groundhog Day is actually based on an old Scottish couplet which states: “If Candlemas Day is bright and clear, there’ll be two winters in the year.” On this day groundhogs everywhere are awoken from there slumber to see what we could expect. Six more weeks of winter or is it waning in its presence early to all our delights? The most famous of all grounddogs is Punxsutawney Phil. If you don’t know much about Phil check out the movie “Groundhog Day”. It does a good job in educating us all (while giving us a good laugh). If you haven’t seen it put it on your list.

With that in mind, we will have our own local groundhog awakening on February 2nd right here on Staten Island. The famous Staten Island Chuck is planned to make his official prediction. He resides in the Staten Island Zoo, and it scheduled to make his prediction at 7:30 a.m. What do you think he is going to say? Either way, the ceremony is free to attend, and there will be an optional Breakfast with Staten Island Chuck ($10/adult, $5/child) and a blood drive. Pre-registration is recommended for breakfast; call 718-442-3101 x14 to reserve. Full details are available on the Staten Island Zoo web site.  Come celebrate this yearly tradition!  We can get you there without any stress!

 

 

Royal Coachman Can Help You Make This Valentine’s Day Unforgettable!

Posted on: January 20th, 2012 by royalcoachmanww No Comments

Valentines Day is just around the corner and New York City is a very popular destination spot. The following are some tips on how you can make your day special in the New York City area.

 

Chocolate

Chocolate seems to be the aphrodisiac most often associated with Valentine’s Day. Everywhere you turn there are chocolate hearts of all shapes and sizes in the stores. But where can you go to get the best chocolate money can buy (i.e. devine handmade truffles). Visit http://gonyc.about.com/od/shopping/tp/best_chocolate.htm for a guide on the best chocolate spots in the city.

 

Places to Go for An Unforgettable Date

If you are the planner of the evening festivities to make a special day Valentine’s Day adds a little pressure into the mix. Everyone has a different idea of what is romantic and fun to do. Luckily New York City offers a montage of options for the hard to please. Check out http://gonyc.about.com/od/bestofnewyorkcity/tp/romanticplaces.htm for a few great places to visit.

 

NYC Valentines Vacation

For some it is more than a night out. It is a several day event. Valentine’s Day is a great time to get some great deals on hotel and attraction packages. Don’t wait to book your getaway, as some deals have a limited time offer. For some great vacation packages and hotel specials visit

http://www.nycinsiderguide.com/Valentines-Day-in-New-York-City.html#axzz1jifadnAl and get your reservations in today.

 

Pick an Event to Highlight Your Evening

New York city is a mecca of entertainment. If you go to NYC and can’t find anything special to do you’re not even looking. If you’re looking for some entertainment options on the basis of shows, dancing and socializing check out http://newyork.timeout.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-new-york/62820/valentines-day-events for some terrific ideas. Get your tickets early if required to guarantee an unforgettable front row seat!

 

Ride in Style

Of course we would have to mention a limousine is a way to get where you are going in style. We have a fleet of vehicles at your service! Instead of having to drive there yourself or fight NYC transportation on that special night book it right and make getting there with a hands free and stress free experience.

 

To ensure the most special experience on Valentine’s Day, give us a call!

Safety Goes Beyond Our Vehicles at Royal Coachman

Posted on: December 23rd, 2011 by royalcoachmanww No Comments

Many of you may have seen several reports on the news over the last year of hackers getting ahold of some pretty large corporations and having access to their customer’s private data.  Because of this, Royal Coachman has elected to have a Cyber Insurance Policy. This is something most limousine companies don’t carry, but we feel is essential with technology playing such a large part of all our businesses, to make sure our customers are covered as well as us in the event of a breach with data on our computers. Another example of why Royal Coachman has Cyber Insurance is that employees or drivers takes credit card information. We want to have that exposure covered and that is what the Cyber policy provides. Please note, however, although we have it, we’ve never had a situation where Cyber Insurance was needed to date.

What does the Policy Cover?

Our Cyber policy provides coverage for data stored in our computer systems as well as on paper.  Following types of acts that are included in our coverage:

  • Hacker Attack – someone hacks into your computer system and steals customer data;
  • Cyber Extortion – When someone says, “give me money or I will shut down your website.”  After this has been filed with the policy Cyber Liability may pay the extortionist so your website does not go down;
  • Cyber Terrorism – When someone is not requesting money but makes a threat to shut down your website if you don’t do something they want.  No money has been exchanged but they are threatening to stop your business for self gain.
  • Virus Transition – if there is a virus on your computer that leads you to lose all of your customer data;
  • Human Error – a person does not shred important paperwork, or leaves valuable data available to get in the wrong hands:  Old files with customers’ social security numbers was meant to be shredded but was thrown out in the trash.  Someone takes this information and sales it on the black market;
  • Employee Sabotage – an employee is upset with the owner so (s)he decides to get “even” by taking or giving out customers information;
  • Damage to Reputation – public is aware that your company gave out its customer’s credit card information, to help rebuild your reputation.
  • Power Failure – If data is lost due to a power failure;
  • Natural Disaster – If data is lost due to a natural disaster;

Who might need Cyber Insurance?

Any organization that holds sensitive customer information (credit card info, address info) or employee information (date of birth, medical issue, payroll, etc.) might need Cyber Insurance.  48 States have enacted privacy breach laws to protect consumers.  Many states require that companies must notify their customers whenever there is a security breach of their Personally Identifiable Information.  The law applies based on residency of the customer, not the company responsible for the breach.  .

 

What would happen if a Cyber Breach were to occur?

After a Cyber Breach, it is our legal responsibility to notify each person affected and alert them of what information is out there.  Clients may then need to be set up with Credit Monitoring and the length of time of this depends on the State law.  Cyber Insurance will also help restore your reputation and cover for loss of customers due to this breach. An official claim would be processed if this occurred.