Brooklyn Bridge
The sun is back! It was a gorgeous day in New York today :O)
We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge this morning which was lovely. We'd been planning to go to Grimaldi's for what's reported to be the best pizza in NY but my guide book was a bit rubbish and gave me the street but didn't include that street on the map. OK I admit it, we got a bit lost and it may possibly have been my fault. Although it was most definitely more the fault of the rubbish guide book! Anyway it all turned out for the best because we had a big ole walk through Brooklyn and ended up in a really nice part in front of a lovely cafe called The Habana Outpost (on Fulton St - not Old Fulton St where Grimaldi's may or may not possibly be!) which was probably much better anyway and served fab Brooklyn Beer for only $2.75 :O)
We took the Subway back into Manhattan and had a good mosey around Chinatown, Little Italy and the Lower East Side.
Columbus Park in Chinatown is just wonderful - its jampacked full of older Chinese folks playing Mah Jong and Checkers (remember how disappointed I was in San Fran when Washington Park turned out not to have any? Well I was equally as thrilled to find that Columbus Park does!) its all very serious and intense and highly debated. Fantastic to watch.
I adored Little Italy. The photo opportunities are endless and it really does feel like you've been transported back to the 50's. We had a gelato (not an ice cream, a gelato) on Broome St and Mulberry and I could just picture Frank and Dean wandering down here in and out of all the bars wowing the ladies and strutting their stuff ;o)
And as we were on East Houston St after wandering along Delancy and through the Bargain District I had to have a wee look at Katz's Deli. I've seen When Harry Met Sally so many times I could probably order just what she had in there!
We hadn't planned to do anything more today but we had a bit of time left before getting dinner so we thought we'd swing past the Empire State Building and just see what the queues to go up were like. Everyone I've spoken to and all the guidebooks say get there really early because the wait is horrendous and the queues unimaginable. We wandered in, straight through to the tickets booths, straight up in the lift, quick walk to the other lift and there we were! Just like that! No wait, no queue just as long as it took to walk through. Pretty jammy huh?
And it was AWESOME!!!! Truly. Just fantastic :O)
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