Iconic and odd NY, with plenty of cool too :-)

Where to start eh? Well for Dylan it was a trek to where the Flight of the Conchords was filmed. Here (we think):

From there it was to Times Square where the heavens opened and sent us scurrying into... McDonald's :-). And then, via subway, to the American Museum of Natural History. Very cool.

Then via a L O N G  wait in the beating sun, we viewed  'the immigrants' scultpure in Battery Park, Lady Liberty, the Manhattan skyline (with 2 of the WTC towers emerging) and the WTC memorial (a NY Times photo below)...

There is this really frustrating pattern here with queuing to buy tickets at one place and then moving to another to queue to get in - sometimes blocks away. Not helped when around the WTC/memorial site is such a construction zone! In fact we gave up on actually getting in there in the end. It had been a long day...


Back in Chinatown we were greeted by wafts of ancient music coming from Columbus Park where tai chi, mahjong and martial arts were all going on at the same time as a goat wearing pearls was being taken for a walk up Mulberry Street... She wouldn't look at the camera. Yep, anything goes here!

We bought fruit from a street vendor then headed to dinner (Dylan has a thing for Italian food)...we were beginning to get a sense of the size of the city as well as some of its many faces... For example in Soho we saw street art and pocket parks as well as boutique shopping. Then in Chelsea we saw more street reclaiming, a street market that went for blocks and blocks and blocks and a cool pop-up designer market... 

Before traversing The High Line. Wow! Now that is definitely an icon! Great planting, paving, furniture, views, food, music, art...and all on a disused railway line (more on NY parks in another blog soon!)

You get the picture :-). Plenty of heart here: iconic, odd and cool all at once sometimes!!


Denise