A Melbourne girl - wherever she might be: New York

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

“Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.”

Its a crazy city and David Letterman was right - the traffic is madness!!! But I love it! And where else to show Murray the madness of this city than Times Square.

Grand Central Station - where sitting on the stairs is strictly prohibited. And where clearly its the cool place to be.

And as if we didn't spend enough money on basketball things at Phoenix or Boston, but we also went to the 5th Ave NBA Store - with a giant Lego Kevin Garnett.

As it was a grey and wet day in NY we took a very romantic horse and cart ride through Central Park - it was like something out of a movie!

We also went to the top of the Rockerfeller Building for a drink - great views, too bad our seats weren't that good. And then our converstation turned a little sour... all in all it was a part of trip that I'll just edit out. Great views though!

We also went to "Tom's Restaurant" - recognise it? Its the Senfield Diner! Small inside - much smaller than I'd imagined. Getting there though... that was interesting... We took the Subway waaay uptown and when we resurfaced we were in a quite undesirable part of town. We flagged down a cab quick smart and got ourselves outta there!!! Even the cab driver questioned what we were doing in that part of town!

Later that day we took the Straten Island Ferry so take a look at the beautiful views of NYC and the Statue of Liberty. It was nice just to sit down and relax for a while.

Also had a walk down Wall St... suitably deserted looking given the current state of the economy (and it was Sunday night!!!)

And so our stay in NYC came to and end. There is so much I want to do there, and 2 nights just isn't enough. I wish I'd been better organised and really planned out a few things. But most of all it was great just to be there together. But sadly, it was also close to the time Murray had to go home.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

New York - Random sites

Didn't get a chance to stop in for a brewski, but I did notice that they had "Aussie Happy Hour" from 4-7pm - now thats my kind of happy hour!

This is a site called Tiles for America - Remembering and Honoring those lost on Sept 11. Out the front of the nearby St Vincents Hospital there was a large notice board for missing persons. After time, any missing persons notices were taken down, and locals made tiles and this memorial in memory of them.

Don't fall!

Don't Honk! If only this sign were obeyed. I've never heard so much honking in my life. Honk honk honk HONK!

The first Macy's store... if you look closely you can see the shaddowing of the letters.

Little Italy.

I spy Ronald!

This is a really cool piece of public art. Its a clock! The first 8 numbers show the Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Milliseconds that have passed in the day - and the last 8 numbers (in reverse) show the time left in the day. So it was 21:24 (9.24pm) etc..