Susan and I were leaving New York (from a much shorter visit) just as you were arriving. It is funny how many of our experiences paralleled yours. If yu don't mind me piggy-backing on your thread:
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New York
* Lucked out big time with weather. First two days were positively gorgeous, sunny, and warm. Later in the week it got cloudy and muggy, but didn't rain as the weather reports kept threatening until a small bit on Friday.
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The weather was amazing while we were there. cool, crisp fall air.
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* Liberty and Ellis, powerful as ever. We didn't figure out the song and dance about reserving a time slot to get into the base to see the museum or climb to her foot, but whatever. Just being on the island is experience enough and I think I just would have been pining for the days of the crown visits anyway. As descendants of the very people from whom come the mythos of that statue and that island, it's feels very personal to be there. And, even accounting for the extra-positive spin that was surly put on the information, it's nice to learn that for all of the exhaustion and confusion that the immigrants surely went through, the process was (at least until quotas came around) weighted on the side of helping rather than turning away as many people as they could.
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We actually made the rezzies to go in the base. With that privilege, we also received the honor of waiting in another 1-1/2 hour line for a second security check (after the initial hour wait to get onto the boat. For what we got to see, it was NOT worth the extra wait. Because of the additional wait, we did not get to see Ellis (for which I am now disappointed), and we ended up missing our Sunday matinée for Avenue Q (though they did honor our tickets for the evening performance).
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* Oh that the Great Park might have even a fraction of what Central Park has.
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I never understood the fuss about Central Park until I walked through it.
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* The Met, awesome as ever, but bloody hell do I hate the layout. We got so lost in there. By the time we got there, we had long since given up on trying to take it easy, it's just not in us. Too much to see and do to slow down and take our time. But the Met definitely put us over the top on the exhaustion scale. But oh so worth it. I'll let the photos (eventually) speak to the highlights there.
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I agree on the layout - especially with the one large section closed for remodeling. But I could easily spend a couple of (full) days in that museum!
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* Food. Got a great slice of pizza (Marco Polo pizza, SE corner of 92nd and Madison, near the Goug), corned beef and cheesecake at Lindy's, great meal and drink at Opia (second floor lounge/restaurant at 57th and Lex), and an otherwise perfect filet at "Above" in the Times Square Hilton that for reasons beyond me had some sort of mayonnaise sauce on it. Hooray food.
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OMG, the food! Whether it is the bagel and coffee at the diner across from our hotel to the wonderful steak at Bond 45 (food always tastes a little better when someone else pays for it) to the AMAZING BBQ at Virgils (44th at Broadway - just off of Times Square) and even the pretzels from the street vendors - Manhattan is all about the food.
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* Broadway
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I loved
Avenue Q. And I am always amazed at how small the theatres are in NY. Also on our list of contenders were
Spamalot and
The Putnam County 25th Annual Spelling Bee. And while we were there, we also thought
Xanadu might be fun!
By the end of our two days there, I was finally starting to get the hang of the subway.
And after we left, I really had a strong desire to live there for a year or so. I think one winter would be all I could handle. But there is so much to experience there, I think I would need a year to experience it all.
Sorry for the highjack!