Day two Part 1: Chinatown, Little Italy, SoHo, West Village, Flatiron

January 7th, 2008

We started the day very early and took some pictures on Times Square. After that we took the train to South Ferry because we wanted to go to Liberty Island to see the statue of Liberty. But when we arrived, we recognized that the weather is that bad, that you can’t even see the statue from Battery Park. So we decided to cancel the ferry ride to Lady Liberty and check out South Street Market instead. There we went wild in the ultra-packed Abercrombie store and bought a lot of stuff in there.
We brought our stuff back to the hotel and took the train to Canal street to explore China Town and Little Italy, again with a little help of our Lonely Planet Guide and it’s Walking Tour recommendations. We took some pictures of the fresh seafood and meat stalls and had a nice Cappuccino in an italian cafe.
Warmed up, we headed a little north east to wander around the shops and boutiques in SoHo from where we took the 6th Ave north to Christoper Street, another starting point from a Lonely Planet Walking Tour through the village. There Ewa fell in love with a few puppies playing in the shop window of a small pet shop. Really cute
For most of you maybe nothing special but on of my alltime NYC favourites is on Grove and Bedford St. This is the adress where most of television show „Friends“ takes place, so the house where Monica’s and Joey’s appartments are, which yo’ve maybe seen a million times in the show. Actually the show is produced in Los Angeles, but here is where the storyline takes place, very cool! After a quick beer and and a Moroccan tea in the Mustache on Bedford St we headed north-east to Washington Square park, which was kind of a huge building lot at this time, so combined with the cloudy weather far away from picture worthy. We took the 5th Ave north to Flatiron district to take some pictures of the famous building where this area got it’s name from and moved on to the Empire State Building where we made a pitstop at Wendy’s before entering New York’s tallest building at this time. While standing in the queue, which was not so long, we decided to cancel our ESB visit because of bad weather and the upcoming sundown. The idea standing up there in a cold and dark cloud was not very motivating for us. And so we made our way north again to visit a few other sights (more in next post).