So many things to do in New York (2)
I am sure anyone who visits New York has a list of many things to do and places to see. My ‘to-do’ list included the Metropolitan Museum of Art where just walking along its halls is a wonderful experience.
Every art gallery I visit I always go to see the Impressionist paintings; I love them and remember many years ago I would buy the prints from various galleries and have them framed to put up around my home.
And the amazing sculptures….[not that I bought replicas of these for my home!]
We were very fortunate as when we visited the gallery, the MET Gala had recently been held with its theme of “China: Through The Looking Glass” so the displays were about traditional Chinese fashion – so with my love of China it such pleasant surprsise.
After the MET, my friends and I decided to stop by Grand Central Station as I had not been there on my previous visits to NY. Wow isn’t this just an amazing building; busy with people rushing about on their way to somewhere.
We stopped and enjoyed a drink and some snacks which afforded us the opportunity of checking out some of the people rushing to get a train or just enjoying a walk through this incredible station. 
A definite ‘must see’ for anyone living in or visiting NY.
And finally our last stop was a late lunch at Eataly – a magnificent marketplace where you can eat fabulous Italian food and drink Italian wine/shop for fresh Italian food; meats and cheeses/chocolates and biscuits/bottled sauces and absolutely everything Italian. I loved this place and my friends and I shared a pizza, some pasta and bread and a glass of great Italian wine. We walked around the marketplace after lunch and I could not believe the amount of foodstuffs etc that could be bought – truly amazing and there is even an Italian cooking school!
These stores are all around the world and one of my friends did pop into the Chicago store while we were there but said that the NY Downtown marketplace is so much better. I loved it!! Another definite ‘must see’.
As I think everyone knows, NY is famous for its bagels; our friends told us about a lovely little shop just a ten minute walk from the apartment that sold the most delicious fresh bagels with all sorts of toppings; my favourite – egg salad with chives. Along the way we passed gorgeous buildings and flowering bushes; benefits of visiting in the spring.
We planned and paid for a lot of our NY day tours from Australia and one was a bus tour seeing the sights of both uptown and downtown. We chose the Big Bus Tour Company and from our friend’s apartment we walked to the bus stop and sat upstairs on the bus, which afforded us the opportunity to see the buildings and other sights without any obstructions – and of course there are so many colourful sights in NY…
And of course my (and I think many others’) favourite building – the iron building…or flat iron building – one of the two but I love it anyway!
And that glorious Empire State Building [which we did go up to the top…but more of the views on another post]
And then there is the famous Macy’s…we did a bit of shopping there and my friends bought so (so) many clothes and shoes whilst I think I only bought one item…just not in the mood for shopping!
The Trump Building is always good to see and we stopped off to take a look inside [before the current US President was elected] and then to Wall Street and a beautiful church just there in-between the high rise buildings of NY.
We went past the Brooklyn Bridge and one thing I regret is not walking it…maybe another time.
And one photo I took was of a lovely old building with a huge skyscraper in the background…bit mystical I thought!
I think the best way to see a city is either walk or take the hop-on-hop-off bus tour…the bus allows you to see all the famous sights within a day or two!
