Finally this morning a bright sun shines ..... no more than we hoped!
It 's the perfect day to enjoy a walk among the most beautiful neighborhoods in Manhattan.
start with three quarters of the East Side: Union Square , Flatiron District and Gramercy .
are poorly pretentious, but far more quiet, with many public spaces, bars and restaurants.
Union Square has experienced a rich history of political and trade union disputes.
Our itinerary starts from Union Square Park, a pleasant park surrounded by elegant buildings and inhabited by many squirrels do not fear anything!
We take a good cappuccino from Petite Abeille and along the Broadway to the intersection with 20th Street where we turn towards Gramercy Park . At number 28 is the Theodore Roosevelt's Birthplace , rebuilding what was once the home where he was born the twenty-eighth president of the United States. The building site is of national interest, is managed by the National Guard and is home to relics that testify to the life of this president.
We ride around the park and back on Broadway where, after a while, we meet the handsome profile of the Flatiron Building . The building is extraordinary, both for the style for the unusual triangular shape. We are also well come to
Madison Square Park, another area of \u200b\u200bpublic green areas populated by several statues.
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| Flatiron Building |
Take the subway and we move to the discovery of two other districts: Greenwich Village and Soho .
Greenwich Village stands out for its cultural, social and artistic. It 's a residential area and, apparently, bohemian, even though we realized we did not. It also houses the headquarters of the New York University and for this reason it is populated by many young people.
not visit the university, but we let ourselves be groped by one of his store where we buy some shirts and sweatshirts. We go up Broadway to Grace Church , a neo-Gothic style church with beautiful stained glass windows and a high internal Giglia. E 'usual host organ and there is one right tonight, but we already have other plans.
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| Interior of Grace Church |
knob in the 'east 11th street to see two famous case, that of Oscar Wilde and the Weatherman House. The number should be 18:48 but the buildings that are leave us a little bit at doubtful.
retrace our steps and, shortly after Grace Church, see a shoe store, Zacky's , with several strange Featured Converse. We decided to go inside to see as we take a couple for Mara. It 'just another kind of store we visit .... but it is also the right one! Did not Dr. Seuss collection, but there are other versions Plaid and different textures.
The interior of the first floor bright thanks to large windows and is very technology with LCD screens hanging from the ceiling and loud music, but the goods are placed on tables in a very orderly wood. There are different brands of clothing including the U.S. 'inevitable Lewis. Conversations are downstairs, almost half involved local! At the end we choose a pair Lo-Top Plaid and another Hi-Top Pop Art . Even Marco
it fascinated and finally takes a couple of One Star Lo-Top . We're fine, we finally exempted from visiting the next shoe shops that meet, but the three pairs of shoes in addition to the mesh of NYU are quite a burden to carry for the rest of the day!
Satisfied shopping we head towards our next destination along the Bowery Street to the height of Houston Street. From here we return to the Broadway and enter into Soho, the shopping district par excellence, and fashion stores that are trendy. Here there is plenty of choice, and well-known chain of boutiques, shops and street vendors of vintage items. Traders will follow one after the other, housed in beautiful brick buildings built in the second half of 1800. One of these is the
Cable Building, right at the intersection of Broadway and Houston, made beaux-arts and characterized by the presence of ogival windows and two caryatids placed on the lintel input.
Once the site of a power station is now home to a chain store Crate & Barrel.
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| Cable Building |
proceed in turning over Prince Street to go see the St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, as indicated by our guide. This church was once an important religious center for Irish immigrants. The building has impressed there and we do not go inside, while in front there is a small red brick building that attracts most of our attention.
on Broadway and come back a little further, meet the wonderful Little Singer Building , another made of cast iron and brick building once the home of the factory's sewing machines.
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| Little Singer Building |
This part of Broadway is very beautiful from the architectural point of view and every meter reveals some interesting details. There is a lot of movement and many tourists come and go shopping.
Many businesses have set very specific, like that of All Saints, across from the Little Singer Building, the walls with several sewing machines.
will also be the last sunny day, but here everything is beautiful.
It would take more time to explore the side streets, walking calmly, without a clear destination. But the day is long (and weighing parcels of purchases) and we must continue if we want to visit as much as possible.
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| All Saints in SoHo |
intersection with the Broome, we still see the ' Haughwout Building , What was the first building to house a steam elevator. It has beautiful facades with arched windows supported by columns and an antique iron clock. It is considered the most beautiful building in New York cast of and, in fact, has a fine line very clean and elegant.
little further on is the store Yellow Rat Bastard , one that we had marked for the purchase of Converse. Despite the resolution not to get more in a shoe store, Mark leaves me with a backpack and packages entering and entering to see.
After a quarter of an hour of waiting began to worry about .... who knows what'll be buying ....
At the end when it leaves me reassured that there are no special Converse, but instead, there are a lot of strange and original T-shirts (take a trip on the site to realize this). He is all proud to have bought a Hello Kitty t-shirt for Jade. I note that the design is Christmas, but that did not upset!
return back along the Broadway and turn east Houston at the height of entering a new district: the Lower East Side . The urban landscape changes, there are more beautiful palaces in cast iron, but red sandstone buildings up to ten stories high. Tourists also have declined, the only ones we see are in queue to Katz's Deli , the restaurant made famous by Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally film.
would be the ideal place for our lunch, but there is too much to expect, so get along seeing from afar the white outline, regular and squared New Museum of Contemporary Art .
Our next destination and, perhaps, the place for lunch is the ' Essex Street Market, a beautiful covered market with fruit and vegetable shops, grocery stores, butcher shops and small local food businesses selling ethnic and special products. There are all good things ... Italian pasta, French bread .... practically no food from all over the world!
counted down to eat ' Essex Restaurant is open only for dinner but it folded on a nearby McDonald's around because there is nothing that inspires us and is already late!
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| A shop in Essex Street Market |
finished our burgers in the U.S. We go underground, then the first line B to F Columbus Circle where we take the train that leads to a Harlem . We
came all this way to come and take a look at St. John the Divine Cathedral , the largest religious building in the United States (not yet fully completed). It 'made according to different architectural styles, although the neo-Gothic to prevail.
If everything is big in America, St. John the Divine is an example.
Immense is an understatement and you know it just comes dentro.La high nave is endless and it is facing seven chapels. On the one hand there is also the Poets Corner to commemorate the most famous American writers.
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| St. John the Divine |
After visiting the various rooms we go out with a visit to the Riverside Church . We are in the Morningside Heights neighborhood , territory Columbia University, which has its headquarters here.
We will cross the College Walk along the main courtyard where you could see the statue of Alma Mater, which was not in front of Low Library, there are several large white gazebo. Despite being a quiet place from the outside world of the neighborhood, there are many students who wander through the buildings, they read a book or participate in groups sitting on the grass ... propio as seen in American TV series!
We leave behind what is one of the most respected universities in the world and we come to the Riverside Church . What we are facing is a beautiful Gothic tower with a high of 115 meters. Unfortunately, it was shut ... sin, in this wonderful day would have been nice to go up its platform to see the view from that part of Manhattan !
The last leg of our journey is the S. Grant National Memorial , known as Grant's Tomb, the tomb of General Grant, the hero of the War of Secession and president of the United States. This is a great mausoleum built in white granite. The entrance is preceded by a large scale and a portico with columns. The building, a square is topped by a tall dome.
or visit the interior, in addition to containing the remains of Grant and his wife, has some memorabilia of this historic figure.
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| Grant's Tomb |
The route is now completed and we should return to the hotel to prepare for the evening.
Rather than retrace our steps to reach the previous subway station decides to return to later. at the intersection of 125th St. and Broadway, and ..... surprise to discover that it is raised!
initially ran in the New York metropolitan area and this is one of the traits that remained active. It has a certain effect
reached by climbing up rather than go underground.
At this point we can think of the article I read just before leaving that he spoke of the realization is a park, the ' Hight Line , on the old path to the meter in the Lower East Side . Most likely we will not have time to go see it, but it is definitely suitable for those looking for something unusual.
Half an hour to travel through Manhattan and we're in Tribeca. A quick shower and we are ready for the evening program that viewers will see a jazz concert at Lincoln Center .
But we must be there at least an hour before because there are very few places available.
.... Then again ride with the subway that settles in Columbus Circle.
We buy a bagel with cheese (Philadelphia!) And the cold and walk to the Josie Robertson Plaza, the center of this great cultural complex that includes dozens of rooms for shows, the Metropolitan Opera House and the New York State Theatre. In the rush to
since we have forgotten the name of the hall where the concert will be held, so we request information to usher who tells us that there are no jazz events for that day.
We are a little confused ... may have been canceled at the last minute?
try again to contact police (grande!) now gives us all the informations we need.
We go through so the threshold of David Rubenstein Atrium time to book a table just vacated by an Italian couple, who, later, share with two Americans. We order a drink and expect the show to start looking a little around. The room is not very big, there are a thirty or so tables occupied mostly by elderly people, an area where day tickets can be booked for the tour will view Lincoln Center, and a modest bar counter. The walls are white and are characterized by the presence of two vertical gardens, the first we see inside a house. At the center of the room, behind a wall and under a big screen, has already prepared a piano. Beyond the shows that home is still a nice logo to rest and drink and surf the web for free as our neighbor is doing to "kill" time.
finally are coming the beginning of the show, the lights go down, the voices are silent and the artist is announced star of the evening: Judi Carmichael, pianist and jazz vocalist.
The evening promises to be exciting from the first intervention. Judi is a lovely artist who manages to entertain the public as well as its excellent quality music, with jokes about his life, his experiences abroad, the New Yorkers and the musicians who accompany him in the evening.
The New York Times called it "astounding, flawless and engaging" ... And he's wrong
as' exceptional ... much more than we had imagined.
Too bad the show ends soon, too soon. It 'so good and nice to hear that you'd be the hour!
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| Judi Carmichael at David Rubenstein Atrium |
We leave the David Rubenstein Atrium drunk and go back to the hotel we stop to take a slice of pizza from one room next to ours Duane Street Hotel Tribeca and eat while we organize the next day, the last, oh, us!, before returning home.
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