begin this new day in New York visiting the district Chinatown and Little Italy . The tour starts in
niostro Chatman Square where the statue of a bow and Lin Ze Xu mark the beginning the Chinese quarter. We follow the
Doyers Street, a typical L-shaped alley onto which different barber shops. There is a lot spocizia around, much more than in other parts, but the neighborhood is quiet. It is perhaps a little too soon for a visit. There are many stalls and it all seems a little off. Continuing along the
Bowery Street, where he teaches Chinese and shops lie one behind the other. Also appear on the first stalls that mostly dried food.
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| stalls in Chinatown |
will be for the gray or the fact that they are only about 9.00 am, but nothing draws us in particular.
Perhaps the neighborhood comes alive later in the afternoon. At the height of
Canal Street, the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge, is the Mahayana Temple Buddish , a small red building in the chaotic traffic whose entrance is guarded by two lions.
Within this place of prayer is a huge golden Buddha.
Let's go and ask if you can see the room. No problem, permission granted! To remain faithful
than at the end of the corridor that leads to it, where you can see everything without disturbing others.
respect the ban on taking photographs, though with sorrow, seeing the beauty of the place.
It 's a simple and rich environment at the same time. The floors are wooden, while the walls are red and lit by lanterns. Simple benches are placed in line for prayer.
The Buddha is great. Before him and to the sides of the room there are several offerings of fruit (oranges, apples) and flowers. The faithful come here to pray, leave these offers light and long wooden sticks.
It 's a very special place.
out of there in turn Mulberry Street, the main street of Little Italy . The signs have been replaced by Chinese ones, sometimes improbable, the Italian restaurants. Here, everything is red, white and green ... even an entire building! Too bad that they look inside the Chinese restaurants do not see that .... but then it is true that Chinatown is absorbing Little Italy?
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| A house in Little Italy |
Eventually we find ourselves in Canal Street where we take the subway to Central Park .
Our idea is to take a ride in the park after lunch and go to visit the MoMA ... but the day is gray and does not promise anything good.
We have just enough time to make a turn around The Pond strong that it begins to rain.
Here, because of the wind, we learned that umbrellas are very little, unless it has a size of a beach umbrella.
Within two minutes we were soaking wet, despite kway and umbrella. Can we rifugiargi under the canopy of the Jumeirah Essex Hotel but after fifteen minutes the downpour shows no signs of ending.
Since wetter than this it is impossible to be so we decided to head directly to the MoMa . Here
we find that a large number of tourists have had our own idea. Admission is packed!
With our CityPass go over the counter called "Will Call" where we break off tickets and send us to put down your luggage. Finally we
dry, but, due to air conditioning, makes a terrible cold!
This morning, we forgot to take the stitches, which are essential to visit any museum in New York! At 12:30 we pass to visit a new exhibition devoted to Matisse that we begin our visit from the fifth floor, so you can quickly climb to sixth. The MoMa
is a museum of contemporary art. In addition to recent productions very creative and artistic ideas, is also home to artists such as Picasso, Cezanne, Monet. On the fifth floor houses the majority of the paintings of these painters.
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| The entrance to the MoMA |
not love the very modern contemporary art, we appreciate this first part of the visit, including the Matisse exhibition, while we were a little disappointed by the gallery devoted to photography.
Some shots were brilliant and interesting, others, however, left us perplexed .... probably do not have the knowledge to appreciate them.
Fabulous, however, the building that houses the museum with a large central atrium and five floors interconnected by escalators and elevators and in which the dominant color is white alternating windows. Today
probably not the right one for a museum of this kind. We are tired and cold. We go out and have lunch in
' 810 Deli Inc, a deli with great food, not self service, but a rather high price.
After lunch we go to the hotel to change clothes and wet shoes and then get back in Midtown West to search for B & H the electronics store audio video and photos. We knew we ra huge, but so right thought we were not there! There is everything and is very organized with lots of clerks. To buy a product must go in its area, to place an order with a salesperson and then go to collect in an appropriate period after the speakers. At the end we buy what we were looking for. It was not so difficult and the staff seem quite competent. Resume
the metro and for the second time we have dinner at Aroma Deli II, we hold the purchases to the hotel and go by subway to Brooklyn to try and monopod just taken goal.
stroll along the Brooklyn Heights Promenade that offers a magnificent view not only on the Brooklyn Bridge, but also on Manhattan and its skyscrapers.
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| Panorama of Brooklyn Bridge |
Very nice and cute even around the neighborhood with nice houses and brownstone Delicious restaurants.
This latest trip has raised the average of the day that was mostly bad.
are now 11.00 am when we get tired at the hotel.
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