New York, Day One

Having started a new job a couple of days ago (more about that in another post), and them having nothing for me to do, I arranged to take a week off. So yesterday I talked to Peter and we booked a trip to New York! Unfortunately Jules could not come with us.

Anyway, we flew out of Birmingham on Continental for a rather uninspiring flight to Newark airport in New York, before catching the train into Penn Station in the city. From here we walked down to our hotel which was in Greenwich Village. After exhaustive searching and worrying when trying to book it, the hotel turned out to be pretty cool. A one bedroom apartment on Bleeker Street, fairly close to a couple of subway stations giving us easy access to the rest of the city.

Anyway, we dumped our bags, freshened up and walked back uptown to Times Square and from there to Central Park. The city (well just Manhattan, cause I did not get to the other parts) is absolutely fantastic. It has a vibe an energy that seems lacking in a lot of other places.

Oh, I forgot to mention, while looking around in Times Square, a woman from the David Letterman Show came over and asked us if we wanted to attend a taping (which of course we did), so we scored tickets to tomorrows show which sounded pretty cool!

After walking around Central Park, we headed back down fifth avenue (past all the posh shops) back to Times Square (which was pretty cool at night). It was about 8:30pm (or 2:30am British Time), so we were both fairly tired, so after grabbing a bite to eat at Applebees (a chain restaurant), we headed back to hotel to get some sleep.



The Flat Iron Building.



Empire State!



Street Scene.



Times Square.



More Times Square.



The Fuzz....



More Times Square.



Late Show!



Central Park.



Central Park.



Central Park.



The Posh Plaza Hotel.



Times Square by night...



All the pretty lights.