NYC Day Ten Saturday 6th October 2012

Day 10 Saturday

Up early this morning and subway to the Rockefeller Center, finally got to go up Top of the Rock and wow what a great view, it was more spacious and a lot nicer experience than the ESB, the staff were nicer and no shouting. Explored all the floors for a while, it was nice to be able to recognise some of the places we had already been that week.

Got the subway down to W4th Street station to explore Greenwich Village. I had printed off a walking tour I found on-line so we followed that, half way through it we stopped at Rocco's Pastry shop for a drink and we had a French lulu pastry, in hindsight we should have got smaller ones but they were very tasty.

 

Finished the walking tour and found a big market going on along University Place, we walked all the way through the market to Union Square , however noticed that the stalls seemed to repeat them selves after every junction, I got some glass necklaces for me and a T-shirt for my Nephew, headed back to the village to Bleeker Street, got some bread and cheese to take back to the hotel.

Carl was tired so I left him in the room and had a wander around Macy's, it was very busy and I am sure they moved all the clothes I liked the previous visit as I could not find them, did find the Christmas bauble department by accident though!

That evening we were going to a concert in Brooklyn Heights, we first walked down 5th Avenue to near the Flatiron Building to the Madison Square Eats festival, we only wanted something light for tea so tried a Beef Wangding from the Aisiadog stall.

 

We got on the subway at 28th Street near the Flatiron in good time but due to weekend works got swapped around a lot and only just got to the concert on time, result panicky Zoe, arrived in time after all but very hot and bothered, lovely cold drinks waiting for us though, love the abundance of ice here!

The concert organiser was a lady called Coco Wilde and she gave us a lovely welcome, we had booked our tickets via email, in the email she had let us know that they were collecting donations of non perishable items for a homeless project so we took a donation of canned goods and she was surprised and pleased that we did as requested. The concert venue was an old church room with great acoustics which was why they called it First Acoustics, here is their link http://www.firstacoustics.org/Index.html they have lots of events coming up. We saw a duo called Buskin & Batteau supported by Freebo, it was a great evening and we got back to the hotel without any more subway issues.