After buying hot dogs from a street vendor & eating them in Central Park, we hopped back on the Downtown loop and stopped for a walk around Greenwich Village and Washington Square.
Then into Little Italy, where a festival was underway on Mulberry Street for San Gennaro - who, we discovered, is the patron saint of Naples. Don't know anything else about him but if his festival is anything to go by, he loved a big party!
This summed up our thoughts pretty well:
We headed on down through the Bowery & East Village where we rejoined the bus. We had a bit of a wait and it was getting quite hot and humid so we were glad to finally sit down! Then we just had to be careful to stay awake until we reached Rockefeller Center.
Rockefeller Center is a huge complex of 19 buildings, mostly built in the 1930s. They include Radio City Music Hall and the NBC studios, and there's a courtyard which is an expensive restaurant in summer and an ice-skating rink in winter, but we were there to go to TOP OF THE ROCK - 3 levels of observation deck around the 70th floor. There was a short queue for the lifts, but the ride was very quick and they have a clear roof and lights all along the lift shaft so you can see them racing past if you look up.
At the top, there are the most amazing views - we spent ages looking around at Central Park, the Empire State Building, Central Park and so on, as the sun set and lights came out over the city.
Eventually back down, where there was a longer queue for the lifts - Top of the Rock gets busy at sunset!
We were a little distracted by the Lego shop in the centre...
... and the fun-with-tacky-photo-opportunities...
... but made it to Bill's Bar & Burgers for a very American dining experience. Rather later at night than we usually have dinner, but in New York everything was still lit up like day time.
Good fun, good music and good food, with plenty of left-overs to take back to our hotel room!
And after such a packed-full day, could we possibly keep up the pace tomorrow?
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