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Published: March 19th 2011
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Oioi!
So my last two days in NYC ... 😊 were plain awesome.
I didn’t get around to posting anything yesterday because yesterday it was :D GAMENIGHT hell ye!
So the NY Knicks Played at home, in the Madison Square Garden which is the worlds most famous arena as I have been told about a thousand times in there.
And it is quite a cool arena as I probably had one of the worst seats in there and the view was still actually quite good.
So After some shows, little games and that sort of stuff the game started.
First two quarters things were pretty close but after that the Knicks, leaded by Carmelo Anthony, Amar'e Stoudemire and a stunning Toney Douglas(boy when he shot 3 3pointers in a row the arena was on fire, bursting out every time he touched the ball) pretty much hammered Memphis ending the game99-120.
So with a first night to remember behind me I travelled to the hostel a content man for my final night in NYC 😊
OK, so that was the last part I wrote in NY as I am now in a hostel in Washington DC.
But I'll get to that
Miss Liberty in the distance
Strangely tho in real life she was much closer and you could see her muh better. later, ill start where I left off last time, Thursday morning.
So I wanted to start with going to Liberty island, but since that was over 150blocks away I decided not to hike it this time but rather take use of the subway system.
Which went surprisingly well after being told it was quite tricky, but I had no problems with it so found myself staring at Miss Liberty 20Minutes later, separated only by a 100meter stretch of water... and a by St. Patricks day enforced 300meter waiting line for the ferry *sigh*
So since I did not feel like being in a line for over 2or3hours I figured I’d try again the next day and moved on after enjoying the view for a while.
So I started walking towards the nearest thing of interest which happened to be Ground Zero, which turned out to be a giant construction site basically.
I arrived around noon so just in time to enjoy a slice of pizza in company of quite a few, a small army really, construction workers.
Revitalised by this meal I set off again with my aim for Brooklyn bridge but before I got well on my
way I stumbled upon a little chapel dedicated to a certain St.Paul …
I was intrigued so went in to check it out 😊
It turned out to be quite the lovely chapel and the best of all there was a choir singing in there which sounded marvellous(i like this kind of a-cappella singing 😉 ).
So if I had been in any other city than NY I would have probably stayed a bit longer to listen to the rest of the singing but as fate had it I wasnt, so alas, it was time to move on!
After a bit of a walk I arrived at the water, just underneath Brooklyn bridge.
The time was just about right for a little rest, so I sat for a while on a little bench with a lovely view of both brooklyn/manhatten bridges and brooklyn at the other side of the water.
After finding the courage to go at it again it didnt take me long to figure out it istn allowed to walk brooklyn bridge.
So I did the next best thing, walk in the other direction, straight in to … Chinatown ;p
And it is as amazing as u
can imagine.
From one block to another u walk from NYC to a Chinese town.
All the people, all the signs, all the stores, even our beloved McDonals is chinese!!
This all being very amusing, I did start making my way non the less to the next checkpoint, little Italy.
However before I got there I noticed a sign saying 'Manhattan bridge – pedestrians' yey
Since I know an opportunity when I see one, and I was pretty sure this was one, I followed the sign.
As it turned out Manhattan bridge is obnoxiously long and evenly shaky everytime a train passes the pedestrian walkway at about 2meters .
So obviously in fear of my own life I carried on for the greater good of making a few cool pictures and getting to Brooklyn, home of gang violence, illegal prostitution and the highest homicide rates in north eastern states.
HAH XD no, that was a little joke, it turned out to be a rather nice place.
Where compared to Manhattan the buildings are smaller, perhaps the streets a little less maintained and ye the population being mostly african-american in the suspectable settings of basketball courts, busy streets and whatnot.
But the neighbourhood being just as nice, or even nicer as it did not take 5seconds both times I opened my map before being offered help.
But me getting hungry and it getting later meant it was time to take the subway to Times square, where I enjoyed the company of a, well, infestation of drunk Irish and wannabe Irish all being ever so cheerful at celebrating St Patricks day.
So from there I strolled my way to the arena, Madison Square Garden...
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