The day after our visit to the World’s Fair, my mother and I took a morning Gray Line motor coach sightseeing tour of Manhattan. This was my first visit to New York City. The tour bus took us around Manhattan, stopping by the United Nations Building and Lincoln Center, passing through Times Square, and then driving along Central Park to Harlem. Later, we went up the Empire State Building for a view from the observation deck and made a trip out to Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty up close. Our hotel was the Park-Sheraton Hotel, near Times Square, an imposing brick edifice from the 1920s that looked like my conception of a big city hotel. We had tickets one evening for the musical Funny Girl at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. Barbara
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