Last day in NYC
First thing I did on Friday morning was running into Captain Jack Sparrow at Times Square. I just had to take picture of him, and then he told me "Come here skinny girl" so oh well, I ended up paying him 1 dollar for taking a picture with him :) I look kind of awkward in the pictures though...
On this day we were planning to see the international parts of NYC and Brooklyn bridge. First on the list was Korean town, which is actually only the smaller version of the real Korean town (it was only one street). The real one is in Queens but that was a bit inconvenient to go since we only stayed for few days.
And of course we had our lunch there, Korean food is just so delicous. Here on the table we got cold noodles, bibimbap and side dishes. Side dishes are free!
Then off we go to Brookelyn bridge! Here is some street pictures on our way there
Trinity Church
Wall street.... Doesn't look special at all. I guess everything special there is what's going on inside the business buildings.
And the Charging Bull represents when the stock market goes well (bull market). Since, in fact, it was nothing more than a statue of a bull I didn't bother trying to get through that crowd to take a better picture.
Going to Flatiron District...
...to see the Flatiron building. As you can see, it's famous for being shaped as a flat iron.
In the subway waiting for the train. I was suprised the subway is so much worse than I had expected from one of the richest cities in the world. It's far worse than ours! It was so loud that every time a train arrived or just passed by I had to cover my ears!
And it doesn't look fancy at all, just like a bunch of connected metal bunkers.
But of course with the US flag. Patriosm is never lacking here.
You see, I'm just "fashionably late" when I'm late ;)
City hall where the mayor of the city works at. It wasn't much of a special building, just really big with a tiny park around it. People where hanging out in the park and sun tanning or drinking coffee.
On this building it says both "New Amsterdam" and "New York". New York was once called New Amsterdam you know.
There was a lot of street food everywhere and here comes the next issue I was suprised about NYC. It was sooo smelly!! From food or cooking food (sometimes it even was smokey and smelled burnt) and from sewage and trash.
In the picture below you can see the Freedom Tower, built in memory of 9/11
Interesting looking building...
And Brooklyn Bridge! It's one of the oldest suspension bridges in the States, completed in 1883.
Unfortunately you don't get much of a view on this bridge. This is the best shot I could get, and I was standing on a bench stretching up my arms to take this picture!
The other side was even more of a disappointment. Why did they put up that ugly wall looking thing blocking the view?
It was really hot this day and as you can see, it was sunny and almost no clouds in the sky. Since we couldn't get a better view than this, we didn't walk all the way to Brooklyn, we turned around here.
The NYC supreme court house
And so we arrived to China town!
And I only saw ONE Chinese looking building. Well the town is big so there could have been more but over all it looks just like any other less fancy part of New York, but with Chinese things being sold instead and some Chinese characters here and there.
But something big must have happened nearby, look at the lines of all police cars passing by! There were at least seven of them.
Well this looks like China. And it was crowded just like in China and had Asians and tourist everywhere.
We went to China Town Ice Cream Factory which we read is worth a visit. Many more people had heard that too, and even though it seemed quite famous and popular, the actual place it super tiny. So tiny that you have to squeez into the store, try to order and then very carefully get out before someone acidentially smash the ice cream you just bought in your face. There was no room for chairs to sit on in this tiny store.
But the ice cream was good and they had many interesting flavors. I got Lychee flavor
And Issac tried sweet potato flavor!
Nice American car!
Seems like even being in the US doesn't help with Chingrish (Chinese-English). Virgin chicken??
Opposite side of China town was Little Italy
Basically looked the same as China town and rest of NYC but with Italian names on the restaurant and cafées.
We were going to eat at a vegitarian pizza place that also was quite famous, but like any other place it was packed with people and when it finally was our turn to write our names on the waiting list, another women just BARGED IN, ignored us and signed up her and her boyfriend´s names before us. Worst thing was, she only had to wait a short while to get a table, while we were told to wait for 45 minutes!! We did not have 45 minutes to waste. That was the rudest person I met in New York. Other people had been nice and more or less met us with courtesy. Anyway, we simply went to another pizza place nearby that also served somewhat Italian pizza.
The calzone was only filled with cheese!!!! It was not good... But the other pizza slices on the pictures above was good.
After an early dinner we were off to the bus station. We got there a little bit earlier than planned so since it was next to Times Square we walked around there for a little bit and encountered this freaky show on the street. He was HAMMERING A NAIL INTO HIS NOSE! Gross!!
It's inside his nose! No way!
Pulling it out!
So as to summerise the past three days I've shown to you, I enjoyed the trip it was fun finally seeing The Big Apple with my own eyes. However, I can't say I love New York, but I don't hate it either. (The NY water bottle was actually not more expensive than other water bottles so I bought it as my souvenir). It has some fancy and cool street, but is very crowdy, smelly and loud. Somehow reminds me a bit of China... I liked the museums and Central Park the most and would like to go here again, but not to live in this city. It would be too stressful and my ears would probably fall off if I had to take that subway everyday.
i hope you all enjoyed the pictures! Right now we don't have much planned for this week more than studying. Maybe I will upload some more pictures of food and of Worcester ;) Next Monday however, we are going to Issac's host family in Harrisburg. Harrisburg doesn't have much but it's the capital of Pennsylvania state. In August we are going to Philadelphia as Issac will move in to his apartment there. So expect more pictures later on!
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Oh vad många fina bilder från NY, jättehärligt! Känner igen i stort sett allt utom bilderna från Metropolitan museet. Kul att se. Malou
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