Landmarks, NYC

Yesterday was a day of wandering without a map, today was a day of using a map to find things.  Joshua gave me a list of things he wanted me to take pictures of, if I could.  It was sunny day, 70 degrees!!

So I took the subway to the other side of Manhattan to the United Nations building.  It was interesting to see, but I wasn't horribly interested in going on a tour, so I didn't.

I looked at Joshua's list and saw the Chrysler building, looked it up, it was nearby, so I headed there.  On the way, I was famished, having eaten nothings since dinner last night (and it was already early afternoon), so I went to a Five Guys since all I wanted was a burger and fries.  All of the other places I stopped in had sandwiches for huge amounts of money, so I got something very filling for my money.  On to the Chrysler building.  I could see it through the trees and other tall buildings as I approached.  What an attractive building!

Across the street was a gorgeous art deco building named the Chanin Building.  I didn't go inside, but the outside wowed me.

After that, I looked at Joshua's list again and at my Google maps and noticed that the Empire State building and Flat Iron building were within walking distance, so I walked to them as well.  The sun was shining so brightly, I couldn't get a good picture of the Flat Iron building--the camera kept dimming it so that all you could see was the outline.  And since it was $35 to go up in the Empire State building, I let that go as well.

Walking down Park Avenue--the middle was lined with tulip trees and other white-blossomed trees.

An interesting entrance.

Pretty spring flowers everywhere--loved smelling the hyacinths.

Empire State Building

Then I rested at Madison Square Park and did some people watching for a little bit.  Then I noticed that if I retraced my steps, that Rockefeller Center (also on Joshua's list) was on the other side of the Empire State Building a ways.  On my way there, I saw the main library that I had wanted to see.  So I went in there and it was gorgeous.  It is mainly for research, not circulation.  The main reading room that is supposedly two blocks long was closed,  though.  It didn't look anything like the library in Day After Tomorrow.

A builidng bordering Madison Square Park

Seemed like an old-fashioned way to get water in such a modern part of the city

The main branch of the public library

The entrance hall

The rotunda

Then on to Rockefeller Center.  They had the foreground decorated for Easter with colored eggs and a topiary bunny that turned in a circle.  And the ice skating rink was set up!  Then I looked for the subway, but my app gave me the wrong directions, so I had to figure it out and eventually got back to my stop.  Walked back to the hotel and crashed on my bed.  My feet were so sore from all of that walking!!

St. Patrick's cathedral next to Sak's.

St Patrick's (across the street from Rockefeller Center).

On the other side of Rockefeller Center.

 Anneliese texted me when she was done with class at 8:30.  We met at Union Square (thank you Google maps!) then walked to S'mac with her roommate Jordana.  Everything there is Mac 'n' cheese.  Anneliese and I shared a medium tray of Cheeseburger, then Jordana went back to go to bed (she had to be up at 5:00) while Anneliese and I went to a small street called St. Mark's where there is the cutest little dessert shop, Spot.  She bought dessert for us and I wish I would've taken a picture--they were beautiful (and yummy! and expensive!).  I got the Yuzu Eskimo and she got the Harvest.  After that, Anneliese had a lighting project that was due the next day and I was exhausted (and it was 12:30), so she walked me to a subway stop and told me which trains to take to get back.  Well, some freaky thing happened on the F train.  At one of the stops (mine was next), it announced my stop next, then announced a different stop next without saying there was a change.  The online list of stops in the train car went blank, then reloaded with new stops.  It freaked me out, so I jumped off at that stop as the doors were closing and took an A instead.  Very weird.  My sore feet walked home from the subway stop and I went right to bed.