Pat and I met in NY on April 2 for a weekend in the big city. We stayed at the Times Square Hilton right in the thick of things. Meredith met us at the hotel - turned out we were only two blocks from her bus stop. We then headed to Soho (SOuth of HOuston for those not in the know; another well known area TriBeCa is TRiangle BElow CAnal) and had pre-dinner drinks at Famina (sp?) with an excellent scallop appetizer followed by a superb seafood meal at Aquagrill. We started with a wonderful selection of oysters followed by great seafood.
Saturday, Pat and I headed to Museum of Natural History and focussed on the dinosaurs. Then a walk across Central Park. Someone was really thinking when they set aside this huge area for a park - most of the park had no trees when it was designed - hard to tell that now. It was very early spring with forsythias and daffodils blooming. We then tried to head downtown to our hotel but the subway was under construction - we ended up going from about 59th to 125th so we could turn around and go back to 42nd street. We met Meredith and went to eat at quaint, unique restaurant before going to see Fiddler on the Roof which Pat and I really enjoyed - we had great seats in the center mezzanine. From there back to the hotel where we had after dinner drinks at the hotel bar.
Sunday, Pat and I went to see the WTC site - there isn't much to actually see but it does give one a good idea of the enormity of the disaster. We stopped by Chinatown and decided this was not worth the visit; from there we took the subway to Grand Central Station. It is a grandiose and beautiful building - I had not seen it before but the ceiling had become almost black from years of smoke and dirt before renovation a few years ago.
We topped off the trip by taking the Boulevard East bus to Weehawken and going to Meredith's for supper. She has a unique, very comfortable apartment on the 2nd floor of an old house. We were the happy participants of a raclette dinner. It was a great weekend.