Whilst in New York City, we wanted to see a Broadway, or an Off-Broadway show. We heard we could get some discount tickets at this queue in Times Square called TKTS booth, but you had to go on the day you want to see the show. We were there by 9:30am, because the TKTS booth opened up at 10am. The queue wasn’t so bad, and it started moving right at 10am. As we came nearer to the front, we realised that the tickets were for matinees only and for none of the shows we wanted to see! We should have read further, because in order to get evening tickets, you have to show up at 3pm. Darn it!
We then decided to do plan ‘B’ schedule, yes we make several plans for the day in case one plan for whatever reason doesn’t work out, like our big plan to see a Broadway show. Plan ‘B’, entailed going over to Rockefeller Center, but we got sidetracked, just for a moment or so, with the lights of Radio City Music Hall. At Rockefeller, we went up to the observation deck, which was built during the Depression back in the early 30′s. We saw black and white photographs of construction workers eating lunch perched high about the city on steel girders. The top of Rockefeller is aptly named, Top of the Rock. It was a cloudy, foreboding sky, but that didn’t stop of from seeing a spectacular view of New York City and we could see just how big Central Park is. We even got to see what we think is one of the best luxury hotels in New York, our hotel! Up here, there’s plenty of room to walk around and the glass panels have gaps built into them to make it easier to take photographs. We really liked it up there, we stayed for at least two hours!
After a short moment at the Rockefeller Plaza, we walked a long ways down Fifth Avenue, we passed Saks and the Empire State Building. Eventually, we reached the Flatiron Building, which is shape in a triangular shape to fit the junction of 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue. We walked further down and found a little food market in Union Square, we sampled a lot of the local produce, which was pretty tasty. It was getting on to be 2pm, so we headed back to Times Square to once again get in the queue for discount tickets. This time the queue was quite long, we waited an hour and a half, only to discover that the tickets we wanted, even at a cheaper rate, were still too expensive. But, we actually did enjoy waiting in queue, the conversations in front of us and behind us were fantastic to listen to. We really got a taste of some of the neurosis with which New Yorkers bear. We even considered going back in line to see if the conversations would be just as interesting.
But, we decided to move on to plan ‘C’, the Chrysler Building and Grand Central Station!