Jacob drove along Central Park Ave looking for a parking spot. We finally found a parking garage and then walked over to Central Park. We went past Sheep Meadow, crossed the Bow Bridge and got a pretzel from a food stand there. We continued around the lake and saw lots of people biking and running on the roads inside Central Park. We saw several statues including Hans Anderson, Shakespeare, Alice in Wonderland, and the Balto statue, which was definitely the coolest one.
We left Central Park and drove through Times Square on our way to 34th street to eat pizza at a place Jacob had found on his layover in New York when returning from Israel. We finished our pizza on the steps of a church building as it started to drizzle again, then walked back to where we had parked the car and headed to the bottom of Manhattan island, driving by the Brooklyn Bridge. We parked again and walked to the Staten Island Ferry so we could ride it to see the Statue Of Liberty.
While ferrying to Staten Island, we crossed into New Jersey for a short time, and once we had docked we just turned around and caught the same ferry back to NYC. We got back to the car and made our way through heavy traffic (Jacob's still driving) to the B&H Photo - Video - Pro Audio store on 9th Ave and 34th St. This is a 3 story electronic SuperStore that has everything from Hollywood production camera rigs to simple point and shoot cameras, 85 inch 3D flat-screen tv's to 27-inch iMac computers, piano keyboards and synthesizers to waterproof speaker systems and much more. This where Jacob has purchased practically all of his camera gear from, and most of my GoPro attachments, albeit we purchased everything online. After browsing through some awesome equipment we retrieved the car and left New York City via the Lincoln Tunnel.
And so ends our New York adventure, with us driving late that night until we stopped to sleep in a hotel before reaching our relatives in Pennsylvania the next morning.
Next Stop: Hustontown, PA.
-John
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