After such good weather, we were back to the rain that seems to have followed us from Britain and inflict itself on us every few days! So we decide to stroll down 5th Avenue for a bit of window shopping, and spend way too long drooling over the new iPhones. Afterwards we headed to a comedy night at Crash Mansion on the lower East side, which featured some great musical comedians (musicedians?). We also checked out Brooklyn Bridge, went shopping in South Street Seaport and had great wonton soup in Chinatown's Bo Ky, which looked like the kind of place the old man from Gremlins would frequent. On our last day, we queued for hours to visit the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island - although it was well worth the wait. The view from Liberty Island of the Manhattan skyline is great and Ellis Island is pretty interesting, especially if you can trace your roots. We also checked out the World Trade Center site, which currently looks like a building site but the Freedom Tower and memorial plans look very impressive. All in all, I don't feel we did half the things we wanted to do in NY but that's the beauty of it - there's always our next trip...
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