We had to dress warmer to go out today, we could feel the chill in the air as soon as we stepped outside, we thought it would be cooler in New York, but not as cold as this!
We caught the subway to the Brooklyn Bridge and walked across to Brooklyn using the information from a self-guided tour to identify the points of interest along the bridge and the Manhattan skyline. One weird thing we saw was that as well as the usual locks that star-crossed lovers put on bridges, there were hundreds of sets of headphones (apparently there are also condoms and tampons, but we didn't see any of those).
On the other side we walked along the Brooklyn Promenade, then back through the DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) area.
After that it was back on the subway to visit Grand Central Station, which was busy, clean and quite glamorous looking, but also a bit dark with no natural light. Then to Times Square to pick up some cheap Broadway tickets.
We joined the incredibly long queue for half price tickets, but it moved quite steadily. By the time we'd reached the front of the queue we still hadn't decided what to see, so we flipped a coin, and bought tickets for "Something Rotten".
After a quick visit back to "our" apartment to get organised for the evening, we made it to the St. James Theatre in time for the 7pm show. The theatre was a bit smaller than we expected, we had seats in the fifth row which gave us a great view of the stage. The show was OK, the writing was clever in parts but many of the jokes were a bit lame and obvious, we did enjoy the show but it wasn't as good as we thought a "Broadway" show would be, so not a high recommendation from us..
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