Today is our last full day in NYC, and the grey skies and drizzly rain reappeared. We headed off to the tiny flea market at Hells Kitchen which wasn't able to hold our interest for more than five minutes - almost not worth the trip.
However around that area we were running into people dressed in superhero costumes, and we figured out that the NYC Comicon was on. We followed the crowds and had a look at some of the costumes people had dressed in, at one stage there was a group of people (many of them in Spiderman costumes for some reason) doing a bit of breakdancing, which was fun to watch for a while.
From there we walked to a cafe near Times Square which was advertised as having "Australian-style" coffee, and had a flat white. The main differences between the coffee here and what we had become used to in the US were that a) it actually tasted OK, and b) the small coffee was actually a small coffee. Of course we met some other Aussies there, and they told us that this was their 10th visit in 10 days.
After our proper coffee fix we caught the subway down to the south end of Manhattan. We weren't really paying attention though, and somehow we ended up in Brooklyn, so had to change trains and return to Manhattan - how did that happen? When we finally made it to the correct station we managed to evade the horde of touts trying to get us onto a boat to the Statue of Liberty. and reached Battery Park, where we walked in the rain along the Esplanade, getting a final look at the Statue of Liberty.
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