Washington Square
Central Park (although we did not stand three feet from Woody Allen and his bride, as our friends Mike and Stephan did three weeks earlier)
Hell’s Kitchen
Harlem (where we got let off a bus at Malcolm X & 147th and felt as if we had co-opted a world)
5th Avenue
Wall Street
South Seaport 
Times Square (whoa!)
New York skyline
Ellis Island
Chelsea
Lower East Side
Upper East Side
Upper West Side (Columbus Avenue)
Greenwich Village (where we much preferred the daytime to the night-time fare, which we found somewhat depleting)
Chinatown
Garment District
Financial District
Ground Zero (but only by bus, the enormity of the land mass and the loss unspeakable)
Buses: M1, M3, M5, M10, M15, M20,
Pre-Columbus Day Parade, which was thrilling
Staten Island Marathin, which I Freudianly mistyped for marathon
Cafe Riviera
Ulysses Pub (ouchy bouchy – poor service)
Metropolitan Museum Cafe – where brunch was delicious
Enoteca, on Staten Island – the best staff, food and service I can recall in my lifetime
Bloomingdale’s – generic and snobby, but which contains a pleasant-enough restaurant where, mysteriously, we were not told of the specials or asked about dessert, and where coffee was served in a glass mug instead of the beautiful white ones everyone else had. No idea what that was all about.
Chrysler Building, although we did not make it in and wish we had, especially over the compressed fiasco that was the…
Empire State Building, which, as I said… The line-ups were longer than the exit lines on the Titanic.
Statue of Liberty, which we saw and pleasantly occupied multiple times as we made our way back and forth on the ferry. (See Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem about same)
Flat Iron Building
Guggenheim Museum, which we did not have time for, having stayed too long at…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was monumentally overwhelming (pun intended)
The New Yorker
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, viewed from a city bus, the church doors wide open, candles flickering in the amber-lit entryway
Brooklyn Bridge, which we did not attempt to cross
The New York City Subway, which we did
Manhattan Bridge
Edith Wharton’s house (ahhhhh…)
Algonquin Hotel (ahhhhh…)
Shubert Theatre
Radio City Music Hall
Time Warner Building
Park Plaza Hotel
Museum of Modern Art
Macy’s
Tenement Museum
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What we missed:
The New York Public LibraryWhat is pending:
Bryant Park
Grand Central Station (awwwww…)
Bar American – recommended by neighbours, but which we missed on account of my having eaten too much for lunch at Bloomingdale’s
My article to the Times on the atrocity of their bus drivers.
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