Tuesday June 02, 1998
Up early again today for breakfast, and to get Letterman tickets. We got the
stand-by tickets, which are given out by lottery, but we were numbers 73 and
74, so 74 people who have ordinary tickets would have to not show up before we
got in. We decided to try anyway. After getting the stand-by tickets, we
headed down to the Empire State Building.
Since it's a tourist attraction, and we were definitely tourists, we started
taking pictures right away, beginning in the lobby. We got pictures of Manhatten
looking south towards the World Trade
Towers and Staten Island, north
towards Central Park, and northeast towards the Met Life building
and [Queen's Bridge]. On the way out, we got a shot of the model of the Empire State Buiding (and,
of course, the cute girl working at reception). It was definitely worth it to
go up the Empire State Building: as the pictures show, the view from the top
is great. After we came back down, we went to McDonald's for some cheap lunch,
then headed over to Macy's, the world's largest department store. We actually
toured it as if it were an attraction :) Then we went to HMV, and then took
the subway to Juliard's and the Met. Juliard's isn't open to the public, though,
and the Met was closed, except to tours,
which we didn't have the time or the money to take. We headed over to Carnegie Hall, which was also closed. Then it was time to get over
to Late Night with David Letterman, where of course we didn't get in. In fact,
no one with stand-by tickets got in; everyone with normal tickets showed
up. We were pretty tired by now, so we wandered a bit aimlessly. We ended up
in the Sony "public place", which appears to be a place where the public can
just sit idly around, without any need to buy anything. Didn't expect that in
New York. After a bit of relaxation, we went to Bloomingdale's, and then Trump
Tower, which also had a "public place". We had dinner at a little deli called
Shlotzsky's, then headed down to Radio City
to get some pictures. While walking around all day, we were treated to a
symphony of horns, cabs cutting each other off, traffic cops blowing whistles,
and people jaywalking on every corner (but not in the middle of the street).
Welcome to New York, the city that not only never sleeps, but never even
rests.
Scott Barker (scott@mostlylinux.ca)
Rick Schuh (rick@fiercemouse.ca)
Scott Barker (scott@mostlylinux.ca)
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