A Visitor Comes and Shows Me New York. Day 2.

 

Browsing the Grand Central Market, a foodie's delight.

We took the NBC Studios Tour where we saw the sets of several popular TV shows including SNL.

This guy wanted to charge us $225 for a tour of Central Park on his pedal taxi, but we talked him down to $80. He told us about all the movies that have been filmed in Central Park.

There were so many limbs down from the October snow storm. Ground crews were working furiously to get the park ready for the NY Marathon.

We got tickets to see The David Letterman Show purely by chance. A person on the sidewalk was trying to fill the audience for the 4:30 p.m. taping. This was really fun.  Condoleezza Rice was there talking about her new book!

I left my friend in front of the Half Price Ticket Booth to attend a benefit sponsored by Avon with my husband. My friend was able to get $70 tickets to see Jersey Boys. She loved it.

A Visitor Comes and Shows Me New York. Day 1.

A friend came to visit me and gave me a fresh perspective of the city. For one thing, she found a $15 shuttle service from LGA whereas I always get a $30 cab. (Of note, this same shuttle took her back to LGA on her return and actually parked and came inside to let her know -- sure beats flagging down a taxi!)

As we enjoyed our first meal together in NY at Cinema, we kept watching this van parked near our window. The driver was parked in that spot a long time and various people came and went, some talking outside the van, some getting inside to talk, but nothing was ever taken out of or loaded into the van itself. We suspected something strange was going on. It was parked in front of this phone booth that had a book on top of it. We thought it might be some sort of signal. Verrrry strange.