City Tour Day Two

I feel like I'm writing about Asia again.  adamrtw.blogspot.com

We met up with some of my B-school classmates to head to Flushing for authentic Chinese.  Just so you know, Flushing is superior to Chinatown.  However, since it's in Queens, you don't hear about it as much.

Welcome to Flushing

Flushing looks quite similar to Asia.  Check out the pictures on the Asia blog and compare.

Yes, that's lobster.

We settled on Dim Sum.  It was wonderful.  I'm not sure exactly what was inside those dumplings, but it couldn't have been scarier than what I ate in Taiwan.

After the feast we went to Astoria and Long Island City.

View from Astoria of Manhattan.

The nice part of LIC.

Next we headed through Brooklyn and went to Williamsburg to see hipsters.  We actually found more Jews than hipsters, but it was worth the trip for the culture clash.

After walking through Cobble Hill and downtown, we made it to the East River.

Manhattan at sunset.

Good view of the harbor.

Statue of Liberty!

That's the new WTC under construction.

Brooklyn Bridge.

We tried to eat pizza at Grimaldi's but the 2.5 hour wait just wasn't going to work for us.  Instead we ended up walking the Manhattan Bridge.

This picture alone made the walk worth it.

The rest of the night didn't really go as planned.  We ended up wandering for hours, but managed to eat pizza, thai, and macaroons along the way, so it wasn't a total loss.

Day two was pretty exhausting physically.  At least the weather was nice.