We get up late, have breakfast and take the subway to Queens. Our first stop is Chinatown in Flushing. It's very authentic, grocery stores (mushrooms, noodles, soybeans), restaurants... We eat there, in a Chinese restaurant, it was all delicious.
Chinatown in Queens
Chinatown in Queens
Chinatown in Queens
Then we take a walk in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, it's huge, it's Sunday and people play football, baseball, hockey. There's a lot of people having a picnic. We approach the Unisphere, the largest globe in the world, built for the 1939 Universal Exhibition.
Unisphere
Across the street is the New York City Building now home to the Queens Museum of Art. Nearby are three worn-out Cold War-era towers, New York State Pavilion (they were part of the NY pavilion for the 1964 Exhibition).
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Nearby the Queens Theater with sticks that end in a circle, looking like flying saucers, are in Will Smith's Black Men movie. On the catwalks of the subway station there are mosaics by Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol.
We have dinner in Williamsburg in an Italian, 3 pizzas for 5. We meet Wilson, an ecutarorian who lived in Spain for 14 years and has his daughters there.
Dinner: Italian restaurant 3 pizzas for 5 75$. Very good, especially the one with arugula, salmon and pistachios.
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