New York day 9: Harlem, Brooklyn Knickerbocker and Lower East Side.
Today we start the shopping day, let's go to Knickerbocker Av, it's a commercial street in Brooklyn with clothes and shoes at a good price.
Knickerbocker Av.
Today we start the shopping day, let's go to Knickerbocker Av, it's a commercial street in Brooklyn with clothes and shoes at a good price.
Knickerbocker Av.
It's very dark at dawn but it seems that it doesn't rain until the afternoon.
We go back to the supermarket and pick up the laundry. Today we visit the Upper East Side, it is a neighborhood of wealthy people, just look at the large mansions and brand name boutiques like Vera Wang or Prada. Lonely Planet offers a very interesting tour of movie locations in Manhattan.
Today we begin our tour of Union Square, as we always arrive by subway. Union Square is a square that accommodates the most diverse, from businessmen, people playing chess, hippies juggling, skateboarders or singing hare krishnas.
Playing chess
We spent the day in Midtown, as always approaching the area by subway, and then we took to the streets.
Fifth Ave
We have breakfast and go to the subway.
Williamsburg subway station
Today we visit Harlem, we take the subway. It is very easy and comfortable to move around in the subway, as it is Sunday there is less affluence of trains but we don't have to wait too long. In Harlem on Sundays people wear their best clothes to go to church, we stop at Memorial Baptist Church.
We leave Burgos at 2.30 a.m., taxi and bus to the airport. We arrive at T4 Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas Airport and take the free bus to get to T2. We fly with KLM. Our flight is direct.