Since neither my son in law or daughter had ever been there, we decided that was a good place to meet to give them a couple of nights out on the town while we watched our grandson Lincoln:) Tough job but sum Gammy's gotta do it.
Day one, we met them at Penn station, then after dropping bags off at our Airbnb, we hit the subway to Katz's deli. We waited in line at nearly 2PM for 45 minutes in order to get and eat their famous Pastrami Reuben. You could split it and a plate of fries and still not finish it all. Then the mommy and the daddy got to go out on the town! The oldest Irish pub in NYC was celebrating their 162nd birthday. McSorley's. They serve only two things, their own light ale and their own dark ale. That's it, no other drinks. Two at a time too. Everything they were ever given is on the walls, including the turkey dinner wishbones from each serviceman who went over in WW1 but didn't make it back. The ones who did make it back, came by and collected their wishbones. Even the NY health and safety department can't make them take the bones down. www.mcsorleysnewyork.com
Day two, a nice gentleman on the east side opened a bagel shop, tompkinssquarebagels.com and we loved that one! Steve spent years in Tucson working at Raytheon, then returned to NYC when he had kids. Great place for families, they love kids. Then it was down to the Statue of Liberty, the finance district, St Timothy's and the World Trade Center Memorial. We lucked into some amazing food on day two. The Statue of Liberty was amazing, but we learned that my daughter is not good on boats. We skipped Ellis Island as a result of that. Unfortunately the crown tour was sold out, it's best to order in advance and we got back onto land as quickly as possible.
I then found a fantastic restaurant, Luke's Lobster in the FIDI (now I know that means Financial District) but they have lots of locations. http://lukeslobster.com/shacks/ The amazing crab roll or lobster roll were both fantastic. The location, Williams street and the nearby Stone street were also great, and reminded us of Europe. They had a couple of cobblestone streets with fabulous shops, closed to traffic on some if it. It included Luke's, a Bavarian place, a French bakery, https://financierpatisserie.com/ and an Irish pub dublinernyc.com/. Richard immediately started looking for apartments. :) It's what he does!
We finished with Little Italy after a short rest at home. We had a blast in Little Italy! We went to Amici II but there are lots of great places. Then after looking for a gelato store, we finished at The Canolli King for dessert! Lincoln loved the gelato, loved the trains, "choo-choo", loved the pasta, loved the bread and ate like a little mad man. Eating can be a chore for him sometimes, but I bet he gained weight with us dipping everything into olive oil and mayonnaise. Plus, Gelato:) He liked the Katz's pastrami, katzsdelicatessen.com/ the french fries, PICKLES, the bagels and cream cheese, and just about everything we ordered that he was willing to try. Katz's pastrami was a big hit and a big surprise, we weren't expecting that. The kids then stayed in that night and we polished off a delightful Bordeaux from the Royal Wine Merchants (FIDI) at home and told stories of our sordid youth. <3
Day three was a bit of shopping for the girls, and a great park at Union Square for all 3 boys. Lincoln absolutely adored the park at Union Square, and it was tough to tear him away to get to Central Park. There's a candy store and a coffee store right next to each other at the square and a breakfast place that had live jazz on a Sunday, but the sign just said "Coffee", so we weren't sure where we were. The coffee is fantastic there:) That was a great combo of Cappuccino and chocolate. Lincoln rode the carousel at Central Park with his mom, who also needs dramamine for that, what on earth were we thinking? After all the previous pigeon chasing at Times Square, (where we did find a Naked Cowboy strumming his guitar), we found Audubon stuffed birds in the Central Park Conservancy gift shop! Lincoln loved holding that bird to his little cheek and playing the chirping over and over again. We chose a goldfinch, they didn't happen to have a lowly pigeon. Day three was also stopping at hot dog vendors every time we got hungry:) Then we finished with street vendor crepes and headed home to order the most fabulous Indian food. The kids went out again and ate at the Sex in the City cafe which is open 24 hours. Good food, rude service. Sounds typical for NY, but it was the first and only time any of us experienced it.
Day four we met up with Amy, whom we had met at my daughter in law's wedding but Richard has known for 18 years. She met us near Times Square, at a great place called Schnipper's that served homey fare like sloppy joes as well as some great fish and chips. You can have sloppy joe on top of nearly anything as well. Try the "red velvet" birch beer float. It was amazing. Then some more pigeon chasing at Times Square and a bit of H&M for the girls, and home again, home again:)
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