September 3, 2010@Manhattan

We took a subway A/C bound for Downtown/Brooklyn at 50th Street and got off the subway train at High Street, 1st station in Brooklyn. We climbed up stairs of High Street station and a kind man told us a way to Brooklyn Bridge; he is Chris Owens, who is a politician and a candidate for the election on Sep 14.

We walked on the Brooklyn Bridge toward Manhattan. It was less than 900 meters and pedestrian deck and bicycle lane were higher than car lanes; it's good since we don't need to care about car exhaust very much.


Then we went to South Street Seaport and had a Mexican Lunch at Red.

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I came to this restaurant before since previous company's NY office was near the the restaurant. It's my favorite and I wanted my wife to enjoy her favorite Mexican foods.

After the lunch, while my wife looked around the South Street Seaport, I bought several Ts and sweatpants at Abercrombie & Fitch.

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Then we got back to the Hilton New York from Fulton street; since the Metrocard vending machine was out of order for new ticket, a woman at the booth let us in for free. We should have taken 1, local train, but we somehow rode on 2/3, which was a express and skipped not only 50th Street but also Columbus Circle. We got off the train at 72nd Street. We just changed the platform and went back to 50th Street by Subway 1.

While my wife took a rest and our baby girl played on the bed, I went to Simply Fresh at 6th Ave to buy a smoothie, Aloha something, which contains strawberry, pineapple, and orange. It was $3.95 and my wife seemed to like it.

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After the break, my wife shopped around, SABON(soap shop) at 6th Ave and FAO Schwarz(toy store) at 5th Ave:

SABON at 6th Ave

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FAO Schwarz at 5th Ave

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I visited 5th floor of Hilton New York for fitness, which only provides mainly running and weight training equipment, but it seems I needed to prepare everything except for towels. Since I did not bring jogging shoes, I gave up it.