Not long after we arrived, we noticed the daily queue outside a bagel shop in the next street. We googled it and found Ess-a-Bagel had a reputation for having the best bagels in NYC. We decided to check it out for brunch this morning. We stood outside the store in the queue for about 15mins and then at least another 20mins inside the shop. There were about 10 different varieties of bagel to choose from and at least 15 different flavoured cream cheeses. They incl...

We had decided we would go to Harlem today to have a soul food lunch. We had plenty of time before lunch so we walked up to 5th Avenue. It wasn't so crowded at Saks Fith Avenue so we got a better look at their Christmas windows. I wanted to see the Tiffany windows so we walked down 5th. We got to a corner that was all blocked off. Every person had to tell the policeman where they were going to see if they could continue or not. The issue was we had to pass Trump...

We caught the train uptown to Columbus Circle where there were some Christmas markets. As we wandered around, things started to look familiar. It seems all the Christmas markets have the same stalls. But, we did find a stall selling 3 cashmere scarves for $20. Seems was too cheap to be real cashmere but they were soft, we hadn't put scarves on and it was cold! We went back to the station to go up to 72nd street as this was the best entrance into Central Park for...

Today was the only day where no cloud was forecast so we decided to go up the One World Observation Tower at the new World Trade Centre. We caught the train down & found that there is now a Westfield Shopping Centre down there. We went in but it didn't seem to have that much in it. Parts of it were still being built. The queue to buy tickets for the observation deck was outside when we joined it. Thankfully it moved pretty quickly because it was very cold. W...

The website was down all day yesterday so I couldn't write anything - hopefully I can remember what we did. We went down to Macy's in the morning so we could go to Santaland & have a Santa photo. We went up to Santaland to find the biggest queue ever so we didn't bother waiting. We thought we would have a look around Macy's while we were there. The mornings & evenings are below zero so we can't be without our coats. But, it is really annoying to have the...