367. Travel diary. NYC.

Statue of Liberty and Wall Street

If your wanting to see the Statue of Liberty then this is ideal. You can hop straight onto a ferry for free, so simple and easy. We headed to the top of the deck for prime viewing of the little old lady, we were lucky we caught her on such a stunning day. As soon as we got to Staten Island we got onto another ferry to go back because there's nothing there.
Once we got back the area is very close to the financial district so we headed to Wall Street for some tourists reason and got a picture with the charging bull. It was great.

Central Park

Having had a mixture of weather we wanted to make sure we visited Central park on a pretty day. However every time it was super sunny we were horrifically hungover over. We managed to get ourselves out there on perfectly sunny yet cool day. It was super stunning and absolutely massive. It was quite bizarre as there were road going through the park for the bicycles to ride on and mini traffic lights. We chilled on top of a hill and took a little nap.

Basketball

Basketball is a pretty big deal in the states so we made sure we went to see a game whilst in NYC. We booked them in advanced which cost about £25. We saw brooklyn Nets vs Maccabi tel aviv. It was great, the atmosphere was insane even though it was just a pre season game. We got ourselves a hot dog prior to the game to embrace the whole culture however our saucing skills weren't up to scratch. The stadium is far bigger than you'd imagine and there's crazy advertisements all the time with dancing girls doing high kicks in half time.

366. Travel diary. NYC.

Turns out blogger on an iPad is completely shit. So you'll have to bare with me.

3. We took a visit to brooklyn brewery for a taste of the culture in the local town. Admittedly the tour is not much of tour but more of a story telling situation but it's free and it was great. The bar was the main highlight, it was very traditional with wooden benches and beer barrels as tables. Definitely worth having a visit.

Viva toro - $5 frozen margaritas or mojitos, insanely good.
Radegast hall and beer garden - Drinking from giant steins in true German tradition.
The Charlestom - $5 for a beer and a personal pizza
Barcade - a bar with a shit load of arcade games!
Matchless - 241 on a lot of drinks. Also a real nice photo booth.

4. Free tours food tasting

We were told about this company called "free tours by foot" which provide a lot of different types of tours across the world. And the great thing is you pay whatever you like. I would highly recommend the food tours as you get to eat at the great places your shown around as well as learning about the history of the area too. We ended up trying some of the most incredible classics of New York. If you're travelling anywhere in the world this is something you definitely should do. It helped us get our bearings around the city and learn a bit of the culture.

Mamouns falafel
Artechoke pizza
Banthum bagels
Bleecker street pizza

Other great food places -

Brooklyn Mac - insanely good macaroni cheese
Action burgers - comic book themed burger joint. Very retro.
Pies and thighs - good hearty fried chicken
Vinnies pizza - great for when your pissed after a night out.
Kellogs dinner - open 24hrs this is the ultimate American diner
Bagel smith - also open 24hrs this place does pretty darn good bagels.
Baohaus - Eddie huangd little Chinese den