New Yawk

It’s getting closer.  Our big trip to New York will be here before I know it.  We picked up these maps at the store the other day.  (Yes, I’m a list girl and a map girl) No, we won’t be pulling them out in public view while on a NY city street.  If we get lost, I promise to go into a bathroom somewhere and pull out the map in the privacy of a toilet stall.  I don’t want to incur that famous NY rudeness by being ‘that’ tourist.  Besides, I think if you stop moving on the sidewalk, you get run over.  I don’t want to get run over.

The folded up map is of a bigger area, more of a general map.  But the map on the bottom lists where all the shops are!  I thought I’d show you a few highlights of where we’ll be, and where I hope to go visit.

Here’s our hotel, The Algonquin.  It’s on 44th, between 5th and 6th (I’m trying to practice the lingo…)

And the Majestic Theatre where all my dreams come true and I can die a happy and complete woman because I will have seen Phantom of the Opera.  Look, there’s Broadway!  The actual Broadway!

And just look at this little stretch of 5th Avenue.  My hubby wants to check out the Apple Store, and I want to see FAO Schwarz.  Which, by the way, I always thought was Schwartz.  But then keep walking, and look!  Louis Vuitton, and TIFFANYS!  And Burberry, Dior, Chanel.  I don’t think I could even step into those stores.  You know that scene in Pretty Woman, where the sales clerks won’t give Julia Roberts the time of day?  That’ll be me, except without the whole hooker thing. 

Now this little area might not look like much at first, but if you were standing there in the middle of the map, on 25th between 6th and 7th, you’d be standing here…

And I very much intend on standing there.  I was going to be good, and have this a quilt-free trip, but my Beloved Husband actually found this shop online and suggested we visit it.  (Everyone together now, Awwww!).  So you don’t have to tell me twice, I’m going to visit it alright.  And I’ll probably blow all my souvenir money here.  They have their own New York fabric that I think will be perfect for some kind of New York quilt to commemorate our trip.  I can’t believe they didn’t specifically put this place on the map.  I mean really.  They can put Tiffany’s on there but not the City Quilter?  Who’s writing this map?!

Then if I don’t spend all my money at the City Quilter, we’re going to go eat at Tavern on the Green.  I heard they have horse-drawn carriages that pick up outside the restaurant and go around Central Park.  That sounds like fun.  Do you think there are actual sheep in The Sheep Meadow?

Now, in my husband’s perfect world, we could do this…

But seeing as it’s not the baseball season, it’s not likely that’s going to happen.  We’d still like to visit the stadium though, but look…

It’s kind of ‘over the river and through the woods’ from where we’re going to be.  We’re going to be down in the bottom left part, and it’s waaaaay up in the top right.  I’m sure a cab is way out of our price range, seeing as how they seem to charge $10 a block, or something equally crazy.  The subway runs out there, but I don’t know how intensive of a trip that would be.

This is a bit overwhelming, and it’s just the midtown part.  Do you think the actual subway trains are color-coded to match their route?  That would be really helpful for me.  Maybe New York transit can work on that before I get there…