...we pick up all our online deliveries, shop for groceries (marveling at the choice of fattening and life-threatening snacks in even the smallest of stores), make breakfast and head out exploring...we visit the Statue of Liberty (shamelessly cutting in the line, which would normally have taken 1 hour), Times Square, Wall Street, Trinity Church, Freedom Tower, Chinatown and some other minor places, taking advantage of the only sunny day of our stay in NYC. And oh...

...couldn't stop wondering how ubercool the city has become since I last visited in 2001; granted I was a poor student then and a street stand hotdog seemed like a fortune; Manhattan is still freaking expensive though :)...wondered how in all stores they seemed to have double, swinging doors without any PUSH/PULL sign on them; basically this gives you four separate ways to approach the problem; I usually succeeded on the third attempt;...was appalled at no ce...