A little trivia for you in case you’ve got nothing better to do. Manhattan is such an easy place to find your way around - providing you know your east from your west and north from south! It’s laid out in symmetrical east-west north-south grid - at least above 14th Street below that it starts to get a bit messy - that’s the location of the original settlement. Running through that huge neat neighbourhood is Broadway which cuts a diagonal through the whole beautiful grid. The end result is a series of triangles in the grid. Ironically many of these are called Squares - Time, Herald, Madison, Union (where Broadway seems temporarily interrupted across the ‘square’) plus .... Triangles squares? Makes sense - not!
Union Square Farmers Market every day except Monday and Wednesday
The super heroes were out in force
Time Square. It was packed.
Where else!?
Herald Square
The man who brought about the purchase of Alaska from the Russians - Seward’s Folly turned out to be a good decision.
Madison Square Park
Broadway stretches north 53 km from Battery Place at the southern tip of Manhattan to Sleepy Hollow - love that name. It is the oldest main thoroughfare in New York City dating back to the first New Amsterdam settlement. The name Broadway is the English translation of the Dutch Brede weg (broad road).
Beautiful bridge at Sleepy Hollow.
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