Made it to Times Square and gawked at the sky-high signs
along with a million other tourists. We stood in line for cheap broadway seats
only to find out they were only for the matinee. We had to come back in a few
hours for evening seats (that evening only) Decided to just go to the ticket
office and buy regular-priced but "lower-priced" tickets. After much debate we bought nose-bleed seats for Mary Poppins and Spiderman. Poppins was in the New
Amsterdam theater which is old and unique and Spiderman, in spite of a rocky
start, looked interesting.
We
then set out for the New York Public Library, a beautiful Beaux-Arts building
on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Lions, Patience and Fortitude, sit out
front. They were renamed during the depression. We needed the same attitude as we worked our way through the crowded city. We wandered through the marble-lined halls including the dark, serious Map
Room, and the huge Reading Room now filled with people scanning computers – no longer
a book in sight….
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