Day four and we slept in and left at 9:30 to catch train at 10:00. We changed our train at Penn Station to subway taking us to Central Park. We stopped at a station just outside The Lincoln Center where we browsed a high-end annual craft fair before walking to The Dakota. This 1880's building was famous long before John Lennon lived there but now the focus is on the spot outside the front door where he was killed. The memorial originally placed there has now been moved to a spot in the park. We stopped across the street from the building and chatted with a pedi-cab driver who, after realizing we weren't going to hire him, stopped the hard sell and just chatted. He is from Bulgaria where he lives in the winter - currently taking his Masters in Finance - and comes to New York in the summer to learn English while pedaling people around.
We moved into the Park and encountered Strawberry Fields, a memorial to John Lennon now in control of "The Mayor of S. Fields", a wild-looking character who is now the self-named expert who gathers crowds around and begins his disertation on the life and meaning of John Lennon. We lasted a couple of minutes before crossing into the middle of the park - a surprisingly hilly and beautiful gem.
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