Today we ventured downtown, to where 5rth Avenue starts, at Washington Square Arch and Park. The weather was magnificent, with the sun shining and a light cool breeze.

The Park was a throng of buskers, university students and tourists, walking, sitting, talking, playing in a beautiful symphony, which allowed us to sit and watch and listen for a while.

We wandered further downtown when our mood took us and visited the Merchants House Museum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%27s_House_Museum

Talk about stopping time. 

From 1840 to 1900 the same family lived there, generations following each other living as they always had. The house today is the only example of a 19th Century house in New York. And it is amazing. We wander through each room, taking our time to take in how people lived 150 years ago. Their idea of comfort and design, their concept of a home, their way of cooking. Their way of life. 

It’s a wonderful three hours, we almost feel as if we have been transported back in time.

We emerge in the late afternoon and walk around SoHo, taking in the exquisite architecture, each building a masterpiece in its own right. From the metal facades and frame, to ornate concrete carvings and outlandish fixtures and fittings. We find an interesting sidewalk piece of art, it’s a rendition of the subway built into the sidewalk pavement, it’s weirdly interesting.

We finish on dusk and go to the seaport for a nighttime ferry ride on the Hudson to see the Statue of Liberty and City at night from the water. Check out the photos, it’s a special view. The statue is lit up, from the concrete base to the lime green of Lady Liberty herself to the golden glow of the torch held aloft. Maybe we will visit Liberty Island one day! But not tonight. We continue our trip along the Hudson. The lights of the city twinkle like a thousand Christmas tress lined up together. Some tall and skinny, other shorter and wider, the skyline is obvious the world over to any onlooker. We pass under the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges as we move up the East River, before returning to our port. The trip lasted three hours, yet it seemed like ten minutes as we took in all that it had to offer.We catch the subway home and call it a night.

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