Our first few days in New York city was spent meandering around stumbling on doing some touristy stuff. It’s been beautiful weather here, so with such a great day, we decided to check out the East Village. It was a very cool area of New York. The building height is zoned here, they can only go no higher than a few stories, so there were no skyscrapers obstructing the sky. It felt so open in comparison to the rest of Manhattan.

We didn’t wander around much, but we did people watch when we just plopped our butts down outside a Mexican restaurant and had a great lunch. Our lazy day carried on as the sun got higher in the sky and we topped noon time off with a beer at the White Horse Tavern, this is that bar where Jack Kerouac used to hang out when he lived here. This was a highlight of our wanderings.

It was strange how the sun gave up on us and allowed it to rain. This put a damper on us trying to find the Ghostbusters Building, but only a damper, we didn’t let a little wet stop us. The building is a functional Firehouse and is located on West Broadway and North Moore. We managed to get a few photos. We could tell the firefighters were proud of the building history, but we didn’t like how they were giggling at us because we were all ga-ga over finding the building.

It stopped raining and the sun once again graced us with its presence, so we made our way back to our hotel room to change into some dry clothes. Our New York hotel was a great find, we just happened upon this site: http://www.topnewyorkhotels.com, as we were trying to find the best hotels New York has to offer, but one that we could afford and one that was centrally located. We headed back out and made our way to 12th street and Broadway, where Strand Books is located. A great treasure if you ask me. We read in the Village Voice that David Sedaris would be doing a reading, but the queue was apparently too long, because by the time there were only seven people in-front of us, is when they cut off the line! We missed him by seven people!

So, we ended up seeing a sucky movie instead, ‘Terminator Salvation‘. Christian Bale is no David Sedaris!

New York’s Lesser Known Gems is a post from: Votika

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