Soho, The Hotel Chelsea and Sardi's

Had a fabulous day today. Jumped on the subway to go to Soho and had planned to work our way uptown through the Village and little Italy but it was so packed with stuff to see that we wandered around the streets for four hours...and only managed to get four blocks. We then jumped on another train and went to Chelsea to the market and to Highline, which is a roof top walking track across 6 blocks with plans to go another 10 blocks...beautiful gardens and a great view.
What was planned to be the last stop was the famous/infamous Hotel Chelsea, the object of songs (Leonard Cohen...I remember her well at the Chelsea Hotel), where people wrote books (Arthur C Clarke, 2001; Arthur Miller, a couple of plays) and people died (Dylan Thomas from Alcohol poisoning; and Nancy when Sid Vicious stabbed her) and home to the artistic, the avant-garde and the famous.
After that my day was complete and we headed home on the bus. Walking up 44th street to get back to the apartment we passed by Sardi's (famous restaurant and haunt of movie and theatre stars) and went in for a drink. At the bar we met Joyce Randolph who was famous for playing Trixie in The Honeymooners in the early 60s and she was very lovely and happy to chat to us...all in all a very satisfying day!
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Highline
Chelsea Hotel
Soho
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