Goodbye my Coney Island baaaaby...

Friday 10th July 2009

Well a not so busy day today.

We realised we had to do some laundry, so we found a serviced one and they washed and folded it all for us. We were going to use the coin operated ones but it only cost $14 for them to do it so we thought we'd splurge...

While our laundry was getting done we went on the last of the bus tours, this one of down town. It was basically just through the shopping district (SoHo, Tribeca etc.) and back up again. We got off at the World Trade Center twin towers site and went and looked at a memorial in St Paul's cathedral which became the rescue/emergency services personnel place of rest and rejuvenation. The memorial was quite moving, just reading about the generosity and open hertedness of not only New Yorkers but people from all across the world.




These photos are just a couple of the items in the memorial at St Paul's cathedral.

After the WTC memorial we went back and picked up our laundry and went back to the hotel for a nap, then took the subway out to Coney Island. This place is in danger of disappearing in the next few years and is such an iconic part of New York we just had to see it - and it has the world's oldest roller coaster. We spent an hour just wandering around - had a corndog and went on a couple of the rides and then took the subway back.

After Coney Island we had dinner at a really interesting Japanese restaurant called Inakaya, which is kind of like a teppenyaki grill but more boisterous. We forgot to take some photos, but this image shows it quite well. We sat in the first and second seats on the hand bench.