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OK, What can you write about NYC that hasn't already been written? We are put up in a downtown Manhattan hotel, near West 35th street. It is easy walking distance to everything, really. It was a beautiful Spring day, temps around upper 60's. My goal was to put a couple of "checks in the block" so to speak and to do some things that I had not done on prior visits to New York City. Going to the top of the Empire State and checking out Times Square at night were two of those things, but my priority was, of course, food. That is how I found myself walking to Eataly, ( http://www.eataly.com ) the pantheon of Italian foods this side of the Atlantic. It was founded by Oscar Farinette, Joe Bastianich, Lidia Bastianich, Mario Batalli, and Adam and Alex Saper. For me, my real discovery of Italian food was when I was stationed in Naples, during one of my Navy assignments. I was the Officer in Charge of a Helicopter detachment that provided support services to the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet. We were housed in a tourist/camping complex that also had one of the most popular restaurants in the area. It is here where I had my first taste of Mozarella di Bufala. I was hooked. Naples (not New York as some like to say) is where pizza was born. Combine the chewy, blistered dough with a perfect Marinara sauce and real buffalo mozzarella and you have pizza perfection. That is what I had here at Eataly. That and the delight of simply "touring" the place and seeing all that it has to offer in Italian gastronomic delights. Having "checked that off and spending over an hour here, I then set off to continue my exploration. I decided to wait in the lines for the Empire State tour. They were long, but I could see that they could have been longer. It took a lot of patience from me to stick it out, since my views of the city as I fly into LGA are pretty fantastic (and free), but this was one of the "checks in the block" that I was determined to get. If you can tolerate the crowds (and NYC is all about crowds), then it is still worth doing. From there I walked to Times Square, checked that off and then dragged my self back to the hotel, where I poured myself into bed, exhausted and fulfilled.  |
| Eataly, in the Flatiron district |
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| The Flatiron Building |
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| Empire State Building |
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| View from the top |
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| Times Square |
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