If you haven’t read Part 1, 2 and 3, definitely check them out here so you don’t miss anything ♡:
Part 1 – Times Square, Empire State Building, Woodbury Common Outlet, Eataly ♡
Part 2 – Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Fifth Avenue, Crazy Milkshakes!
Part 3 – Brooklyn Bridge, Soho, 9/11 Memorial, Little Italy, Koreantown ♡
And now – moving on to our last two days in NYC! <3
DAY 6
We started off Day 6 with Clinton Street Baking Co. in mind 😀 We have been wanting to try their famous pancakes for ages and decided that we would finally make our way there on our second last day in NYC 🙂 We arrived at around 10am on a Monday morning and there was a 30 minutes queue. We decided to wait anyway and grabbed some coffee nearby in the meantime. ♡
When we finally got seated at our table, we ordered our brunch quickly and the pancakes came shortly afterwards! 😀 These blueberry pancakes were so fluffy and awesome and definitely lived up to their standards 🙂
Sofie, Sharon and Melissa all ordered something different and they found their brunches mediocre. Our advice: just order the pancakes if you want to be safe! (although their milkshakes were delicious as well haha) 😀
After finishing brunch, we decided to visit Coney Island and took the subway there (it was a fairly long ride!). When we got off the subway, it felt like we got transformed back in time and we were immediately greeted by an old-school American theme park. The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the Coney Island theme park was the Goosebumps book series haha. I used to read these scary Goosebumps books as a kid and the stories often took place in haunted theme parks. Strangely, the Coney Island theme park looks exactly like how I imagined the haunted theme parks in those Goosebumps stories to be :O Not exactly the most positive impression one can get from a theme park but it actually felt pretty cool to see my childhood imaginations come to life 😛
We spent some more time chatting and laughing and taking photos at the beach, and were making our way back to the subway station when we passed by this art exhibition known as the Coney Art Walls right next to the beach. We looked at all the street art, and were especially fascinated by a few of them.
At night, we made our way back to our hotel and got ready to go out again as we have made plans to watch Phantom of the Opera on broadway on our last night in NYC! <3
Times Square also happened to be SUPERRR busy that night, but walking around the area at night definitely made me feel very alive in the City 😀
It was my third time watching Phantom of the Opera (funny enough each time I watched the musical I was in a different city – London; when the cast went to Hong Kong yearsss ago; and now NYC on Broadway!), but that did not make me feel any less excited about the show 😀 We also got our tickets very last minute (we got them that morning before heading off for brunch) and got decent seats at the Stalls for around $100 per person. Broadway shows felt a lot more expensive than London musical tickets to me, but we all agreed it was well worth it for the experience 🙂
DAY 7
On our last day in NYC, we decided to visit the American Museum of Natural History as our last stop before we had to head back on our flight to London. We did not stay at the museum as long as we wanted to, but we definitely stayed long enough to visit all the famous ‘Night at the Museum’ exhibits! One advice for anyone visiting though: we made the mistake of buying tickets at their full ‘suggested’ price ($17 for students) without realising that they were just ‘suggested’ prices and you can basically pay whatever you want!
If you do not want to pay the full $17 suggested price for tickets, you can definitely pay MUCH less than that – just make sure you tell the person at the tickets counters how much you want to pay 🙂
Our last lunch spot happened to be a very popular suggestion from friends living in NYC, and that is street food from the Halal Guys! I wasn’t planning to eat much for lunch because I wasn’t very hungry, but the second I tried some of the gyro rice Sharon ordered, I was HOOKED :O It was the most addictive thing ever and I pretty much finished everything Sharon left on her plate haha!
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