Day 4: cold. cold. cold.

Minus 8. Again. About minus 15 including wind-chill. The only things we had showing were our eyes, and they were cold.

Breakfast at the famous Harry/Sally Katz deli. Fantastically overpriced, the place was bigger than expected, but the food and service was good. The area was also different than expected – from the film you expect upper west side, not lower east. Finally got our lox bagel and found out that salt beef is corned beef in the States. Lucy had an egg milk shake, but it had no egg. Instead it had seltzer, making it a fizzy non-sweet milkshake.

Next stop was the Tenement museum where we took a tour on the garment district of the late 1800’s and were taken into a recreated tenement building showing how tough, crowded and unhealthy life was for the Jewish immigrants on the lower east side.

Then it was a bus ride around Brooklyn. We got to the bus stop on time, but there was only two seats left in the back. The toilet blocked our view on the right side, the side where most of the views were. So Lucy slept a bit in the nice warm bus and Darren listened to the commentary about which famous director(s) and actor(s) used to live there.

After recommendations from everyone we know, we went to Century 21 but began to melt under our 12 layers of clothing. It was essentially a larger TK Maxx, and to be fair, we were just not in the shopping mood.

Struggled through the subway (bank holiday service – or non-service) to have a quick look at the Friends and Sex and the City apartments in the village then walked to Soho and took refuge in a lovely sushi bar decorated like the inside of a luxury yacht. Also serve great (but cold) sake!