November 09, 2010

New York - Day 3

The day started with rain so we decided to go for some indoor activities. There are two huge building complexes in the neighborhood: Time Warner Center and Rockefeller Center. Fortunately the rain was gone when we left the apartment. So I took some pictures along the way following Broadway up north.




Time Warner Center is located on Columbus Circle, a large crossing at the southwest corner of Central Park. Several designer boutiques and a very huge and fine food supermarket in the basement are highlights, although we spent most of the time in a shop for sportswear.
Then there was a huge Samsung area, sort of toys'r'us for men including latest computer games and home cinema technology and some 3D-showcases like the one in the picture, naturally it took us a while to test everything :-)
Then we followed Central Park South onto 5th Avenue, the probably most famous shopping street on earth.

And it was as expected, designer next to designer. But there were also shops as the NBA Store or Apple, so we looked into several of them and all of us were carrying bags some time later :-)


Then into Rockefeller Center, which isn't actually a center but rather an area with a couple of skyscrapers and the famous skate rink in the middle of it.
The inside was not so exciting, besides this typical architecture of marble and brass. The various shops didn't make it to attract us so we just had a coffee in the NBC studio store...welcome back American paper cup coffee, it tasted as it looked :-(
The way home led us back to Times Square and the Theater District which is such a exciting sight at night.