NYC Day 6 (Part II)- Garret’s Last Minute Run Around- Harlem To Madison Ave And Everything In Between

Between getting a number for Late Night in the morning and attending the taping in the evening, we did a lot of stuff! This was partly because Garret found out that his ticket home is for tomorrow and not the day after as he initially thought. So we had things on the to do list that had to be done.

First was visit the restaurant from Seinfeld. It was the same on the outside but completely different on the inside. Instead it was filled with memorabilia from the popular NY sitcom. We ate lunch there, soup and sandwiches, pretty good standard dinner stuff.

After lunch we took the subway to Martian Luther King Drive (125^th Street) and did a quick run through past soul food restaurants, your typical chain stores, and the famous Apollo theatre in Harlem.

It started to rain as we made our way to Central Park. On our way we were sidetracked by the magnificent Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. The fourth largest Christian Church in the World, it is a mix of many different architectural styles and country influences but its mainly Gothic feel is overwhelming. The feeling of being overwhelmed reaches a head as you step inside and are dwarfed by enormous stone pillars that stretch 70.7 meters into the air!

The most amazing thing of all is that the whole church is built using only traditional masonry techniques in which no metal is used. When the pipe organ sounded, chills were sent down our spines.

Admiring the wild Peace Fountain outside in the gloomy rain added to the dark feel of the day.

We walked in the rain through the empty Northern part of Central Park before making our way to the Upper East Side. When we got to the posh Madison Ave the rain stopped as we passed by all the top expensive designer stores. We made it back home in time to get into some dry clothes for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.