Today we had a great day packed with sightseeing mostly focused on the Immigrant Experience that is so central to New York's history & character.
We began the day with a short drive to nearby Liberty State Park in New Jersey. This was our departure point for the ferry to Ellis Island & then to Liberty Island.
On Liberty Island we came face-to-face with the iconic figure that greeted the generations of immigrants who arrived in the USA in New York. And at Ellis Island we learned more about the experience of those 'huddled masses' as they arrived in the 'New World' through this gateway.
After arriving back on Manhattan we rode the New York subway to 'the Meatpacking District' where we had time for lunch at the hip, new Gansevoort Market.
Chelsea marks the beginning point of the High Line, the city's newest 'city park', built on an elevated railroad over the streets! We walked part of the High Line, then walked to the nearest direct Subway line to the Lower East Side.
The Lower East Side is known as the original home for many of New York's immigrant communities, & our visit to the excellent Tenement Museum, complete with a living history encounter with a young immigrant girl in the early 1900s helped understand the live that many lived when they arrived.
We walked through Little Italy to Chinatown where we had a little free time before our Chinatown dinner.
Finally we met our bus for the drive back to our hotel, at the end of another great day.
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