NYC Day 2

Today we had Kathy as our tour guide...she is very knowledgeable about NYC!
We went to the Flat Iron district and Madison Square Park. This happened to be the weekend for a street fair so we stopped by. Good thing we walked up and down because we had a lot to walk off...roasted corn, crab cakes, fried Oreos, Italian ice, Mozzarepa (2 corn pancakes with fresh mozzarella inside and then grilled) and Zeppoles (fried dessert dough). After that we walked to Washington Square Park and sat and enjoyed the beauty and more street performers. We walked though East and West Village and Greenwich Village where all the beautiful brownstones are located. We walked through a small portion of Little Italy and stopped at Lombardi's Pizza (first pizzeria in the US) and luckily got a table because there was a wait. Nothing like eating pizza with fresh slices of mozzarella, sauce and basil...yum! We walked through the tenement buildings where the first immigrants lived. Some of them are turned into museums and you can see all the tin ceilings, wood floors and detail work. We walked through Chinatown...pretty gross, the smells were not pleasing to the nose..hee hee. We went back to Little Italy for the nighttime street fair. We went to a bakery and got fruit tarts, cannolis and gelato.