Holiday Inn Midtown, NYC:  Our last full day in NYC.  We had breakfast at the Flame Diner and then walked back to 57^th Street and caught the 31 bus which goes cross town and up the east side.  Going to tour Gracie Mansion which is the official home of the Mayor of NYC.  Bloomberg doesn’t live there but uses it for official functions.  A wood frame house built in 1799 on what was a Revolutionary War site by Archibald Gracie, a Scottish merchant.  This was their country home.  It’s about five miles north of lower Manhattan.  The only way to get there back in the day was by boat.  I think it’s the only wooden home still standing in Manhattan.  After the tour we got back on the 31 bus and got off at Park Avenue and walked around there for a while.  Back on the bus and got off on 8^th and 57^th and had a late lunch at C. J. Reynolds on 57^th.  There were a couple of guys next to us who were right out of The Sopranos.  We were eating outside and I was picturing a black sedan pulling up and a bunch of guys with machine guns jumping out and spraying us with bullets.  Nice guys though.  New Yorkers are actually very friendly.  Back to our hotel and relaxed the rest of the day. 

Gracie Mansion

Gracie Mansion

Gracie Mansion

Little lighthouse on the tip of Governor's Island in the East River across from Gracie Mansion.