title Persian Day Parade, Upper East Side and Midtown, New York, US - 25th March 2007 intro It's the first whole day in Manhattan, and Nosher and Isobel wander down from their Upper East Side base at the Courtyard Marriott on 92nd and 1st - paid for mostly by accumulated loyalty points - through Central Park and happen upon a Persian Day parade on Madison Avenue in Midtown. After that, we walk around some more and end up eating pizza somewhere on Second Avenue. The next day we wander around a bit of midtown around 5th Avenue and around Grand Central, plus Isobel gets a bit of free make-up treatment in Macy's department store. imgp2847 A table of food is carried around imgp2852 Dancers in the street imgp2854 The dancers huddle up imgp2860 The parade crosses East 30th Street imgp2863 Girls on a float imgp2873 On Madison Avenue imgp2875 Crossing the street near a police bus imgp2877 The Zoroastrians of Iran imgp2884 An Iranian dude with a big sign imgp2898 A big banner stretches across the street imgp2906 Some anti-Hollywood protest imgp2909 Flags are waved imgp2912 More dancers imgp2922 A couple of dudes on horseback imgp2931 More flag waving imgp2935 A dude in a fake beard imgp2955 A marching band imgp2959 A kinky horn imgp2968 A girl in national dress imgp2970 Another fake beard imgp3013 A view of the Empire State from 34th and 9th Avenue imgp3021 Brownstone apartments imgp3023 A cool old Cadillac imgp3024 More apartments with classic fire escapes imgp3025 Some sort of broken electrical gear on the street imgp3027 Stretchworld Fabrics neon imgp3028 Ben's Delicatessen imgp3030 Spiked fire hydrants imgp3033 A silver drinking water sample point imgp3034 Somebody's takeaway in a phone booth imgp3036 The entrance to Grand Central Station imgp3038 Isobel in Grand Central Station imgp3041 A view from the hotel window imgp3044 Isobel chats to the bartender, Amy imgp3050 Some dude cues up some music imgp3051 We're invited to play a game of stick imgp3052 Nosher by the pool table imgp3062 Isobel fancies a slice of Joe's Pizza on 2nd Avenue imgp3064 Convenience store on 2nd Avenue imgp3066 Isobel crosses 2nd Avenue imgp3069 Isobel outside a 24hr store on 2nd imgp3070 Isobel roams around outside Apple's modest shop imgp3075 A golden statue imgp3076 A thousand taxis by Central Park imgp3082 There's a big green sculpture on a corner of Central Park imgp3084 Isobel gets a hot dog imgp3085 The hotdog stand imgp3091 St. Patrick's Cathedral on 5th Avenue imgp3099 Inside St. Patrick's imgp3100 An ornate door imgp3104 Isobel in Macy's imgp3106 Macy's department store imgp3107 Isobel gets a make-over imgp3110 There's some sort of skin-product choosing imgp3114 Another hotdog stand imgp3116 A big truck hauls rubble around imgp3117 It's time for pretzels imgp3123 A literal sign imgp3125 A Hasidic dude gets a shoe shine imgp3126 A hallway in Grand Central Station imgp3129 Grand Central's main concourse imgp3131 Another view of the Grand Central concourse imgp3139 There is a troupe of break-dancers down in the subway imgp3147 Grand Central sign imgp3148 The 28th Street subway sign imgp3149 On the subway