New York: the Preamble

So.

I have many stories to tell regarding New York, and they'll be told in good time. But, by way of a preamble to a whole New York Series, I thought you'd enjoy some statistics.

New York in Numbers:

• Plane rides survived: 2
• taxi rides survived: 1
  
• Days spent in the city: 3
• bagels consumed: 4
• subway rides: 6
• times Chris got us lost: 3
• times I got lost: 1
• knock-off bags acquired: 1
• metro cards bought: 3
• metro cards LOST (on the FIRST DAY!): 1
• museums visited: 3
• population: more than 8 million
• languages spoken there: 170
• languages I heard while there: Russian, French, Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Thai, Chinese (no, I don't know which dialect...), Vietnamese, oh, and English.
• blocks walked: 4 million

What we Did:

• Ellis Island
• Times Square
• the NY Public Library
• St. Patrick's Cathedral
• Chinatown
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
• Ground Zero
• Museum of Modern Art
• Broadway
• Rockefeller Center
• Central Park
• the Subway
• Katz's Deli
• TWO fancy dinners (I was only expecting ONE...but that's a whole other story)
  

What we didn't DO:

• Ukrainian Museum
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Natural History Museum
• Little Odessa