Jan 18 Last Day in NYC and Journey Home

 We had some time before the bus left NYC so we did a walking tour of Times Square and the Theater District.

The first image is of us in the Times Square area.


The second image is of us, also in the Times Square area but this time in front of the statue of George M Cohan (died 1942) songsmith (over 300 songs), director (4 well known musicals) actor (four films) and other creative endeavors. 

Actually, this part of the area is known as Duffy Park because it also has a statue of a Father Francis Patrick Duffy (died 1932) who was the most decorated chaplain ever in the US Army (served in France in WWI) and then was the pastor of the Holy Cross Church in Hell's Kitchen. He was also known as a friend of actors (who then had a low reputation). 


The theater district has a lot of store frontage and some of it becomes prop material for movies and so forth.

The third image shows Ann in front of the Wonka Shipping Department which is left over from a movie (I think).

The last image shows one of the props for sale in the theater district, a full scale R2D2 (I forgot to get the price on this).

Our little panda is on the R2D2 to show the scale (little panda is about 2" high). 


After our walking tour, we went back to the hotel, picked up our stuff and had some schnitzl and wraps I got from a Chabad affiliated store (Schnitzl Express) just south of the theater district.

We then got a cab to the bus stop at 30th St and 7th Ave., boarded the bus about 4pm and got back to Bethesda about 8pm.