I may spend five days a week in Manhattan, but the workaday grind hardly allows much time to get to know the city. And since we live in New Haven, Conn., we figured that qualified us to call ourselves "outtatowners" for a weekend and make a special trip to Manhattan for the holiday festivities.
Hotels are twice as expensive Saturday nights as they are Sunday nights, so booking a room above Times Square on Sunday felt like a bargain. We had drinks with a friend of mine, braved the mob packed into Rockefeller Plaza and then grabbed dinner at an Italian restaurant on "Restaurant Row" in the theater district.
I would have preferred if there were a little bit of snow to enhance the holiday atmosphere, but no matter. We rounded out the trip Monday morning with a visit to the flagship Macy's store (where the Thanksgiving parade ends) and the Top of the Rock, an experience similar to riding to the top of the Empire State Building, except that you can see the Empire State Building from this view.
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