Rockefeller Center and Moma

We started the day by heading over to Rockefeller Center.  First we just wandered around checking out the art work:

Then we went up to The Top of the Rock, the observation platform at the top of the Rockefeller Center (floor 67!).  It started with an exhibit and movie about when it was built.  John D. Rockefeller Jr. (Daddy made all the money with Standard Oil) leased the land to build a new opera house for the Metropolitan Opera.  But this was in 1929 and the crash happened and the Opera backed out.  Junior decided to go ahead and finance and build the building on his own, in the middle of the depression! 

The views from the top were incredible:

And of course the best view of all

After getting our fill of the view we headed out to Moma (The Museum of Modern Art).  There were Rousseau's

Van Gogh's

Kandinsky's

Picasso's

and these

My favorite, of course, being the painting that was solid black.  Now that takes real skill!

After that we took the subway down to Greenwich Village where we found Washington Square park was being renovated

so we couldn't get to the arch.  Then we headed off to another World Science Festival Lecture, this one called The Laws of Life about what other forms life might take.  We had to leave early so we could eat dinner (back at the Stardust Diner, which unfortunately was booked for a private party, but we went downstairs where the B team was singing) and then off to another play, Avenue Q, which is a musical about Sesame Street like characters, with a slightly more risque nature.  The music and actors were great and we really loved it.  It would be so great to be able to go to plays like the ones we've seen on a regular basis.  Oh well.

Tomorrow it's off to Ellis Island!