This is going to be a relatively short post as I have spent a lot of time in New York before and so I will just cover what was new to me.

I flew into New York on 17th May. I stayed at Hotel Boutique at Grand Central (www.hotelboutiqueatgrandcentral.com) which is on Lexington Avenue near Grand Central. It has a roof terrace with good views.

It is also next to the Chrysler Building.

I have never stayed in this part of Manhattan before and only visited Grand Central once before.

Grand Central also has an excellent food market (www.grandcentralterminal.com/market) in one of the passages between the terminal and Lexington Avenue.

The main purpose of my visit was to catch up with people in New York. The first on my list was James Huayamave who has helped try to keep me fit since I first started coming to New York regularly in 2008.

I met up with a Traci and Nate, couple I hadn’t seen for some time, in the East Village. They recommended a restaurant called Feast (eatfeastnyc.com) which was excellent. I talked so much, I forgot to take a picture!

I noted that the MTA seem to have an interesting new problem more theatrical customers on the Subway!

I also visited Schroders’ new office in Bryant Square and caught up with my colleagues there.

Finally, I went to a couple of Shows. The first, The Play That Goes Wrong (www.theplaythatgoeswrong.com), is co-written by Henry Lewis, a fellow Questor from Ealing who I worked with on a couple of shows a long time ago. He is also in the cast. They appear to be doing well on Broadway, the theatre was pretty well sold out and they got a standing ovation.

Another friend took me to see Bandstand which is a new show by some of the people involved with Hamilton. It is a musical set in Swing clubs in 1945. Worth noting that we bought our tickets for Bandstand from the discount booth in Times Square (www.tdf.org/../TKTS-ticket-booths). I had never done this before as the queue looked horrendous. However, it moved really quickly and we got a 50% discount. If you have bought from them before, and have a ticket stub as evidence, they let you jump to the front and you don’t have to queue.