We forgot that the area around Times Square would be cordoned off, for the dropping of the ball, at midnight, so when we came up out of the station at 53rd Street we discovered that we could not cross 7th Avenue just there, where we would’ve liked to, but instead needed to walk farther north, in the direction of the park, and then come back down on the other side of the street, with all the throngs of people, to access the block on which the restaurant was.