New Yorkers go all-out for Queen’s Platinum Jubilee at Manhattan’s Tea & Sympathy

Strings of miniature Union Jacks fluttered in the breeze outside Tea & Sympathy, the West Village’s own British tea house, as Americans and expats alike gathered Saturday to cheer Queen Elizabeth II and the record-breaking 70th anniversary of her reign.

“Where else would a Brit be in New York?” asked London-born Amanda Rodrigues as she waited for a spot of celebratory tea. “No other monarch in history served for 70 years. There is no one else like her.”

Partygoers nibbled finger sandwiches and fish and chips as a jazz band played outside the Greenwich Ave. tea shop.

The queen herself even put in an appearance — in

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