We
hopped on the ferry in the morning and headed into New York City. We got back on the double-decker bus and took
another tour of downtown Manhattan. Our
tour included travel through the neighborhoods of Soho, Chinatown, the East Village
and Greenwich Village and past places like Times Square, the Empire State
Building, Central Park, the Rockefeller Center and the World Trade Center site. Since the bus tour is narrated, it was
interesting to hear two different tour guides give the same tour. We definitely learned different things on
each tour.
We got off the bus at
Times Square and checked out some of the stores in the area and stopped at the Hard
Rock Café for lunch. After lunch we walked
a few more blocks, continuing to check out the shops along the way and then we explored
Macy’s flagship store on 34th Street. We didn’t buy anything, but we enjoyed
wandering through the eight floors of the store and riding on the old
escalators with their beautiful wooden panels.
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the Wall Street Bull (which is no longer located on Wall Street) it is
surrounded by fence so no one can damage it |
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the streets of New York City as viewed from the
double-decker tour bus |
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| traffic is just not to be believed... |
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| ...and there are people everywhere |
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Times Square - if you look closely, you can see the New Year's ball near
the right had side of the picture, against the mirrored building, just
below the top picture and above the blue picture |
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just outside Central Park - around this statue is where you can pick up
your horse drawn carriage ride |
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| the details on many of the buildings are just amazing |
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how about a dragon carved in the stone - this was one of the dozens
of dragons on this building near Central Park |
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| the architecture you see is just amazing |
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| arches, columns and cool cornice |
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| the Empire State Building |
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the "Flat Iron Building" - not its real name, but
people thought it looked like an iron laying on
its side and the name stuck |
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| some of the detailing on the "Flat Iron Building" |
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our camera doesn't take great night pictures, but you can get an idea of how
beautiful the new World Trade Center buildings look at night |
Fred
and I occasionally watch the Discovery Channel show Dirty Jobs with Mike Roe.
One of his episodes, first shown in 2008, was on dirty jobs in the Big
Apple. The job we found most intriguing
was “rooftop water tower installer”. We
were amazed that rooftop water towers still exist and that most are made of
wood. The old ones continue to be
cleaned and repaired and new ones installed.
On our bus tour we began looking for and photographing these water
towers. A water tower pictorial follows.
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