The text part of this journey, Our Trip to New York City: Part I – (Getting Into The City, Times Square and Other Distinctive Highlights)is here.
Thanks to Jessie Voigts for putting these images inline for me !
Unfortunately, Gather has turned this photo dark. The original is fine. The words, "terror plot" are visible on the news ticker, here in Times Square. You can't see that from this version of the photo, but if you go here, you can.
Times Square at night. See the billboard ad for The Lion King, at left.
Outside The Late Show, with David Letterman. Not in Times Square, nor near Rockefeller Center, where NBC houses its shows, but in a building all by itself. On CBS.
Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx. The week after we were there, there was a ground-breaking ceremony across the street for the new Yankee Stadiu. I'm a Red Sox fan (natch), but this building is a legend, as is its team.
Radio City Music Hall at night.
The New York City skyline, as seen from the Liberty Ferry. The World Trade Center towers were in the now-empty space to the left of the black, glass skyscraper.
The long view of the New York City skyline, as seen from the Liberty Ferry.
Miss Liberty, a side view, with the skyline in the background. Apparently, Miss Liberty is so large that her thumb is 6 feet high.
Ellis Island and museum. ellisisland.org.
Sign leaving Westchester County, New York, entering Yonkers, New York. Yonkers is the town directly north of the Bronx, and is one way to get into the city.
The word "Yonkers" is from the Dutch, as they settled this area, and founded Yonkers in 1646.
The famous Rainmaker Statue, a symbol of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe, in the Foxwoods Casino, in Connecticut. People have commented that this statue looks to be made of ice, but it is some kind of amalgam-composite synthetic..
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Nevertheless, let me know the next time you're in NY and I'll show you all the good sights!
The world trade center is not there.
Obviiously, this was on the day of the foiled UK terror plot. My husband and daughter saw the ticker rolling by and clicked before it disappeared.
The link to the other photo is in the caption to the first photo in this article.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=
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http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=
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http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=
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The best Times Square photos are on the first part of this photo essay, here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=
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The best Times Square photos are on the first part of this photo essay, here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=
281474976782266
And I definitely liked Times Square the way it used to be. If I want to see Disney I'll go to Orlando!
And the Yonkers sign is very meaningful to me; my father John Anton Walter was born to Prussian immigrant parents there in 1927, and raised in Yonkers in the tenement building the grandfather I never met owned, where the latter also had a secret brewery and speakeasy since Prohibition days. I've been up there several times in the last twenty years making inquiries to find that building, and I finally did back in 1995.
Thank you for bringing so many memories back, Kathryn, with your wonderful photos. The shots from the boat are spectacular!
As a matter of fact, the shots from the boat..It was the shot of the skyline from the Liberty Ferry where you can see the empty space formerly occupied by the WTC that inspired me to write the 1993 WTC piece.
Must be a glitch. It is here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=
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I just pasted the link driectly from my article.. It is not reported, flagged or anything that would make it difficult...
Enjoy the wedding chapels article ! (NOT about Wedding Chapels, btw..)