back in the big apple
I've been back in New York since Wednesday. I'm currently staying with friends of Rose's, Tracey and Ben. They have an amazing apartment in Queens, only around 20 minute's tube ride from Manhattan. This area of Queens is really nice, if I moved to NYC I would definitely consider Astoria.
At the moment my feet are killing me cos I've spent the last two days walking Manhattan...and I've only covered around a fifth of it! Yesterday I saw Tiffany's & Co and lots of other shops on 5th Ave, the Seagram Building, the beautiful Crystler Building, Grand Central Station, Trump Tower, the city library, and the original GE Building. I'm sure I've missed something there but don't know what. I also went into the UN Building and even saw a little of a meeting. To top the day off I went the hole hog and went up the Empire State Building where I hung out for a couple of hours photographing the sunset (not so brilliant) and then saw a full orange moon rise over Brooklyn (pretty cool).
Today Krista and I went on an adventure through the lower east side of Manhattan, and since our plan was to not have a plan, we pretty quickly lost in the general area of Greenwich Village. We saw the Flat Iron Building on Broadway and came across a pretty cool street market on the edge of a park. We had a picnic next to the river in a very dodgy park, walked through Chinatown trying to find comfortable footware, then headed over to Brooklyn Bridge for a well earned beer and some nice photos. By this time we'd been wandering the streets of Manhattan for over 4 hours were desperate to find the subway, which we caught back up to the upper east side. Here we saw the Guggenheim Museum in a state you don't often see (photos to come) and then walked across Central Park to the Dakota Building where John Lennon used to live and was sadly shot, and finally to Strawberry Fields, a slightly dodgy part of the park that is now dedicated to him. Sorry Mum - I didn't see Yoko Ono but I did take a photo for you.
Tomorrow I think I might go down to the World Trade Centre site?
At the moment my feet are killing me cos I've spent the last two days walking Manhattan...and I've only covered around a fifth of it! Yesterday I saw Tiffany's & Co and lots of other shops on 5th Ave, the Seagram Building, the beautiful Crystler Building, Grand Central Station, Trump Tower, the city library, and the original GE Building. I'm sure I've missed something there but don't know what. I also went into the UN Building and even saw a little of a meeting. To top the day off I went the hole hog and went up the Empire State Building where I hung out for a couple of hours photographing the sunset (not so brilliant) and then saw a full orange moon rise over Brooklyn (pretty cool).
Today Krista and I went on an adventure through the lower east side of Manhattan, and since our plan was to not have a plan, we pretty quickly lost in the general area of Greenwich Village. We saw the Flat Iron Building on Broadway and came across a pretty cool street market on the edge of a park. We had a picnic next to the river in a very dodgy park, walked through Chinatown trying to find comfortable footware, then headed over to Brooklyn Bridge for a well earned beer and some nice photos. By this time we'd been wandering the streets of Manhattan for over 4 hours were desperate to find the subway, which we caught back up to the upper east side. Here we saw the Guggenheim Museum in a state you don't often see (photos to come) and then walked across Central Park to the Dakota Building where John Lennon used to live and was sadly shot, and finally to Strawberry Fields, a slightly dodgy part of the park that is now dedicated to him. Sorry Mum - I didn't see Yoko Ono but I did take a photo for you.
Tomorrow I think I might go down to the World Trade Centre site?
2 Comments:
yeah, i was gonna ask about the trade centre site. check it out.
not long now miss becky! excited yet? i'll try and get the weather nice for your returning.
wow you will be there for september 11 anniversary right??
full on - you will see those 2 enormous streams of light that they send up from the Ground Zero site - apparently they can be seen in space??!!!
ok, enjoy - since you didn't write back to MY comment - i will ask again - what date are you going to be home??????
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