Category: New York
Wed 6 Sept – Central Station
Last day in New York, and we could have just sat around and re-done our packing and cases; but we still had some places on our ‘to-do list’. So we went first to look at the Rockefeller centre. Its actually a collection of buildings around a small-ish square that famously houses an ice-rink in winter,…
Tue 5 Sept – Coney Island
The last full day of the holiday, so we decided to go to Coney Island. We took the metro again, which took a while. The station at Coney Island is interesting as it seems to have been extended several times, and now overhangs the road quite a lot. The station one stop up the line…
Sun 3 Sept – Walking Bridges
Another walk across New York. This time starting in Greenpoint which is the most northern part of Brooklyn, and into Manhatton via the Williamsburg bridge. There does seem to be a ‘thing’ about proper big murals, some just plain arty, and some which are simply commercial adverts, such as for current films or Dell laptops:…
Sat 2 Sept – Guggenheim
After a bit of a lie-in, we went to visit the iconic Guggenheim museum. The building itself is amazing, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. We saw some of the drawings in the exhibition at MoMA during our previous few days in New York. The main gallery is a continuous helical path that rises around the…
Fri 1 Sept – Crop circles
On Friday, we headed off early in the morning to the airport for the return flight to New York. Debbie photographed some of the fields below that are irrigated by rotating booms that create distinctive green circles in the otherwise rather barren landscape: By the time we got to New York, it was getting quite…
Sun 13 Aug – MoMA and Central Park
We had a shuttle bus from the hotel across the Queensboro Bridge which has two levels of vehicles going across it, we then walked to short distance to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) which was good, but not sure I would swap it for the Tate, although the exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright drawings…
Sat 12 Aug – Impressive views of New York
We managed to find somewhere to walk for a while at the Wildcat Mountain Wilderness Center. The whole area is really very green and wooded, with lakes and the roads are quite narrow and twisty and up and down. It feels a bit like parts of Wales or Scotland, but a lot warmer. Maybe a…
Thur 10 Aug – Central Park & off to Dover
Seems that the New Yorker hotel was leading edge. Coincidentally it is also where Nikolai Tesla died. We did a fairly quick walk up to central park before checking out of our Manhattan hotel. This carousel was restored in 1982, it is in a permanent building in Central Park. The ceiling of the building at…
Wed 9 Aug – Long walk around Manhattan
We were staying at the New Yorker hotel which was built in the 1920’s and opened 2nd Jan 1930. Despite being on the 21st floor the view of the Hudson was still quite limited. Being 5 hours behind we were out and walking before 9am. We walked along the edge of the Hudson River right…
Tues 8 Aug – We have arrived
We have made it across the Atlantic. View as we landed was more dazzled than dazzling. Yes, that is Manhattan on the horizon. We arrived into Penn station New York at just after 9pm and walked the couple of block to our hotel. Was it really 2am at home, and 17 hours since…