A Week In New York (6/8)
These pictures were taken during a week staying in Maryland and New York in November 2003.
The show was absolutely everything Christmas and well worth seeing. The stars are Radio City's world famous Rockettes here wearing their reindeer costumes complete with antlers
The Christmas theme continued in many of the shop windows. Here I am with some of my favourite TV characters.
Our last full day the weather was cold but brilliantly sunny and was ideal for going up the Empire State Building. Visibility was quoted as 25 miles. Here I am in the entrance hall with a map of the US North East about to join some very long queues for the top.
This view shows New York's first skyscraper built in 1902. Small by today's standard it was one of the earliest buildings to use an interior steel structure. Its triangular shape gave it the nickname the Flatiron building. The road to its right is Fifth Avenue and to its left is Broadway.
This is a more general view south towards New York's financial district, with the Flatiron Building in the foreground. You can see how Broadway cuts a diagonal across Manhattan from the centre leftwards as it goes south.
Looking North East is the famous Chrysler building built in 1930. Designed at the height of Art Deco opulence it was finished at the start of the Depression. The East River can be seen in the foreground on the right.
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