A Week In New York (8/8)

 

These pictures were taken during a week staying in Maryland and New York in November 2003.

  

 

 

 

This is inside the World Financial Center which is adjacent to Ground Zero. An attractive interior with marble steps and palm trees. Here also was a display of the new office blocks and memorial gardens proposed for the Ground Zero site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our final afternoon we had planned to take a boat trip across to Liberty Island to visit the Statue of Liberty. Long queues and the fact that we could visit the grounds but not go up inside the statue helped us decide not to go so we took a second trip on the Staten Island Ferry, this time in daylight. It was exactly forty years to the day since President Kennedy was shot and it seemed a strange coincidence that this was the name of the Ferry that we boarded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the daylight we had excellent views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here I am with a cup of Starbucks coffee bought on the ferry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Brooklyn Bridge, considered to be the most beautiful and famous New York bridge. It took almost 16 years to build and when completed in 1883 it was the world's largest suspension bridge and the first to be constructed of steel.

 

 

 

 

 

A final sunset over the Hudson River as the Ferry docks back at Manhattan before a hasty return to the airport for our flight home.

Thank you for looking at our pictures of New York, we hope you enjoyed them

 

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