New
York City
August 2004
Unlike the July trip to New York, the August trip
had a tremendous variety of stuff going on. First, we had only an hour of rain
unlike the two days of rain we had in July. Second, we were joined by RebMax and
Taylor. Finally, we stayed up late on two nights and walked about ten miles.
Here are the photos:
(as usual, click on the little
picture to see the big picture)
Nighttime
in New York
Lots of weird things go
on in NYC after dark. Lots of normal things too, but just not to us. |

Stick a 20mm f2.8 wide angle on a Nikon and
shoot from chest high while walking and you can get some good stuff. |
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Stay on your feet in this neighborhood or you will wind up
explaining yourself to the NYPD Blue. |

This guy sells art on the corner. If you don't like his rendition,
check out his competition on the next corner. |
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Earlier in the evening there were a dozen cabs
in front of the Sheraton and more than three dozen people getting out to
check in. |
RebMax
and Taylor walk New York
Our friends Rebecca and her
son Taylor met up with us on Friday night. We had dinner and walked around
Times Square. On Saturday, we went to the World Trade Center site, the
23rd Avenue Street Fair, the Museum of Natural History, Tavern on the
Green for dinner, Central Park and in all, walked about ten miles from the
figures on Diana's pedometer. |

At The Plaza Hotel |

In the Sheraton elevator. |

At the Cortland Avenue subway station. |

On Lower Broadway. |

On top of the Empire State Building. |

The view we saw. |

This is our neighborhood from the Empire State Building. The yellow
arrow is our building. |

This is where we lived in apartment 15D at 21st and 3rd. |

Right after this, she stripped to her underwear and took a dip in
the fountain. She had a lot to drink. (That's my story and I'm stickin'
to it.) |

Rent here is only $23,500 a month! Want to move?
We did find a nifty mixed use apartment building in
TriBeca for only 6.8 Million.
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This was what the 3rd Avenue Street Fair looked like from 22nd
Street south. It really sucked. Street fairs are much worse than they
were in the old days (1984). |

These folks were having breakfast at the Times Square Deli. They
were filming a short subject. Watch for it at the Oscar's. |

Our first look at the Ground Zero site. |

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Gosh, we're cute! |

Outside Tavern on the Green. |

Tavern on the Green. |

RebMax and Taylor at the Marriott Hotel. |
9/11
Ride Foundation
The 9/11 Ride Foundation
organizes a motorcycle ride from the UA crash site in Pennsylvania to
Washington DC and on to New York to commemorate the public servants who
lost their life on 9/11. There were hundreds of motorcycles around the
hotels near sixth avenue and 50th street. These photos were taken on
Sunday morning as the riders were leaving New York. When you hear about
seventy-five Harley's moving toward 7th Avenue at 11am, it is a stirring
sound. |
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New
York from New Jersey
We stayed in New Jersey
on Sunday night at a very nice Hilton Hotel. This is the view from our
room. |

This is what New York looked like at 1pm. |

This is what New York looked like at 7pm. |
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