The bagel bar near to the Marriott hotel
Liberty Island, A Helicopter Trip and Madison Square Basketball, New York, US - 27th March 2007
Today's trip is to head down to Battery Park and get a ferry out to see Liberty Island. It's not without its complexity as at first we end up with tickets to some sort of non-stopping cruise. Luckily, we manage to tout one of them off to a passing Swedish tourist before getting the correct ticket for the Liberty/Ellis circle. It's not like the old days (i.e. 1995) when you could turn up and visit the statue, as we discover when a park ranger informs us that we should have booked at least a day in advance if we wanted to go in to the statue. Meh. Nevertheless, it's still a nice wander around and a chance to look at Manhattan from across the river and to once more see "Lady Liberty" close up. Later, we take a helicopter trip around Manhattan to see some of the sights from the air, and then we go and see a college basketball game in Madison Square Garden. It's the final of college basketball's National Invitation Tournament (the NIT), between South Carolina's Clemson University - The Tigers - and West Virginia University - The Mountaineers. And because it's college basketball, and not some pro game, the camera is even allowed in. Isobel, meanwhile, gets to tick off another item on the "list of American Icons" as she orders us a couple of foot-long chilli and cheese dogs to eat whilst we watch.
next album: A Return to Fire Island, Long Island, New York State, US - 30th March 2007
previous album: Crossing Brooklyn Bridge, New York, US - 26th March 2007
Isobel in the Upper East Side bagel bar
Crowds in Battery Park
A cluster of buildings in Battery Park
A passing seagull
A classic view of Manhattan
The boroughs of New Jersey, Manhattan and Brooklyn
Another seagull shot, and Manhattan in the distance
The Statue of Liberty
Liberty looks towards Manhattan
In the ferry, bulkhead lights illuminate the way
A tourist does a bizarre pose
Isobel flakes out on a wall
Liberty and Old Glory
Isobel roams around with the old Pentax
Isobel takes a photo of a gull
A 25c telescope
Isobel gives the peeper-scope a go
A photo of a photo
Peering over the Ray-bans
Nosher does the binocular things
Lady Liberty up close
The Empire State in the distance
A fish-eye view of the statue
Isobel sits on the ground and giggles at stuff
The 10mm fisheye provides interesting distortion
Isobel walks along a wall
Nosher with a camera back
The Liberty Island Ferry
A tourist waves goodbye
Ellis Island's old immigration center
The Ellis Island ferry's life belt
A people-dressed-as-statue snares a passing tourist
A break-dancing troupe perform in Battery Park
Some impressive acrobatics
One of the break-dance dudes goes around collecting
Collecting money
A dude limbos through a line of teenage girls
Inside Katz's Deli
Nosher takes a photo of his Pastrami Rueben
Katz's Deli
Newspaper boxes on Allen Street
Ironwork artwork
News boxes and an iPod advert
Isobel reads the paper
Fire escapes
Inside a New York laundrette
Isobel outside Engine Company No. 5
Downtown Manhattan
Conspiracy theory in Union Square
Two girls on a tower
City life around Union Square
A bizarre photoshoot occurs
A dude sells maple syrup and honey
An old guy does a demo with a vegetable peeler
Plants for sale by the film academy
Post no bills, except where there are bills posted
Life in a bar, briefly
Isobel looks at knock-off sunglasses
Our helicopter awaits
The pilot's view
A back-lit Liberty Island
The Statue of Liberty
Governor's Island from the air
Looking up to Midtown and the Empire State
Battery Park and Brooklyn Bridge
The World Trade Center site and Ground Zero
Empire state
The railway depot and the elevated railway
Central Park
The pilot again
Interchange and road tunnel
Isobel in the helicopter
There's a nice view of the Empire State as we land
Isobel on the landing pad
The New Yorker building
Madison Square Garden
The basketballers warm up
The cheerleaders do their thing
West Virginia's cheerleaders do some acrobatics
Basketball action
There's a shot at goal
There's a media scrum after the game
The tradition of snipping bits off the net
Nosher tries Isobel's hat on
Outside the New York Public Library
The library lions
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The bagel bar near to the Marriott hotel
The bagel bar near to the Marriott hotel
Isobel in the Upper East Side bagel bar
Crowds in Battery Park
A cluster of buildings in Battery Park
A passing seagull
A classic view of Manhattan
The boroughs of New Jersey, Manhattan and Brooklyn
Another seagull shot, and Manhattan in the distance
The Statue of Liberty
Liberty looks towards Manhattan
In the ferry, bulkhead lights illuminate the way
A tourist does a bizarre pose
Isobel flakes out on a wall
Liberty and Old Glory
Isobel roams around with the old Pentax
Isobel takes a photo of a gull
A 25c telescope
Isobel gives the peeper-scope a go
A photo of a photo
Peering over the Ray-bans
Nosher does the binocular things
Lady Liberty up close
The Empire State in the distance
A fish-eye view of the statue
Isobel sits on the ground and giggles at stuff
The 10mm fisheye provides interesting distortion
Isobel walks along a wall
Nosher with a camera back
The Liberty Island Ferry
A tourist waves goodbye
Ellis Island's old immigration center
The Ellis Island ferry's life belt
A people-dressed-as-statue snares a passing tourist
A break-dancing troupe perform in Battery Park
Some impressive acrobatics
One of the break-dance dudes goes around collecting
Collecting money
A dude limbos through a line of teenage girls
Inside Katz's Deli
Nosher takes a photo of his Pastrami Rueben
Katz's Deli
Newspaper boxes on Allen Street
Ironwork artwork
News boxes and an iPod advert
Isobel reads the paper
Fire escapes
Inside a New York laundrette
Isobel outside Engine Company No. 5
Downtown Manhattan
Conspiracy theory in Union Square
Two girls on a tower
City life around Union Square
A bizarre photoshoot occurs
A dude sells maple syrup and honey
An old guy does a demo with a vegetable peeler
Plants for sale by the film academy
Post no bills, except where there are bills posted
Life in a bar, briefly
Isobel looks at knock-off sunglasses
Our helicopter awaits
The pilot's view
A back-lit Liberty Island
The Statue of Liberty
Governor's Island from the air
Looking up to Midtown and the Empire State
Battery Park and Brooklyn Bridge
The World Trade Center site and Ground Zero
Empire state
The railway depot and the elevated railway
Central Park
The pilot again
Interchange and road tunnel
Isobel in the helicopter
There's a nice view of the Empire State as we land
Isobel on the landing pad
The New Yorker building
Madison Square Garden
The basketballers warm up
The cheerleaders do their thing
West Virginia's cheerleaders do some acrobatics
Basketball action
There's a shot at goal
There's a media scrum after the game
The tradition of snipping bits off the net
Nosher tries Isobel's hat on
Outside the New York Public Library
The library lions