Millburn railway station
The Liberty Cruise and One World Trade Center, New York, United States - 23rd October 2018
It's day three of our trip to New Jersey and New York and we're back on the open-top bus, this time heading downtown to the financial centre. The traffic's heaving so we get off and walk the final stretch to the ferry port, where we take up the boat cruise that's part of the bus ticket. This turns out to be an extensive, well-narrated trip up to Liberty Island and then all the way up the East River to Brooklyn Bridge. After that, we head up the 1,776 feet to the top of One World Trade Center - formerly known as Freedom Tower - to admire the dizzying views of Manhattan. In the evening we meet up with Phil and Tania at the Serendipity restaurant/café for some more classic American eats, before we get a psycho Uber back to New Jersey.
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previous album: Open-top Buses and a Day at the Museum, New York, United States - 22nd October 2018
Another view of Millburn
A classic American loco
Harry puts a picture up to the train window
The gang on the train
The boys look out at the industrial wastelands
New Jersey pylons and the skyscrapers of New York
The brutalist joys of Penn Station
Macy's on 51st Street
The Empire State building
A busy crosswalk
A closed-off café street
A nice view of the Empire State
A giant statue which looks like a pair of buttocks
The Flatiron building from the side
A nice old building, with groovy fire escapes
Graffiti street
The First National City Bank, from 1812
A painted wall advert on the side of a building
Iconic shoes-on-a-wire
The impressive Bernard Semel building
Tantalising remains of an old painted business sign
The boys look for a lunch snack
Harry and Fred in a Deli somewhere
The WTC memorial
One World Trade Centre
A major contrast in buildings
A vanishing-point view of 1WTC
The new view of the financial district from the ferry
Empire State in the distance
The gang on the back of the ferry
Looking back to Manhattan
Ellis Island
The Empire State peeks out
Fred gets tangled up in a flag
Selfies are taken
At least there are enough lifebelts to go around
The Staten Island ferry
A floating navigation buoy
The Royal Navy's R08 HMS Elizabeth is in town
Derelict warehouses in Brooklyn
More Brooklyn dereliction
A Fire Department boat speeds past
More derelict buildings
A statue keyring, and the real thing
Curious constructions
A view of NYC behind Governors' Island
Wall art on a dockside building
Dockyard cranes
The tour guide does his thing
The Empire State again
Part of the old Queen Mary dock
Boat tourists look out at the view
A nice old ferry port
1WTC and the Battery
The boys run around
Harry hangs off a railing
Fred's tiny key ring trinket
Fred pretends to be a squirrel
A squirrel
Inside the bottom of 1WTC
Part of the prelude to visiting the top deck
A view from the top looking towards midtown
The boys at the top of the tower
Looking up the Hudson River
The whole of Manhattan is spread out below
Looking down on building work
Looking out east over the Brooklyn Bridge
Liberty Island
The boys roam around at the top of 1WTC
Fred and Harry
The gang roams around the observation deck
Isobel walks around
The new subway/PATH interconnect station
People mill around in the subway station
The Occulus is like a big rib cage
The Occulus
A huge candy store on 61st Street
Pigeon explosion, as a woman hails a cab
Serendipity Three
Fred, Harry and Tania
Funky decor in Serendipity
Phil scopes the menu
Harry nearly knocks everything off the mantlepiece
The boys' puddings turn up
The Cutter Building
A jumble of signs and windows on Madison Avenue
Shiny buildings and cars
An Amish market
Rubbish on the streets
In the Lincoln Tunnel on the way to New Jersey
A picture in lights of Manhattan at night
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Millburn railway station
Millburn railway station
Another view of Millburn
A classic American loco
Harry puts a picture up to the train window
The gang on the train
The boys look out at the industrial wastelands
New Jersey pylons and the skyscrapers of New York
The brutalist joys of Penn Station
Macy's on 51st Street
The Empire State building
A busy crosswalk
A closed-off café street
A nice view of the Empire State
A giant statue which looks like a pair of buttocks
The Flatiron building from the side
A nice old building, with groovy fire escapes
Graffiti street
The First National City Bank, from 1812
A painted wall advert on the side of a building
Iconic shoes-on-a-wire
The impressive Bernard Semel building
Tantalising remains of an old painted business sign
The boys look for a lunch snack
Harry and Fred in a Deli somewhere
The WTC memorial
One World Trade Centre
A major contrast in buildings
A vanishing-point view of 1WTC
The new view of the financial district from the ferry
Empire State in the distance
The gang on the back of the ferry
Looking back to Manhattan
Ellis Island
The Empire State peeks out
Fred gets tangled up in a flag
Selfies are taken
At least there are enough lifebelts to go around
The Staten Island ferry
A floating navigation buoy
The Royal Navy's R08 HMS Elizabeth is in town
Derelict warehouses in Brooklyn
More Brooklyn dereliction
A Fire Department boat speeds past
More derelict buildings
A statue keyring, and the real thing
Curious constructions
A view of NYC behind Governors' Island
Wall art on a dockside building
Dockyard cranes
The tour guide does his thing
The Empire State again
Part of the old Queen Mary dock
Boat tourists look out at the view
A nice old ferry port
1WTC and the Battery
The boys run around
Harry hangs off a railing
Fred's tiny key ring trinket
Fred pretends to be a squirrel
A squirrel
Inside the bottom of 1WTC
Part of the prelude to visiting the top deck
A view from the top looking towards midtown
The boys at the top of the tower
Looking up the Hudson River
The whole of Manhattan is spread out below
Looking down on building work
Looking out east over the Brooklyn Bridge
Liberty Island
The boys roam around at the top of 1WTC
Fred and Harry
The gang roams around the observation deck
Isobel walks around
The new subway/PATH interconnect station
People mill around in the subway station
The Occulus is like a big rib cage
The Occulus
A huge candy store on 61st Street
Pigeon explosion, as a woman hails a cab
Serendipity Three
Fred, Harry and Tania
Funky decor in Serendipity
Phil scopes the menu
Harry nearly knocks everything off the mantlepiece
The boys' puddings turn up
The Cutter Building
A jumble of signs and windows on Madison Avenue
Shiny buildings and cars
An Amish market
Rubbish on the streets
In the Lincoln Tunnel on the way to New Jersey
A picture in lights of Manhattan at night