A Manhattan Hotdog, New York, USA - 21st August 2011

It's the day after Phil and Tania's wedding, in the leafy burbs of New Jersey - the Garden State. Nosher, Sean, Hamish and Martin are hanging around in the morning waiting for the post-wedding Brunch, in between bouts of dropping people off at the nearby Summit Station, courtesy of Martin's hired V-6 Mustang convertible. Following the brunch, Martin drops Nosher off at the station, after which there's a train ride to Penn Station and a wander around Manhattan for a few hours. The only real mission is to eat a hotdog, which Nosher achieves at Bryant Park, behind the New York Public Library, on 42nd Street. In fact two are eaten, as the mission was a request from Isobel, who had stayed over in Mallorca for an extra day and by this time was back home with The Boy: hers had to be eaten too, obviously. The wander ends when the skies open, and the canyons of Manhattan fill up with a wall of rain, reminiscent of the scene in "The Day After Tomorrow" when the wall of water sweeps in from the ocean.

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Outside Penn Station, near Macy's

Outside Penn Station, near Macy's

Further up 7th Avenue

A rickshaw takes a break by a hot dog stand

Papaya Dog on East 33rd and 7th

A view of the Empire State Building on 5th Avenue

Old signs on 33rd Street

Dereliction on 33rd Street

A view of the Empire State from 33rd Street

Shiny fire hydrant

A neon 99c Store

A black and gold building

A New York cab steams across an intersection

On the Avenue of the Americas

In Bryant Park

Intersection crosswalk

The shiny new Bank of America building

The hotdog stand

Nosher's second hotdog - with Sauerkraut

Bryant Park café culture

More Manhattan dereliction

A traffic cop

A hotdog stand near Times Square

Heaving masses in Times Square

Another hotdog stand

Some photo-shoot occurs

An NYPD 'golf cart' mills around

Times Square

The NYPD are doing PR sessions

The New York Police Department

Big Yellow Taxi

Traffic down 7th Avenue

Building adverts

Another look at the Empire State Building

Opposite Penn Station, a wall of rain closes in

Rain lashes down

Umbrella action

Taxis in the rain

A derelict tin building

Some sort of semi-wasteland

Manhattan forms the back-drop to Newark airport

The sky turns yellow as the sun sets

Back at Paddington Station

Further down the platform at Paddington

Class 43 locos at Paddington Station

The main concourse at Paddington

Going down into the Underground

An underground train pulls in

An underground passage

Another underground train at Oxford Circus

Liverpool Street station's concourse

Nosher's Class 90 waits to leave

First on the old Mark 3 carriage

A sluice gate at Bramford

The remains of the British Xylotol factory

A derelict office block at Bramford

More derelict buildings in Bramford

A pink-roofed derelict building

The former British Xylotol factory