A derelict Ramada coach in a Newark scrap yard
Times Square, USS Intrepid and the High Line, Manhattan, New York - 25th October 2018
Day Four in New Jersey/New York and we cram in an action-packed day which starts with a train ride to Penn Station, followed by a walk down 7th Avenue to Times Square, then a trudge across town to the Hudson River for a look around USS Intrepid, the aircraft carrier which amongst many exhibits houses G-BOAD - the BA Concorde which to this day holds the transatlantic crossing world record, with a time of 2 hours and 52 minutes. After that, we do the High Line - a converted former elevated railway that Isobel has been keen on doing since her previous stay in the Meatpacking District the year before. This ends up as quite a long walk, after which the boys are fairly wrecked, and it's all we can do to haul them back on the subway to Penn Station and then the train back to Millburn. The following day, we spend a few hours in Short Hills Mall before lunch at the Summit Diner, after which we head off home via Newark airport.
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The New Jersey Turnpike, and a derelict bridge
Crosswalk near 7th Avenue
7th Avenue, on the way to Times Square
Times Square
The signs are reflected in the cars below
We head off to explore
An FDNY van drives by at speed
The gang look around Times Square
There's some strange photo shoot going on
The Grinch looms over Times Square
It's busy in Times Square
Streams of traffic and crowds on Broadway
A cool number plate outside a piano shop
The pumpkin theme is certainly a Thing
We get some waffles from a van on 12th Avenue
The Intrepid on the Hudson
A Lockheed A-12 - the prototype SR-71 'Blackbird'
The boys in front of a Lockheed A-12
A Russian MiG
The Enterprise Space Shuttle
The prototype Enterprise, as flown from a 747
Inside a Russian Soyuz capsule
A US Marines Harrier jump jet
The Captain's day room
Fred takes the wheel of the Intrepid
Harry has a go, complete with helmet
Fred tries out the ship's compass
The bridge of the USS Intrepid
A collection of aircraft on the deck
Even massive aircraft carriers need wing mirrors
The last BA Concorde to fly to JFK
Concorde - it's a crime this isn't still flying
Fred on a sculpture
The gorgeous Concorde G-BOAD
Fred hangs around below decks on the Intrepid
We head down into the USS Growler
Looking up the conning tower
A former crewman explains the periscopes to the boys
Isobel in the dormitory
Isobel heads off through the sub
Isobel looks like she's got a proper grump on
The boys' pizza arrives
It's a quiet day in the diner
Fred in the diner
Brightly-coloured cast-iron basement steps
Diner stools
Isobel rounds up the boys
A traffic cop does their thing
The funky Michael J. Quill bus depot on 11th Avenue
Post no bills
A big train depot
Fred does his 'Statue of Liberty' thing again
Harry has a go too
We head off down the High Line
Stacks of silver train carriages
A derelict petrol station on 30th Street
The derelict Mobil petrol station
Some of the old High Line tracks
Fred runs around
coins on iron bridge girders
Run-down apartment blocks
More seedy apartment blocks
In between factory buildings
The building is full of amusing anti-Trump stuff
A prison version of Trump
Epic old tenement buildings
Apartment blocks and wall murals
Street art featuring some sad Lady Liberties
A graffiti-strewn body-work shop
Fred has a brief sit-down
More street art in Chelsea
A covered bit by the High Line shop
Some dude plays the cello
An Erhu player in a bleak concrete underpass
Trees grow up through derelict tracks
The boys are flaking out at the end of the Line
We've finally reached the end of the Line
'Give your daughters difficult names'
Harry doesn't like the noise of the subway
14th Street Subway
An alligator eats a child
Nice tiled sign at 23rd Street Subway station
We have to change trains at South Orange
Isobel waves a pretzel around at South Orange
A train comes in
A heron does its daily creep-around
Fred starts carving pumpkins
The boys carve their Alstede pumpkins
Fred's pumpkin vomits out its insides
Fred and Isobel in the kitchen
Fred's other pumpkin is a cool skull
There's a small stag deer in the garden
The deer trots away
Fred's enjoying 80's retro game Simon
Isobel strides past Macy's in
Fred and giant sphere
The boys are overwhelmed by Big Lego sets
A funky numbers sculpture
Harry and Fred hang around in Short Hills Mall
Main Street in Summit
The Summit Diner
Fred and Isobel in the Summit Diner
The kitchen end of Summit Diner
Fred plays with some Lego
Customers at the counter
Someone's lunch is on the counter
More Summit Main Street
Harry wanders past a fire hydrant
Pizza Vita in Summit
Harry dances up the pavement
We pass a modest pad on the way to the airport
Springfield is everywhere
There's a bit of a sign overload
The New York skyline in the distance
In the terminal at Newark Airport
Our plane back to London
Fred hauls his case onto the plane
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A derelict Ramada coach in a Newark scrap yard
