Whilst waiting for sushi in Millburn, Nosher spots Goldberg's, all lit up in red
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.
next album: Short Hills, Summit, and the Way Home, New Jersey - 26th October 2018
previous album: Pumpkin Picking at Alstede Farm, Chester, Morris County, New Jersey - 24th October 2018
We carve up our pumpkins from Alstede Farm
The lake in the back garden
A derelict Ramada coach in a scrap yard near Newark City
The New Jersey Turnpike, and a derelict bridge
7th Avenue, on the way to Times Square
The signs of Times Square are reflected in the cars that drive beneath them
An FDNY van drives by at speed
The gang look around Times Square
Nosher and the boys
There's some strange photo shoot going on
It's busy in Times Square
Streams of traffic and crowds of people, looking down Broadway
A cool number plate is spotted - pianos - outside a piano shop
The pumpkin theme is certainly a Thing
We get some waffles from a van near the Intrepid on 12th Avenue
The aircraft carrier Intrepid, with its catapult arms sticking out
The boys in front of a Lockheed A-12 - the forerunner of the SR-71 'Blackbird'
The Lockheed A-12 - a Mach 3 reconnaissance aircraft
The Intrepid now has an actual Space Shuttle - the prototype Enterprise, as flown from a 747
Inside a Russian Soyuz capsule
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
Even massive aircraft carriers need wing mirrors
The Intrepid now also houses the last BA Concorde to fly to JFK
The stunning British Aerospace / Aerospatiale Concorde. It's a crime this isn't still flying
The exhaust ducts of two Rolls-Royce / Snecma Olympus turbojets
The gorgeous Concorde G-BOAD
Fred hangs around below decks on the Intrepid
We head down into the USS Growler cruise-missile submarine
Looking up the conning tower
A former crewman explains the periscopes to the boys
Isobel heads off through the sub
The torpedoes
Down on the very west of 42nd Street, we find a diner
Isobel looks like she's got a proper grump on
Fred in the diner
Brightly-coloured cast-iron steps lead down in to the basement
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
A derelict Mobil petrol station on 30th Street and 10th Avenue
Bits of the original High Line railway are still around
People have flung coins onto the iron girders. Presumably, not all landed on the girders...
Run down apartment blocks
In between factory buildings
The building is full of amusing anti-Trump stuff
Epic old tenement buildings
Street art featuring some sad Lady Liberties
A graffiti-strewn body-work shop
More street art in Chelsea
A covered bit by the High Line shop
Some dude plays the cello
There's a guy playing some amazing Erhu in a bleak concrete underpass
Trees grow up through derelict tracks
Two miles later, near the end of the walk, The boys are flaking out
A light-bulb sign suggests 'give your daughters difficult names'
Harry doesn't like the noise of the subway
14th Street Subway
Nice tiled sign at 23rd Street Subway station
We have to change trains at South Orange
Isobel waves a pretzel around at South Orange station
A train comes in
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Whilst waiting for sushi in Millburn, Nosher spots Goldberg's, all lit up in red