New York, New York (Photos)

I haven't bothered including a lot of photos of views that everyone has already seen many times.
Rather, I will including shots that were interesting or noteworthy to us at the time. This method may or may not translate well to others looking at this, we shall see...



Barrelling down the New Jersey Turnpike. Sixteen lanes all doing about 110km/h. Quite the adrenalin rush! It was in places like this that the GPS unit was worth every cent.




The only sensible way to get to Manhattan is to drive to the Staten Island Ferry terminal on Staten Island, pay $4 to park the car for the day, pay nothing for the ferry, and be downtown in 40 minutes, brilliant.

The next day we took the car to the west side of Central Park, madness.

Liberty from the ferry

The first close up view of the city from the ferry.













I didn't realise that there would be many pleasant parks (this one is actually a church graveyard) on a personal scale amongst the huge buildings.

On the subway to Brooklyn

A pleasant Brooklyn street.

Downtown Manhattan from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
(If you click it, you might be able to see it better.)

On Brooklyn Heights Promenade


















On our walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. (Nicola is concerned the kiwi might fly away.)




















Angel of the Waters in Central Park - name the movies it appears in!













Central Park. I had never noticed that there are boulders and rock outcrops all through the park. A very nice place.













Me having a sensory meltdown in Central Park.


















A row of front steps on a street on the west side of Central Park. (This is my favourite photo - Nicola)

Nicola outside Cafe Lalo. This is the cafe used in the movie 'You've Got Mail' with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. We had lunch there.

From the Empire State Building looking south to the Grid Iron building.























Looking North East from the Empire State Building














A very small portion of the Six Flags Adventure Park, New Jersey. This shows part of the allegedly worlds largest wooden trestle roller-coaster. It is definitely insanely fast.

In the background is another roller-coaster that shoots up vertically into the upper atmosphere, curves around the top then roars down. There were 13 coaster rides at this park! We went on five.