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| the new World Trade Center |
What can I say?
No other place on earth like it! We
spent 4 days & nights in the city & had a blast! Sue is still vibrating from all the noise
& excitement.
By staying in Staten Island, it took us just over an
hour each time we went into or out of the city, either by subway/ferry or by
bus. There is a Looper who lives at
Great Kills in Staten Island who is the AGLCA Harbor Host for NYC & he went
way above & beyond to make our stay comfortable & memorable.
We have been to NYC several times before, especially
since our daughter went to college at New York University – right in the middle
of Greenwich Village. We had even done
Times Square at New Year’s Eve, so we had that one crossed off our bucket list. So this time, we did something old, something
new, and most importantly, we DID NOT get lost in the city!
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| At the 9/11 Memorial. The buildings above our heads are REFLECTED by the glass building behind us. |
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| At John's Italian restaurant, where we first ate in 1994 |
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| Riding the Staten Island Ferry, we had an escort with a machine gun |
We saw the new 9/11 Memorial & museum, ate Italian
at a favorite restaurant in East Village, visited MOMA (the Museum of Modern
Art) & saw the original painting by Henri Rousseau which our granddaughter
had copied for an art contest in New Orleans, saw two Broadway shows (we
finally saw “Phantom of the Opera” after our daughter had seen it twice; and we
saw “Airline Highway”, about life in a slum motel along Airline Highway in New
Orleans), ate some good food but also ate hot dogs from the corner street
vendor (and survived), and made many many memories.
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| Sitting in a Dunkin Donuts along Fulton Street, I look across the street to see the original headquarters of Keuffel & Esser. All you engineers will recognize K & E as the inventor of the slide rule. I remember using my father's slide rule when I started college (in the prehistoric days!) |
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| Is there any other reason NOT to drive a car in downtown Manhattan ?!? |
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| Oh wait........how about non-stop traffic jams !?! |
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| We saw familiar sights |
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| Times Square at night |
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| Next to Times Square, you chocoholics will love this place! |
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| Nonchalantly cruising into New York Harbor |
A highlight of this part of our travels was taking our
own boat through New York Harbor, dodging the ubiquitous ferry boats, to take
some dynamite photos right in front of the Statue of Liberty. At the time, we had another Looper boat with
us, so we photographed each other’s boat in front of the lady.
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| Just because I'm heading into the world's busiest harbor, do I look worried? |
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| Looking right at the Lady |
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| Our friends proved that we were there, even with our dirty moustache on the bow. |
On our departure day, we started by leaving Staten
Island into Raritan Bay, where the seas were 2-4’ with whitecaps everywhere, and
ended the day 50 miles north of NYC along the quiet calm Hudson River. Quite a day.
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| Just a passing friend. Minutes later we saw him shooting all his water cannon in lower Manhattan |
I saw this slogan on a Looper's website:
ADVENTCHA BEFORE DEMENCHA
seems to fit
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