New York Stories Part Deux

The next morning, Thursday, we had decided to go to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the Empire State building. We figured the subway was the way to go. There was a station a couple of blocks from our hotel that was heading to the South of Manhattan.

This picture I call waiting for the subway.


What we didn't know is that, in order to get to the most southerly part of that line you had to be in one of the first five cars. That meant we had to get off at the next to last stop. I've been having some problems with my gut area since late April. By the time we'd walked just a few steps from the subway all I could think was, "I have to get to a bathroom NOW!"

We were moving right along, so to speak, and I felt so lousy that I didn't even realize we were passing Ground Zero. Didn't have to stop and contemplate or anything. Found my bathroom in time, but felt kinda bad about the whole thing.

After that I needed a short rest so we sat on a bench and I shot this picture. Maybe a New Yorker could tell me what the building and clock are.


Then we took the long walk down to where you got tickets for the boat to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. That didn't take as long as I thought it would considering the long line of people. We got a spot on the boat and I took this photo of Ellis Island while were still on the boat.


I took a lot of pictures of this lady, but this one was my favorite.


After seeing the Statue of Liberty we were on the boat heading over to Ellis Island. I got this one from the boat. Is this the Brooklyn Bridge? I'm not sure.


While on Ellis Island I saw a seagull perched on the flag. I had to snap the picture. Ha-ha, even in New York I managed to get in a picture of a tree in flower and bird.


This is a crooked shot of Ellis Island as we headed out on the boat.


Here's one of the Manhattan skyline pictures I took on the ride back. You can see it's really hazy. But we both ended up with some pretty good sunburns that day.


Then we took the subway back up as close as we could to the Empire State building. I absolutely had to see it again because of its (betcha can't guess) Art Deco interior. Here are some shots of the interior.




The line to get up there was terrible. It took us well over an hour. I finally got out and took some shots from the 86th floor.

The Chrysler building is another Art Deco building.

I don't know what this building is either, but I liked its top.

The one behind and to the left of the Met Life building is the Citicorp building. I just like it.

Then I'm surprised I didn't get dizzy looking up at the top of the Empire State building when I got this one.

This was our elevator as we came down. I got a picture of it four years ago when we were here but my finger was in half of the photo.


Between trying to keep my balance on the boat and standing on the subway I was pretty tired and sore. We ate at a restaurant called Pigalle's and went back to the room for the evening.

On Friday we decided to go to the Metropolitan Art Musuem. The subway didn't go right there, so since it was pouring rain we ran up the steps of the Museum of Natural History. The rain didn't subside so we went into the gift shop and bought umbrellas. Then we walked on one of the roads that cuts through Central Park and made it to the Met.

I had trouble again getting the camera to not take blurry pictures as I had to have the flash turned off. The first pictures are from the Greek/Roman section.








Here are a couple from the Medieval Europe section.



I think this was from the Egyptian section.


As I said, I was sore from the boat ride the day before so we cut it short at an hour and a half. When we got back closer to Times Square we ate in a place called Ellen's Stardust Diner. The waitstaff must be waiting to go on Broadway. They sand and MC'ed the whole time. Then we went back to the TCKTS booth and got tickets to see Rent. That was a lot of fun.

The next day we headed out and went through New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio. We thought about going all the way home but there were storms so bad we could hardly see. At one point there was flash flooding on the highway. We just got a hotel in a place called Milan. When we left the next day it only took us 3 - 4 hours to get home.

And that is the story of Squirl and Ichabod go to New York.