New York, January 2006
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America again
This time I go with my colleagues Alex, Andreas and Michael. And we planed to have one day of sightseeing in Manhattan.
We walk the well known route from 42nd Street down to Battery Park and then have another walk from 59th Street to the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal
In total we walked 14 km (about 8.7 miles). In between we had a ride with Staten Island Ferry and a Subway ride to 59th Street.
Weather was brilliant and we have seen a lot of differnt sights.
Flight goes from Berlin via Frankfurt to Newark
Arrival in Frankfurt
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Lufthansa already attuned the the soccer world championship
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Test of the cameras
Andreas and Alex
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Michael
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Off we go
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We leave Europe at the very north of Ireland. I can see peninsula Fanand (to the very left) and Rosgull (middle left) with Melmore Head peaking out. To the right I can see Horn Head
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Food
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Iceberg
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Flight impressions
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Lac Sainte-Anne in Kannad North East of Quebec
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Interesting snow bands close to Quebec. I suspect power lines or oil pipelines
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Mount Megantic East of Montreal. I was not able to research whether it is really an impact crater. But there are some traces of impacts and impact crater lakes in this area
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View to the Appalachian Mountains East of Montreal
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Approaching Hudson river
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Suburbs of New York
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Approach to Newark with brilliant view to Manhattan
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Statue of Liberty
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Verrazano Narrows Bridge behind New Jersey Turnpike Bridge
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Touched down. Manhattan in the background behind a Private Air jet and our Lufthansa airliner
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The limo is waiting
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The sightseeing tour in Manhattan starts at Grand Central station at 42nd Street
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Walking around
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Some breakfast
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The Chrysler Building - the most beautiful of all skyscrapers
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Steam from below
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Empire State Building in best weather
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Views from Empire State Building
Chrysler Building, behind it in black the Trump World Tower
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George Washington Bridge and to the right a piece of Central Park
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Statue of Liberty. To the right on the other side of river Hudson 30 Hudson Street in New Jersey
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At Madison Square 5th Avenue and Broadway cross. There we find Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (to the left) and Flatiron Building (to the right)
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I was there
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UN Building at East River
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Back down now on
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Andreas and Alex looking for more interesting things
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Washington Square - view back to Empire State Building
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Big wing - for sure quite important for the streets of Manhattan
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We noticed this brown building without windows during our last stay and did not find out what it was. Now we know. It is the AT&T Long Lines Building, a telephone switchboard facility. There are more of it in Manhattan
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Ground Zero is still a big construction site
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30 Hudson Street in New Jersey with the big Colgate clock
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Statue of Liberty comes in sight
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The Sphere in Battery Park
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Tourist rip-off in Battery Park
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Staten Island Ferry ride passing Statue of Libery and providing a nice panoramic view to Manhattan and Verrazano Narrows Bridge
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... enjoying the views
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Verrazano Narrows bridge - still the longest suspension bridge in the US and for quite some time the world's longest suspension bridge
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Michael and I
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Panoramic view of Lower Manhattan
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Staten Island Ferry passing Statue of Liberty
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The three big East river bridges Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge (from front to back)
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Manhattan seen from the water
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New York Stock Exchange in Wall Street
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Hotel Waldorf-Astoria
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Rockefeller Center with ice rink, Christmas tree and statue
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Crazy toy store FAO Schwarz. The toy Ferrari is about 50,000 US Dollars
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Times Square very fascinating in the evening
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ToysAreUs at Times Square quite crazy too. Three stories, Ferris wheel, all kinds of toys
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McDonalds in 42nd Street illuminated as all other shops around
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Flight back
Limo is waiting
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View from Newark Airport to Manhattan
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De-icing in Frankfurt
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German winter landscape
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No, TSA is off course not responsible for destroying the zipper when examining the content of the back
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