Our Photo Album / East Coast USA 2007 / New York

All the photos from our 7 night stay in New York City

The toll booths on approach to the Lincoln Tunnel	After the toll booths. 14 lanes merge to just 3! It looks calm here, but it gets crazy as you get closer	Inside the Lincoln Tunnel	Exiting the Lincoln Tunnel, the Manhattan skyline looms	Exiting the Lincoln Tunnel, first glimpse of the Empire State Building
How nice, even the soap welcomed us	Our room at the Hilton Garden Inn Times Square	Our room at the Hilton Garden Inn Times Square	Sealions at the NY Aquarium	Walrus at the NY Aquarium
Starfish	Jellyfish	Penguins	And a very cute otter	Myfanw outside the NY Aquarium
Coney Island boardwalk. Amusement Parks one side, the beach on the other	And the reason for our trip out to Coney Island, the Cyclone!	Alan on the Cyclone lift hill	One of the drops on the Cyclone	Alan on his second ride
Astroland Amusement Park, one of the many 'parks' that make up Coney Island	Shoot The Freak, where you get to shoot a real live human with a paintball gun!	View from the boardwalk, with Coney Island subway station in the background	Juniors Restraunt in Brooklyn. A Cheesecake lovers heaven!	The view as we started to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge towards Manhattan
The Manhattan Bridge	View down on to the eastbound roadway	The Manhattan Bridge again	Brooklyn Bridge arty-type shot	The Empire State Building
The Statue of Liberty	The westbound carriageway	Alan on the Brooklyn Bridge	Myfanw and Alan on the Brooklyn Bridge, downtown Manhattan in the background	Myfanw on the Brooklyn Bridge (almost all the way across!)
And the sign that welcomes you as you get to the end	New Yorks finest ;-)	City Hall	The view towards the World Trade Centre site, with a building that looks very similar to Canary Wharf Tower!	World Trade Centre site
World Trade Centre site	The first fire station to respond on 9/11. Not surprising, they were only about 20 feet away!	World Trade Centre site	Myfanw with 'Paris Hilton' at Madame Tussauds	Robin Williams
Myfanw with John Travolta and Nicholas Cage at Madame Tussauds	Donald Trump and Myfanw at Madame Tussauds	Myfanw and the Osbournes	Myfanw with Hugh Grant	Myfanw and Jon Bon Jovi
Myfanw with Simon Cowell	One of the money sidewalk hot dog vendors	Times Square	Times Square	Times Square
Times Square, where we spotted a few DUB cars driving through in a group	More NYPD cars at Columbus Circle	Myfanw on the Central Park Carousel	The Dairy in Central Park	Victorian Gardens, on the Woolman Rink in Central Park
The Balto statue	Central Park Zoo	Monkeys in Central Park Zoo	A snake in Central Park Zoo	More monkeys in Central Park Zoo
A polar bear in Central Park Zoo	Sealion at Central Park Zoo	The Delacorte clock outside the Central Park Zoo	Myfanw in the Tisch Children Zoo	A freshly shaved Llama at the Tisch Children Zoo
... and a very friendly goat!	The Alice In Wonderland statue in Central Park	Cleopatras Needle	The Belvedere Castle in Central Park	Bow Bridge in Central Park
The Bethesda Fountain in Central Park	The John Lennon memorial at Strawberry Field in Central Park	The Dakota, where John Lennon was shot	Ellis Island	The Statue of Liberty
Myfanw and Alan by The Statue of Liberty	Alan with downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn in the background	Ellis Island Imigration Museum	The Registry Room at Ellis Island	The sculpture from the World Trade Centre, damaged in the 9/11 attacks and now situated in Battery Park
The Bull in downtown Manhattan	Wall Street	Chinatown	Little Italy	Bloomingdale's
Tiffanys	Trump Tower	Looking west from the Empire State Building at night	The Chrysler Building from the Empire State Building at night	South east Manhattan from the Empire State Building at night
Myfanw on top of the Empire State Building at night	The Chrysler Building from the Empire State Building during the day	Looking south from the Empire State Building during the day	The Flatiron building from the Empire State Building during the day	Myfanw on top of the Empire State Building during the day
Alan on top of the Empire State Building during the day	The Flatiron building	The Metronome at Union Square	Madison Square Garden	The New York Knicks and New York Liberty locker room at Madison Square Garden
The New York Ranger locker room at Madison Square Garden	Rissoteria, brilliant Gluten-free Italian food in the Village	This is how they park cars in Manhattan. Space is at such a premium, they stack them on racks, and charge you around $7 for 30 minutes! It'll cost you at least $25 for a day!	The Alamo sculpture, which you can spin!	Grand Central Terminal
Inside Grand Central Terminal	The New York Public Library	Times Square	Myfanws "Joe's Famous Fudgie", a gluten-free desert she bought when we went to Rissoteria	Alans "Devils Food Cheescake" from Juniors Restraunt
The giant piano at FAO Schwarz	Rockefeller Plaza	Myfanw outside the NBC Studio Tour	A steaming manhole cover. These seem to be a famous New York thing, so I had to get a photo of one!	A B-line subway train at 81st Street station
81st Street subway station, various nature mosaics as it is also the station for the The American Museum of Natural History	The American Museum of Natural History	Inside the American Museum of Natural History	One of the many diaromas in the American Museum of Natural History	A few from our hotel window at dusk
The gift from Italy outside the UN Headquarters	The knotted gun sculpture outside the UN Headquarters	The Security Council chambers at the UN Headquarters	The Economic Council chambers at the UN Headquarters	The General Assembly council chambers at the UN Headquarters
Myfanw outside the UN Headquarters. Notice the lack of flags, due to the second Secretary General passing away the day before our visit	Inside the Guggenheim Museum	One of the first art works you come to in the Guggenheim Museum, the lights flash in time to music being played. Very cool	Another view from our hotel window on Saturday morning, showing two cruise ships docked at the port at the end of 50th Street on the Hudson River	The riverside area by the Hudson, at around 46th Street
Alan pumping water. Why? Who knows!	The plaza area on the side of the Hudson River, around about 44th Street	Alan looking out towards New Jersey over the Hudson	The Nederlander Theatre, where we went to see 'Rent'. A great show, well worth seeing.	This is the Subway entrance for Times Square/42nd Station. It doesn't look that jazzy inside!
Another Times Sqaure shot. None really capture the feeling and the buzz you get when you're there	A signpost!	The Fire Station situated one block south from our hotel on 8th Avenue. They seemed to be going out at least once an our, if not more! Sirens blaring each time!	The M&Ms store at Times Square	The Hershey store at Times Square
The other side of the Hershey store	The Ferris wheel inside the Times Square Toys'R'Us store	Myfanw and Shrek, inside Toys'R'Us	An advert for the Mini Cooper in Times Square. You don't get advert boards like this in the UK!	Our plane home

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