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Goodness, what a day!! What didn't we see?? I can only remember the highlights.
After an early brekky we walked over to the Greyline Depot by 8.40am to get our tour. The tour started at 9am and we weren't back to our room till 7.30pm!!!
We drove down to Battery Park via Everywhere (Time's Square, Macy's, Soho, Little Italy, Chinatown, Empire State Building, Madison Square, Madame Tussaud's) and then we caught the ferry (after taking off our watches, belts, bags and jackets for the security/x-ray check) over to Liberty Island and then on to Ellis Island. After explorations we caught the ferry back and went to the UN Building, via Everywhere Else - we drove right around Ground Zero at some point - they have already started work building the tallest building in the world there, to be called the Peace Tower. We passed a place of memorials, and down at Battery Park they have re-erected the sculpture that had been in World Trade Centre Plaza, along with an eternal flame. There were squirrels running around Battery Park. We also saw City Hall, and the Law Courts that we see on Law and Order. We saw the fire station that was used in Ghostbusters.
People who lived in the apartments down there couldn't return home for 6 months because of the asbestos sucked in by their air conditioners - everything had to be cleaned. We saw every apartment that anyone has ever lived in, including Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Al Pacino, Arnie Schwarznegger, John Lennon (and where he was killed) etc.etc.etc. We saw the theatre district, the Garment District, Harlem, Grants Tomb, 'Tiffany's and Trump Towers (where even Queen Elizabeth II has an apartment).
In the New York population, 30% of the people were born in another country. Hispanics comprise 30% of the minority groups, Afro-Americans 20%.
We had lunch at Applebees at Times Square, used the internet cafe next door to email the girls, then continued on the the UN building. Our luxury coach broke down whilst we were in the UN, and a grotty double decker collected us to continue on our tour to Harlem etc via Central Park.
We were dropped off at the Rockefeller Centre (49th & 5th) and walked back to our hotel (50th & 3rd). On the way home we walked across one of those grates in the sidewalk and could see a train going under us in the subway!! We returned to our apartment exhausted but happy and heated up some frozen quesadillas and fajitas for our dinner.
After an early brekky we walked over to the Greyline Depot by 8.40am to get our tour. The tour started at 9am and we weren't back to our room till 7.30pm!!!
We drove down to Battery Park via Everywhere (Time's Square, Macy's, Soho, Little Italy, Chinatown, Empire State Building, Madison Square, Madame Tussaud's) and then we caught the ferry (after taking off our watches, belts, bags and jackets for the security/x-ray check) over to Liberty Island and then on to Ellis Island. After explorations we caught the ferry back and went to the UN Building, via Everywhere Else - we drove right around Ground Zero at some point - they have already started work building the tallest building in the world there, to be called the Peace Tower. We passed a place of memorials, and down at Battery Park they have re-erected the sculpture that had been in World Trade Centre Plaza, along with an eternal flame. There were squirrels running around Battery Park. We also saw City Hall, and the Law Courts that we see on Law and Order. We saw the fire station that was used in Ghostbusters.
People who lived in the apartments down there couldn't return home for 6 months because of the asbestos sucked in by their air conditioners - everything had to be cleaned. We saw every apartment that anyone has ever lived in, including Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Al Pacino, Arnie Schwarznegger, John Lennon (and where he was killed) etc.etc.etc. We saw the theatre district, the Garment District, Harlem, Grants Tomb, 'Tiffany's and Trump Towers (where even Queen Elizabeth II has an apartment).
In the New York population, 30% of the people were born in another country. Hispanics comprise 30% of the minority groups, Afro-Americans 20%.
We had lunch at Applebees at Times Square, used the internet cafe next door to email the girls, then continued on the the UN building. Our luxury coach broke down whilst we were in the UN, and a grotty double decker collected us to continue on our tour to Harlem etc via Central Park.
We were dropped off at the Rockefeller Centre (49th & 5th) and walked back to our hotel (50th & 3rd). On the way home we walked across one of those grates in the sidewalk and could see a train going under us in the subway!! We returned to our apartment exhausted but happy and heated up some frozen quesadillas and fajitas for our dinner.
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