This is how I'll remember New York: Busy, charming, delightfully full of ads
Day 26 – The last day! How did this happen?? Why aren’t we staying in this country for another three weeks? At least our flight doesn’t leave until evening so we have the whole day to explore. But there’ll be no more motels, no more long drives, no more seeing fantastic new landscapes every other day. The guys want to go back to the American Museum of Natural History, because we missed so much of it yesterday. Despite also wanting to see the museum I’m going to strike out on my own today though, because there’s a few places I still crave to see. So we’re going to split up for the day and meet back at our hotel in the evening.
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Posted 29 August 2009
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Tagged: american museum of natural history, apple logo, apple store, fancy glass, glass structure, half an hour, huge collection, iphone, landscapes, mecca, moma, moma museum, motels, museum of modern art, new york fifth avenue, paintings, stairs, vibe, yup
Empire State by Night
Destination: Empire State Building! One would think it visible from a distance, but from the streets it’s really only visible in glimpses because all the other buildings are high-rises in their own right. Standing at the base it was a dramatic view to look up though with the top floors illuminating the surrounding clouds.
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Posted 28 August 2009
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Tagged: art deco, bold lines, clouds, couple minutes, damn thing, dramatic view, elevator, empire state building, fresh air, glee, glimpses, high rises, hindsight, holes, queues, rain, tick, visibility
Ugh, rain
Day 25 – Rain. Not every day in NY is a blue sky, especially not at this time of the year.
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Posted 28 August 2009
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Tagged: architecture, blue sky, bridges, central park, dioramas, gigantic city, glance, guggenheim museum, john lennon, map, memory, new art, planetarium, quiet place, rain, spiral, strawberry fields, streams, tourist bus, walking through the park
New York skyline
Day 24 – 1.6 million people squeezed onto an island just 60 km². That’s crazy, and it shows. Manhattan is a dizzyingly vertical cirty, with huge skyscrapers vying for attention and every road an impossibly straight trench between imposingly high buildings. With just two-and-a-half day in New York we have to work efficiently to see it proper, so what we’ve done is purchase tickets for the tourist city buses that drive around to various landmarks.
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Posted 27 August 2009
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Tagged: bell of hope, brooklyn bridge, city buses, empire state building, flatiron, ground zero, half day, heavy construction, high buildings, inner city, memorials, new tower, new york skyline, nyc skyline, skyscrapers, telling tales, timeout, times square, touching stories, tourist city
