Chrysler Building

This might be the last one I post from our recent NYC trip.

Zuccotti Park

This is the park that was overcrowded with protesters from the "Occupy Wall Street" movement.  We got some pizza right across the street and ate it in the park, then rode the subway to Times Square.

15 Seconds Of Fame

The girls got their pictures up on a big screen in Times Square.

Putnam & Co.

Pictures On A Door

New York City Bulidings

No Standing

I made this photo on Broadway near Chinatown.

Freedom Tower

This shot was from our hotel in Jersey City.

Chinatown

We spent a couple hours in Chinatown on Tuesday afternoon.  Talk about an interesting place.  I would love to go and spend a whole day there exploring.  The little girl was at a shop on Bayard St.  Kim had stopped there to look at a jade elephant (she likes elephants) and she came out and spoke to us.  She and her mom and dad were very nice.

World Trade Center

The building on the left is One World Trade Center and the building on the right is the U.S. Post Office.  I'm not sure which WTC building the other one is.  I made this photo from the cemetery of Saint Paul's chapel.

World Trade Center Memorial

We went to the World Trade Center Memorial Tuesday evening.  It's hard to describe the feeling you get when you walk around and read the names of all the people that were murdered on that awful day.

Grand Central Terminal

We just got back from our trip to New York City and I wanted to post one of my favorite shots.  I know, this shot has been done to death, but I like it anyway.  I made the black and white shot but decided I liked the color version better, then I asked Kim which one she liked better and she said they both looked pretty cool and I should put them both up, so I did.  Anybody that has any comments on which one they like better, let me know.  I've got a bunch more pictures to process and post, but I think I'm gonna go to bed.

Intrepid

We went to the Intrepid Museum on Monday.  The Intrepid is an aircraft carrier that was commissioned in April of 1943 and fought in the Pacific in WWII.  It was pretty cool.  I didn't get a lot of shots on the ship but got a couple good ones from the ship.  I really like the photo of the "green" map room.  The walls were painted standard military "sea foam green" and the fluorescent lights just added that much more to the green color.

Greenwich Village Stuff

Best pizza we had the whole time!

Saint Paul's Chapel

I took a Saint Albans Fire Department patch and laid it with the hundreds of other Fire, Police, Military and EMS patches from organizations all over the world as a remembrance to September 11th, 2001. The first patches were pinned on a priests garment.

Some Interesting Graffiti

FDNY Squad 18

My daughter got this video of Squad 18 responding to a call. She had barely enough time to get her camera out and in video mode before they came by. Good job Molly!

Reading the Paper

Got this shot while the girls were purse shopping in Chinatown.

A couple favorites...

...from today. The top picture is one that I've seen before from other photographers but this one is mine. It's from an area of Brooklyn called DUMBO (Down Under the Mahattan Bridge Overpass). We had walked across the Brooklyn bridge and got a pizza at Grimaldi's under the bridge. It was pretty good, but not as good as what we had yesterday at Two Boots in Greenwich Village.

The other photo is at the corner of Nassau St. and some other street (a little Sling Blade action). I've got a ton more pictures that I'll post later but I'm gonna get ready to hit the hay so I'll be rested up for the drive home tomorrow.

FDNY

Here are some photos of some FDNY apparatus and a station we saw today. The fire station is Squad 18 on West 10th St. in Greenwich Village.

Ladder 4 was at the Intrepid Museum for someone stuck in an elevator.

Tower 12 and Ladder 5 were on a fire alarm call on Christopher St. Ladder 5 was so long and the street so narrow that I couldn't even get back far enough to get 2 shots to make a panorama.