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New York, Boston and RI : Oct, 2003

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Just below Greenwich Village is another unique character neighbourhood. Soho is known for its uniquely American contribution to world architecture : the cast-iron facade.
$Poshy Soho is filled with great facades like these. A truly American innovation, cast-iron facades were able to pull off European elegance and ornateness at a fraction of the cost.$ Poshy Soho is filled with great facades like these. A truly American innovation, cast-iron facades were able to pull off European elegance and ornateness at a fraction of the cost.
East Village apartmenet block.
Heading south from the East Village youll come across the landmark Puck Building, an important relic of New Yorks publishing industry.
New York, always famous for its great rows of apartment blocks.
The Stars and Stripes waving proudly from a Brooklyn rooftop.
In northern Brooklyns Greenpoint neighbourhood, everyone speaks Polish!
Graffiti art, Brooklyn.
Ashe enjoying the fall colors in Brooklyns huge Prospect Park.
Gated entrance to Prospect Park.
Geese and ducks in Prospect Park.
Swan in Prospect Park.
Looking across to Manhattan from Brooklyn.
Lower Manhattan skyline from poshy Brooklyn Heights.
Manhattan by night from Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Bridge towering over an old fire station on the Brooklyn side.
By the Brooklyn Bridge.
Brooklyn Bridge.
Maciej on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Crossing the Bridge.
Brooklyn Bridges famous gothic arches.
View of Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn Bridge.
The pedestrian walkway passes over the roadway on the Bridge.
On the Manhattan side of the Bridge, we searched out Bialystoker Place, a street named after Macies birthtown.
Across the Brooklyn Bridge now, our Manhattan tour begins in the Lower East Side. The north and eastern parts of the Lower East Side are known as a Jewish area. On East Houston Street we wandered past the famous Katzs Delicatessen and in the window we found this old ad...
More window displays at Katzs Delicatessen -- Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan both enjoyed Katzs meats!
Inside one of the Lower East Sides many synagogues.
Entering Chinatown where the Manhattan Bridge meets the Lower East Side.
Ashe enjoying Chinatowns #1 noodle dish!
Find your cheap Chinese imports here! Orchard Street.
Chinatown back alley
Giant Buddhist temple in Chinatown.
Not far from Chinatown (as seems to always be the case) is NYCs Little Italy.
Lady Liberty? Nope -- a restaurant rooftop.
And just south of the Lower East side, just south of where the Brooklyn Bridge hits Manhattan is the recently gentrified Seaport area.
The Seaport at dusk.
Early every morning, the Fulton Fish Market is alive with activity.
Not far from the Seaport docks is New Yorks Civic Center. Here, the Municipal Building and U.S. Courthouse can be seen.
A New York landmark, the Woolworth Building is still one of Lower Manhattans tallest skyscrapers.
At the very southern tip of Manhattan, one of the views from Battery Park.
The Shrine of Elizabeth Ann Seton, North Americas first saint, on the fringes of Battery Park.
More historic skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan.
Just north from Battery Park, huge statues flank the steps to Lower Manhattans landmark U.S. Customs House.
Another historic tower in Lower Manhattan.
Ashe with the Wall Street Bull, Lower Manhattan.
Statue of Washington stands boldly on the steps of the Federal Hall and looking towards the U.S. flag hung on the New York Stock Exchange Building.
Famous Trinity Church at the foot of Wall Street.
Skyscraper walls box one in when walking the Financial District.
Old meets new in Lower Manhattan.
Winding our way around Lower Manhattan, the tip of Manhattan, we arrived on the west side and the World Trade Center site, now a construction zone.
View from the Battery Park City boardwalk, across the Hudson River, to Jersey City.
Inside the World Financial Centers atrium complete with glass no older than Sept.11, 2001.
Yachts docked at the World Financial Center, Lower Manhattan.
Us along the Battery City boardwalk.
View of Lower Manhattan from the Staten Island ferry.
Lower Manhattan as seen from the Staten Island ferry.
Sunset colors over the Statue of Liberty.
Heading for Liberty Island.
Almost at Liberty Island.
Approaching the Statue of Liberty from behind along the island path.
A true patriot.
In all her glory...
View to Manhattan from Liberty Island.
Lining up at the Ellis Island Museum as immigrants once must have...
View from the immigration center on Ellis Island (an immigrants first glimpse of freedom).
Back on Manhattan, we started to work our way up the peninsula from Lower Manhattan. First stop : Greenwich Village and the old Jefferson Market Courthouse.
Greenwich Village is a leafy neighbourhood full of alleys and bends and great courtyard apartment blocks like this one.
Also in Greenwich Village, St.Lukes Place, with apartment No.10 made famous as the facade to the Huxtables home in the Cosby Show.
Romanesque church in Greenwich Village.
So thin, this building in Greenwich is known as 75.5 Bedford Street.
More East Village tenements.
A short walk east from both Soho and Greenwich is the East Village -- New Yorks most happening alternative neighbourhood.
Typical East Village.
Trying on hats in the Village.
Only in the East Village could you find the Psychic and the Tailor next door to one another.
Interesting billboard.
Ashe with friend outside East Village shop.
Street scene.
More apartments -- those famous brownstones and bricks.
Apartment stoop.
Tranquility can be found in many hidden away streets and lanes in the heart of Manhattan.
So many flags in NYC, we could hardly count them.
Somewhere near Midtown stand the last two wooden homes Manhattan.
Fantastic interior of one of New Yorks many churches.
West of Gramercy and occupying a huge chunk of central Manhattan is Chelsea and Garment District. This area is home to the famous New Yorker Hotel.
The Garment District is also home to Little Korea.
New Yorks famous subways.
Following Broadway up Manhattan from the East Village the next neighbourhood is Gramercy and the Flatiron District. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company building is a landmark in this part of town.
The old Met Life tower.
Another even bigger landmark here is the Flatiron Building, once New Yorks tallest skyscraper and standing at the top of Ladies Mile, what once was NYCs most glamourous shopping strip.
The Flatiron, named for its signature shape.
Finally, the Garment Districts most famous building, the very well known Empire State Building.
Again the tallest building in New York, the Empire State Building rises high above anything else in its neighbourhood.
Another angle.
And another.
And yet another look at the Empire State Building.
One more.
At the very foot of the Empire State Building and looking up.
Spectacular Manhattan views from the Empire State Observation Deck. Here, were looking north at Midtown.
Looking down at all those buildings dwarfed by and resting in the shadow of the Empire State.
The other side of Midtown, around Times Square and the Theater District.
Getting darker.
Sun setting over Lower Manhattan.
Darker still.
The lights of the city begin to come on.
Midtown views at dusk.
Lower Manhattan views at dusk.
Sunset over the Hudson River.
Lower Manhattan all lit up.
Bright buildings.
Down from the Empire State and looking back up.
Exploring Midtown -- we begin on luxurious 5th Avenue with all its expensive shops and boutiques.
Trump Tower -- sleek black glass and hanging gardens.
Inside the foyer of Trump Plaza.
The unique foot of the CitiCorp Center.
Atlas statue at the foot of the very Art Deco Rockefeller Center.
Rockefeller Center at night.
The famous ice rink at Rockefeller Center at night.
The historic Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Midtown.
Ashe types away in the recovered Bryant Park, a great patch of green near the NY Public Library.
NYC, home of the yellow cab. The Helmsley and Met Life Buildings can be seen in the distance down Madison Avenue.
The famous spire of the Chrysler Building, a Midtown landmark.
Just below the Chrysler Building.
Chrysler Building at night.
Grand Central Station.
An Art Deco favorite -- the French Building.
Sunrise colors over the Williamsburg Bridge.
Times Square.
Ashe in Times Square.
More of Times Square.
And more still.
Rounded monitor -- Times Square.
Times Square at night -- all neon and flashing lights.
More of Times Square at night.
And even more of Times Square at night.
We didnt make it in for the show...
Ashe at FAO Schwartz toy store.
The incredible Metropolitan Museum.
Inside the Met.
Inside the Met.
The one-of-a-kind Guggenheim Museum on Museum Mile.
Tiny Russian Orthodox church in the heart of the Upper East Side.
Views across Central Park to the luxurious apartments in the Upper West Side.
The Dakota building in the Upper West Side.
Enjoying Central Park.
Ashe with our friend Laurel in Central Park.
Ashe, Maciej and Laurel in Central Park.
More views across the lake in Central Park.
Relaxing in Central Park.
Pond with bridge.
Boating on the pond.
More fancy apartment blocks.
Classic Central Park.
Fall colors in the Park.
A wall of green separates the Park and the busy city streets beyond.
Grants Tomb, a landmark rigth between the Upper West Side and Morningside Heights.
Ashe driving a tiled car near Grants Tomb.
Statue by the still-under-construction Church of St.John the Divine.
Tower at the Church of St.John the Divine in Morningside Heights near Harlem. When complete, it will be the worlds largest church.
Entryway to the Church of St.John the Divine.
Apocalypse scene on church pillar -- foreshadowing?
Main building at Morningside Heights famous Columbia University.
Fabulous brownstone blocks in Harlem.
Small church in Harlem.
Church door, Harlem.
You know youre in Harlem when...
Another great apartment front in Harlem.
Fantastic graffiti art, Harlem.
Once again, you know youre in Harlem when...
No longer in New York. We took a bus over to Boston to visit our friends Statia and James.
Harvard University -- all red bricks and white trim.
Church steeple at Harvard.
Fancy homes in the Harvard University area.
Homes and apartments.
Harvard cemetery.
Bostons fabulous historic Beacon Hill District.
Beacon Hill doorway.
Beacon hill block.
Beacon hill block.
A mix of styles and color, Beacon Hill, Boston.
Riverside, Boston.
Large schooner in Salems harbor.
Fall decorations, Salem.
Now in Salem, Massachussettes, the original Witch Town. Ashe doing her best to fit in.
Now in Providence, Rhode Island and visiting our friends Noi and Josh.
Ashe with Noi.
Fall colors at Brown University.
More fall colors on the Brown U campus.
Gate guardians at a small Laotian Buddhist temple that Noi took us out to for the afternoon.
Maciej with Noi.
Ashe with Noi.
Temple Buddhas.
Outdoor Buddha.
Now in Newport, Rhode Island -- called Americas Oldest Resort and with homes like this lining the shore, thats easy to believe.
The historic Breakers Hotel, one of Newports more prominent coastal buildings.
A more unique home on the rocky shores.
Following the coastal trail, we passed mansion after mansion like this one.
Ashe on the coast.
Another mansion.
Fall colors in Newport.
Last mansion.

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