NYC!!!

New York City is an amazing place to visit but one needs more time than a week to see everything.  Our "bus tour" showed us a lot of places but we couldn't stop because of time constraints and that was after spending 10 to 12 hours a day sightseeing!

We were in New York City on an 8-day rally booked through Fantasy RV Tours, who also book FMCA and Good Sam rallies and tours for all you RV'ers out there.  They didn't waste any time getting us out sightseeing.  First stop, after a "light" meal and a drink should have been to take a nap there was so much delicious food at Surf City (at Liberty Harbor Marina & RV Park, Jersey City) but it was off to Alexander Hamilton Park in Hoboken, New Jersey where we got a fantastic view of New York City.  Hamilton Park is near where Hamilton (former Secretary of Treasury) & Aaron Burr (Vice President) had their duel on July 11, 1804.  Hamilton was shot and died the next day.  The Lincoln Tunnel access covers the actual site.  The duel was in New Jersey because it was illegal to duel in New York, where they were from.

Lee took this picture with his iPhone

Manhattan skyline, this part of the Hudson River is where Sully Sullenberger successfully landed a US Airways plane, in 2009, after the plane had hit a flock of Canadian geese.  Everyone survived. (Tall building is Empire State Building)

Sunset from the Top of the Rock, Rockefeller Center, unfortunately I couldn't get close enough to the glass panels to stick my camera through the small opening to get a clear shot

The top of the Chrysler Building at sunset, taken from the top of Rockefeller Center

One must practically lay on the ground to look up at the top of the buildings in New York.  Could be bad if one has vertigo!

The Flatiron Building, completed in 1902, is triangular in shape, 5th Ave. and Broadway

Lady Liberty at night, as we did a champagne cruise around her, we visited her later in our visit

It's difficult to take really clear pictures with a "point and shoot" camera when the boat is rocking and rolling, and no, it's not because of the champagne!

The beams from Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center stood before 9-11-2001, are only lit during the week of September 11.  Our visit to the site was on Sept. 12, a few days after these pictures were taken.

Grand Central Terminal celebrated its 100th birthday in 2013.  It had undergone a 12-year renovation getting ready for its big birthday and it is once again beautiful and elegant, not to mention busy!

The High Line,  a 1-mile linear park built on a part of an old elevated New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line

View from the High Line

Washington Square Park, Lower Manhattan

Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, building started in 1892

I'm not sure what has happened to my blog but obviously this is not all of New York City, about half of this posting has disappeared.  Sometimes I dislike computers a whole lot!  And this is one of those times.  The rest of New York will be in another post.