Some of you may remember that we went to Ireland last year (and the year before); well this year we went for a shopping trip to New York instead.
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The Manhattan skyline driving into the city |
more skyline (from the Brooklyn Bridge) |
The view from our hotel window |
Squirrels in Union Square |
This is Broadway and the theatre district |
The Chrysler Building |
Inside the Empire State Building |
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 More Central Park |
 and more Central Park |
We visited the site of the World Trade Centre, where the twin towers were destroyed on September 11th 2001. On the day we visited, the rail station connecting to New Jersey was just being re-opened after over two years.
The site of the twin towers from the |
The surface entrance to
Cortland Street Station |
just outside Century 21 |
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This is a panorama of the site
(made from three photographs taken from the Financial
Centre)
Notice that some of the buildings are still covered by sheeting
while they are being repaired
(you may need to set your browser not to automatically fit pictures onto your
screen to see more detail)
By they way, in Ireland we found that shops no longer gave their customers those little plastic bags into which they can put their shopping. Instead, we had to use the bags we had with us, and one of John Hannaford's bags became rather famous in the Cork area!
Well guess what? The Hannaford's bag came with us again:
 Inside the Empire State Building |
 Outside Macy's |
At the monument to John Lennon in Central Park |
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