The Big Apple is a moniker for NYC popularized by John FitzGerald in the 1920s, and New York obviously derives its nickname from the Empire State Building right? Wrong, it's the other way round, the Empire State actually came first, acquired in recognition of
its vast wealth and variety of resources .
Meeting our Atlanta host at at the shopping mall where the World Journal Bookstore is located.
At Courtyard Marriot, Jersey City, our temporary abode during our NYC trip. Since then, we have always stayed at the Marriot chain of hotels, trying to accumulate points for some free nights' stay in the future.
At the entrance to the PATH WTC terminal station. To the left and cordoned off is the reconstruction site of Ground Zero.
At the World Journal Bookstore on Broadway Avenue, Manhattan. Wify bought several chinese brush painting books by Chung-lin Yi at 20% discount lodged in the brown beg I was carrying.
This is as high as Wify would get to see "eye-to-eye" with a bird perched at the top of Empire State Building.
At the edge of Chinatown, NYC, along Canal Street.
Wify and CE "scaled" the Empire State Building, starting from the ground as shown. The red open-top double-decker bus is the Hop-on-Hop-off, a favorite among tourists while we prefer to explore on foot.
The Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island captured from the top of the Empire State Building.
Honey, I shrunk the Empire State Building!
The Chrysler Building, another iconic structure that dots the NYC skyscape, captured similarly.
The iron grill fencing that surrounds the observation deck at the top of the Empire State Building makes it seem safe even for the weak hearted, whom CE obviously is not.
Meeting our Atlanta host at at the shopping mall where the World Journal Bookstore is located.
At Courtyard Marriot, Jersey City, our temporary abode during our NYC trip. Since then, we have always stayed at the Marriot chain of hotels, trying to accumulate points for some free nights' stay in the future.
At the entrance to the PATH WTC terminal station. To the left and cordoned off is the reconstruction site of Ground Zero.
At the World Journal Bookstore on Broadway Avenue, Manhattan. Wify bought several chinese brush painting books by Chung-lin Yi at 20% discount lodged in the brown beg I was carrying.
This is as high as Wify would get to see "eye-to-eye" with a bird perched at the top of Empire State Building.
At the edge of Chinatown, NYC, along Canal Street.
Wify and CE "scaled" the Empire State Building, starting from the ground as shown. The red open-top double-decker bus is the Hop-on-Hop-off, a favorite among tourists while we prefer to explore on foot.
The Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island captured from the top of the Empire State Building.
Honey, I shrunk the Empire State Building!
The Chrysler Building, another iconic structure that dots the NYC skyscape, captured similarly.
The iron grill fencing that surrounds the observation deck at the top of the Empire State Building makes it seem safe even for the weak hearted, whom CE obviously is not.
2 comments:
I just found your blog (through Inkwatu) and like the way you go from philosophical posts to simple ones about going to the garden or going to NY. It's good reading and I hope you keep it up.
Thanks, John, for visiting and your encouraging words. Lately my work has taken up more of my time and as a result, my blog writing and reading times have been curtailed. However, I do look forward to sharing this space with any visitor more often in due course.
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