New York Vacation 1-8AUG2008, page 1       by Steve & Mary Cain

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Vacation Highlights.
We flew into Newark airport and rode a train into Manhattan (map below). In Manhattan we traveled by walking, by subway, and an occassional cab ride. We arrived on Friday and stayed a week. Our son Michael and his wife Brooke joined us Sunday through Wednesday.

We stayed on the 16th floor (room 1607) of a timeshare hotel called The Manhattan Club. The lower half of the building was the Park Central hotel and the upper half was The Manhattan Club. There was an owner lounge on the 26th floor with a bar, an exercise room, and a computer room with printers. Our unit had one bedroom, 2 bathrooms, and a small greatroom with a queen sleep sofa and a half kitchen. There was no stove and no washer/dryer.

Carnegie Hall was diagionally across the street from us. Central Park was 3 blocks north. The Carnegie Deli was 1 block south. There subway entrances one block away. McDonalds was 2 blocks away and Subway sandwich shop was across the street.
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The sites we toured included:
Empire State Building Wall Street Statue Of Liberty
Chinatown Lombardi's Pizza Ground zero
Metropolitan Museum of Art Central Park Bloomingdales
Museum of Natural History Times Square Carnegie Deli
Waldorf-Astoria hotel Grand Central station Ellis Island
Majestic theatre
saw Broadway play
Phantom Of The Opera		 NBC studios at
Rockefeller Center		 Madame Tussauds
wax museum
Brooklyn Bridge Little Italy  


 


The Manhattan Club   link
200 W. 56th St.
New York, NY 10019
888-692-2121  




 

P6831 4AUG2008 View of New York from Liberty Helicopter flying over the upper bay. The islands are Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Sites of interest from left to right include: Jersey City, NJ, Hudson river, Ellis island, Empire State building in distance, Liberty island with Statue of Liberty, southern tip of Manhattan, East river, and Brooklyn bridge.

 

P6822 2AUG2008 New York city, the southern end of Manhattan, viewed from bay.

 

P6821 2AUG2008 Mary & Steve Cain in front of Statue of Liberty in New York, NY.


 

P6854 4AUG2008 Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in the south bay of New York city. Photo taken by Steve Cain who was on a helicopter tour while vacationing in New York. The statue was given to the US by France on 28OCT1886 to honor the centenial of the declaration of Independence. (It was given 10 years late. Height of the statue is 305 feet from ground to tip of torch. Half of this height is the pedestal. The statue is covered in 31 tons of copper that is 94 mils (=0.094 inches) thick. The torch has been replaced and is copper covered in 24K goldleaf.

 

P6823 3AUG2008 Skyscraper in New York City.

 

P6834 5AUG2008 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

P6836 5AUG2008 Sculptures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

 

P6835 5AUG2008 Steve and Mary Cain in front of the Temple of Dandur in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The temple was built about 15BC by the Emperor Augustus for the goddess Isis of Philae. In the 1960's, Egypt donated the temple to the United States to save it from a dam project which would have covered the temple with water. It was dissassemble and moved from Nubia, Egypt and reassembled in New York about 7 feet narrower and shorter.

 

P6837 5AUG2008 "Modern Art" on display in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This exhibit explains what the artist does with items he can't sell in his garage sale.

 

P6832 5AUG2008 The Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park in New York. The Lake covers 1/8 of the park area. There is a 1.5 mile jogging trail around the reservoir.

 

P6824 3AUG2008 Central Park in New York City.

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