New York-New York-New York - The Town So Nice They Named It 3 Times

[Sekkle]

Tourist-Style NYC

This summer I was in NYC briefly with my wife and son who had never been, so we spent a couple days in the city doing the tourist thing. We didn’t have a whole lot of time – 2 days before we went upstate and a half day at the end of our trip, and with a young child, it’s difficult to do a lot of walking and photo-taking, but I did my best. I’ve been to New York many times, but I’m always in awe of it.

These are pretty touristy pics, and we’ve all seen Manhattan on here before, so I did some heavy editing on a few of these with the software I have at work just to see what else I could come up with.

Herald Square









We went up in the Empire State Building. I went up when I was really young, and was curious to check out Top of the Rock this time, but since I was playing tour guide to my son, we decided it would be a lot more impressive for him to tell his friends he had been to the top of the ESB. It was pretty hazy, but great views nonetheless.











Back to the ground and it was raining











Canal Street. I used to stock up on Dancehall mix tapes and bootleg CDs when I came here as a teenager.



Topless man alert












Downtown








Back to Midtown for a musical saw serenade







Central Park.






“Yeah, can you draw a picture of me and pretend I’m sitting next to a girl?”


Upper East Side.







We had dinner with my cousin who lives in Manhattan at the pizza place in this photo. Someone told him it was supposed to be the best pizza in the city… eh. I wondered how many pizza places claimed that. Anyway, it wasn’t the New York style pizza I was used to. Not bad, though.







The Times Square area… I’m not a huge fan of it. It’s a little too crowded and gaudy for me. But worth a stroll through if you’ve never been. These are from two separate days – one at the beginning, one before, one after our trip upstate.









I ate at that Sahara Grill when I was in NYC a few years ago. I make it a point to go back everytime I’m in Manhattan.





Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass









The New York City Waterfalls – much more impressive in your imagination than in real life.



Greatest city in the world.

[ChrisLA]

In a way I hate looking at photos of New York because it just makes me want to jump on a plane to visit the city. I've been too many times to count, but you just never get tired of it.

Anyway I love your photos, thanks for sharing.

[Top Of The Park]

I would love to live there......but how do people afford it?

[Boris]

Wow, great set.

[vertex]

Great street shots!

[Kingofthehill]

Sweet.

Next time you should venture out of Manhattan, or at least more exotic locales.

Originally Posted by Top Of The Park

I would love to live there......but how do people afford it?

It all depends on where you move. There are tons of places worth checking out there.

[Sekkle]

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

Sweet.

Next time you should venture out of Manhattan, or at least more exotic locales.

I posted 2 threads of pics from the neighborhood in Queens where I stayed (Forest Hills). The purpose for the trip was less the city than getting together with family upstate.

[newboldphilly]

Originally Posted by Top Of The Park

I would love to live there......but how do people afford it?

. . . they live in Brooklyn or Jersey City

[chopsky]

Originally Posted by ChrisLA

In a way I hate looking at photos of New York because it just makes me want to jump on a plane to visit the city. I've been too many times to count, but you just never get tired of it.

Anyway I love your photos, thanks for sharing.

Ditto.

[NYC4Life]

Glad to be from this amazing city. Great photos!

[SLO]

Fantastico. I need to get back for a spring visit.
Really great shots.

[TransitEngr]

Magnificently done... certainly no reason for the opening disclaimer to get our expectations lowered. :-)

Also... a lot of very non-touristy shots here... showing the grit the grime and all of the sidewalk busy happenings that make NYC unbelievably attractive.

Careful.... your son will get bitten by the NYC ambition bug... he might want to end up there.

Hats off.

[Austinlee]

Great street life pics. Very cool.

[CGII]

Excellent photos, but I didn't appreciate the blatant lying to us all.

Originally Posted by ForAteOh

The New York City Waterfalls – much more impressive in your imagination than in real life.

[dugdogmaster]

Rockin, I love Manhatten I can't believe The Lion King is still playing!

[hkskyline]

Nice, sharp shots.

What's that awful post-modern tall thing in the financial district?

[KVNBKLYN]

Originally Posted by hkskyline

Nice, sharp shots.

What's that awful post-modern tall thing in the financial district?

I'm guessing you mean the latest abomination to hit the NYC skyline, the yellow pixelated William Beaver House. It's high-priced rentals geared to young financial industry workers. It has a beaver as it's mascot and used to be notable for its blatant use of sex in its marketing campaign (it's called the Beaver House, for christ's sake). Their website has been toned down, though.

http://www.williambeaver.com/

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by KVNBKLYN

I'm guessing you mean the latest abomination to hit the NYC skyline, the yellow pixelated William Beaver House. It's high-priced rentals geared to young financial industry workers.

It's condos, not rentals.

Supposedly it was initially marketed to young financial types, but the buyers have been heavily foreign and from a broad spectrum of ages.

Designed by Tsao & McKown, who are considered trendy younger architects.

[Burgh15]

Very nice pictures! I have to make another visit there.

[LSyd]

awesome. i can't wait to go back.

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