Both sets of my grandparents are in town so I've been playing tour guide.

 

You'll see pictures of Battery Park and the South Street Seaport. I forgot to take my camera out while on the island and in City Hall Park, China Town and Soho - Hey be easy..Baby Steps for me.  :wink2:

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We start out down at the Battery, we wait in line for the boat.  The line stretched all the wasy to state/Battery/B'way.  (That is the equivalent of being at the RRHoF's entry and the line ending at E9 & Lakeside)  This at 10 AM and in 95 degree heat and humity.  I totally got sunburned.

 

Some pics of the building surrounding the park.  You can see the middle part of the line in the first pic.

 

 

 

 

 

Ellis Island

 

Statue of Liberty

 

Govenors Island

 

South Street Sea Port

 

 

The Brooklyn Bridge featuring one of the "waterfalls"  :roll: :roll:

 

 

Everyone favorite fugly building

 

West end of the Brooklyn Bridge and the PJs in the background

 

the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Willy-B bridges

 

Brooklyn Heights

 

that's all from the Seaport

 

 

 

 

 

What's up with the waterfall on the Brooklyn Bridge?

^Public art snooze installation.

That waterfall is definitely less impressive than I thought it would be, in my opinion. :(

What's up with the waterfall on the Brooklyn Bridge?

 

It's "public art".  Money spent on stuff that could go to people who NEED it. 

www.nycwaterfalls.org

Nice set MTS. As for the waterfall... tacky... tacky.

nice job, MTS  ;)

Nice set MTS. As for the waterfall... tacky... tacky.

You kids should have heard what my grand father said.  Especially when a speed boater had to be rescued for getting to close to one of the installations.

hey nice pics mts. is this when you were out and about with your grandparents?

 

for a minute i was going to go shoot all the waterfalls, but like everybody else i was so underwhelmed so.....

 

btw i read bloomberg personally paid for most of the waterfalls installations. billionaires can be dullards too.

 

Yeah, I would never go to Ellis Island or the Statue of Liberty if it weren't for them.  My grandmothers have a thing for eating a Celebrity TV chef resturants or restaurants they've seen on TV.  So initially were just going downtown to have lunch at Battery Gardens.  But my mothers mom wanted to go Ellis Island and my Fathers Dad wanted to go to the Statue of Liberty.

 

So as punishment,  :evil: I walked them from Battery Park, to the south street seaport, then west towards City Hall, then north to ChinaTown and we continued north into SoHo where we at lunch.

Based on all the hype, I was so psyched up about seeing the waterfalls (It’s not like they’re exactly a long trek for me!). Judging by your pictures, they (the falls, not your pics) really suck! The reviews and articles warned people not to expect another Niagara, but somehow I expected something a little more substantial. I guess they worked better as a concept. I keep thinking of the Over-the-Falls ride from long-gone Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland.

It looks like a water main broke on the bridge and they have scaffolding up to fix it.

Thanks for posting those. I have some fond memories associated with some of those places and views.

The other 3 waterfalls are even less impressive.

Nice stuff...I remember several of these scenes from my trip to NYC years ago.  Can't wait to go back.

Oy.

Looks good!