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The Warwick Hotel, downtown Manhatten. Suprisingly flash for what we paid - I think they must have made a mistake...
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Carnegie Deli, where the waitresses really do say "cwofee" and where the hot pastrami sandwiches are the size of your head.
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J in Central Park. Looks warm doesn't it? Oh no.
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Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art - more modern art than you can shake your Jackson Pollocks at.
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Look - a school bus, like off the telly...
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J in Grand Central Station - too nice to be a station. Can you make that flag a bit bigger, I can't see it.
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The Chrysler building from the sidewalk. 319 metres high, fact fans.
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And again, from Lexington and 41st. She is the prettiest building in NY for my money.
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The Empire State, currently the tallest building in NY. And with the longest queues.
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J outside the ESB. Inside we also went on the Sky Ride - $8 worth of end-of-the-pier flight simulation.
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View from the ESB.
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Another View.
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Yep, another.
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I though I'd take a picture of something other than the view. I mean, once you've seen one sprawling metropolis...
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And these viewing thingies were pretty cool. A bet nobody takes a picture of these fellas. Much.
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J peering tentatively. She squealed every time I put my hands through the fence.
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The Love Sculpture by Robert Indiana was right next to our Hotel.
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Hanging out in da subway with J.
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Er yeah, we did a bit of shopping in SoHo (short for South of HOuston dontcha know). I bagged nine shirts, four t-shirts, two jackets & trainers.
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Our TV. We watched a lot of Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier and The Simpsons. Oh and pay-per-view new movies.
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Tiffanys, which have to say was a bit like Binns inside, or C&A.
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St Patrick's Cathedral sits inbetween the big shops and sky scrapers of 5th Avenue
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The Turneau Clocks, 57the Street
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A big yellow taxi - none of the old style taxis a la 'Taxi Driver' or 'Joe le Taxi' are to be seen these days.
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Fresco sculpture outside the associated press building.
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The Ice Rink at Rockerfeller Plaza, bonny at night.
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Filming the Today programme outside the NBC building. All the major networks have offices in NY and they lots of outside stuff.
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J on the subway
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The Statue of Liberty on a decidedly grey and chilly day.
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J marvels at the statue while manhattens towers glower in the background.
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DM and SOL
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J and SOL
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DM and SOL. Again.
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The flatiron building on 5th Avenue - Js fave old-school sky scraper
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One of the buildings around ground zero. Its black covering makes it looks an art installation
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and another - you can see the damage to the structure.
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A cross made from the girders of the twin towers marks the spot where they stood.
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DM in Hooters. Was expecting the waitresses to be less ropey, I have to say.
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Some Americans we met in Connerys bar - Jerry and Kelly. The hobbit-y one on the far right has nothing to do with us.
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J, Central Park
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DM, Central Park
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J, Central Park near the ice-rink
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Look, another bus like off the telly...
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Penguins, in the suprisingly well stocked Central Park Zoo.
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J with the polar bears.
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J in the tropical house, 'admiring' a dicky bird
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J and the seals, who were very jolly and jumped for us
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Dear God...
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Looking up, The Guggenheim Museum, interior.
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Difficult to take a bad picture of this building. It did have a lot of bad art inside mind
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Times Square one
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Times Square Two
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Times Square Three
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Times Square four
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Last one. Note the 100 foot poster of that hateful spaz, P Diddy.
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A close-up of the Chrysler Building
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The little walk man which has replaced the old WALK/DON'T WALK signs
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Radio City
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A sky scraper
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Some more sky scrapers
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J on the very lovely Brooklyn Bridge
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and again
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View from the Bridge
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And safely back on the island. This was a very pretty building
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A street stall, China Town. China Town is vast - as busy and full of sights and smells as the real China. Probably.
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J and DM at Katz - the diner where the annoying scene in 'When Harry Met Sally' was shot
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J with chicken noodle soup.
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and DM with half a cow in a sandwich
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Those familiar fire escape thingies.
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The flatiron building again
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A 'scraper that tells the time and temperature. The week we were there it was generally just below zero.
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The main doors, Tiffanys.
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A little, ahem, treat that I bought myself - an Ipod mini. Not out over here until April.
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Dm in a nice Jazz cafe, Greenwich Village
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A Taxi back to the airport - bye New York, good riddance self-righteous, objectionable New Yorkers...
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