South View
The Statue of Liberty is there, hidden in the haze somewhere
West View from the 86th Floor
West View
Hudson River
North Side 86th Floor
The Rockefeller building (Top of the Rock can be seen about 10 seconds into the clip.
East Side 60th Floor
Chrysler Building and East River
Haze and reflections of people passing spoil the quality – hoping for better once we get to the 86th floor and the open observatory
Empire State Building
102 stories of Art-Deco-style supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighbourhood of Manhattan.
The building was designed by and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from “Empire State”, the nickname of New York State.
Unfortunately, the air quality was not good today, and the haze severely limited the longer-range photos.
Monday, 4th August. 3.05 am. Seriously, did we get up at 1.00 am? Yes, and now that it’s 8 pm New York time and I am still awake, it’s a bit of a miracle.
The journey from Gatwick was uneventful. The 767s from Delta have more legroom than the Air Canada ones I am used to travelling on, but the seats woefully lack padding, resulting in a pair of seriously numb derrière’s.
To avoid some of the bad air, we flew slightly further North than planned and over Greenland, the air was clear and very little cloud. We could clearly see the glaciers entering the sea.
JFK airport has to be one of the least inspiring airports I have ever been to. I think they never bothered to finish it. New York taxis are not the vehicles I had in mind. I was still expecting to see the Ford Crown Victorias and not the Nissan NV200s that are everywhere.
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3 (or 4) Glaciers entering the sea in Greenlab
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The slightly disappointing Nissan NV200 Yellow cab we used to get from JFK to Hell’s Kitchen.
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We are here for the week and looking forward to every minute of it.