Manhattan

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The day after our visit to the World’s Fair, my mother and I took a morning Gray Line motor coach sightseeing tour of Manhattan. This was my first visit to New York City. The tour bus took us around Manhattan, stopping by the United Nations Building and Lincoln Center, passing through Times Square, and then driving along Central Park to Harlem. Later, we went up the Empire State Building for a view from the observation deck and made a trip out to Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty up close. Our hotel was the Park-Sheraton Hotel, near Times Square, an imposing brick edifice from the 1920s that looked like my conception of a big city hotel.

We had tickets one evening for the musical Funny Girl at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. Barbara Streisand starred as Fanny Brice, and it was the show that brought her to stardom.

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Photos

Liberty Island
Liberty Enlightening the World. The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. Dedicated in 1886.
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UNESCO World Heritage site. Inscribed in 1984.
"The Statue of Liberty, on Liberty or Bedloe's Island, presented to the United States by the French Republic, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, was designed by Auguste Bartholdi, and erected in 1886. It is 151 ft. high (to the top of the torch), is made of copper and iron and weights 225 tons. The granite pedestal in which it stands., designed by R.M. Hunt, is 155 ft. high and was contributed by citizens of the United States. ... Near the base of the statue is a tablet with an appropriate sonnet by Miss Emma Lazarus."--Baedeker 1909.
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Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan from Liberty Island, 1965.
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Ellis Island
Ellis Island Immigration Station. Opened in 1892 and closed in 1954. The brick building was completed in 1900. Opened as a museum in 1992.
Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island. National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places 66000058
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United Nations
United Nations Headquarters. General Assembly Building and Secretariat Building. Designed by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer and built in 1949-1950. 760 United Nations Plaza,
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Canyons of Manhattan
View from the Empire State Building in 1965. In the center is the Mercantile Building, built in 1929.
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Pan Am Building
View from the Empire State Building in 1965. The Pan Am (now Met Life) Building is in view. To the right is the spire of the Chrysler Building.
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Hudson River
View of the Hudson River and the West Side form the Empire State Building, 1965.
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Streetecape
New York brownstones in midtown Manhattan, 1965.
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Times Square
Times Square in 1965. Broadway between 43rd and 44th Streets. The Hotel Astor is to the left center, and the Hotel Claridge is to the right. The famous Camel advertisement is there. On 2 Times Square are advertisements for Braniff Airways, Canadian Club and Admiral appliances.
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New York State Theatre
New York State Theatre at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
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East Harlem
East 108th Street at 5th Avenue in 1965. The apartment building at 6-20 E. 108th Street is still standing.
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Harlem, 125th
125th Street near 7th Avenue in Harlem, July 1965. To the left is Herbert's jewelry store with a street clock in front. All of these structures have been demolished.
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