A walk down Manhattan

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Yesterday I thought it might be a good Idea to have a wonder down to Wall Street to see what all the hoo-haa is about.

Wall St is located in the far south of Manhattan Island. The hostel we are staying is on 103rd St which is around the north west of Central Park, between the two is about 6 miles of Broadway.

It was so interesting walking from one end to the other watching how the character of the street (and colour of skin) changed as we got further south. I really enjoyed all the little parks the city has, they are are great for people watching.

It took about 4 hours to get down to Wall St, the place was teeming with media vans, police and people from Fox News with balloons saying "We own this story" eh? Anyway, the police had the whole thing barricaded off, so we couldn't get any where near.

Lisa suggested we take the Staten Island ferry. It's free and it sails past the Statue of Liberty on the way out, which I wasn't too bothered about, but the view of Manhattan on the way back is amazing.

Found a falafel bar for supper. It was really nice, we should have more of them in the UK.

P.S. If your wondering about the photographs that look a bit more like paintings, they are made by taking 3 photographs: one over exposed, one under exposed and a third normal one. You can then combine them in a piece of software called photomatix. It brings out all the details in the shadows and highlights. I'm totally addicted to them.

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Photos

Newspapers
All the front pages where about the VP Debate.

Law and Order
They where filming and epiode.

Broadway
HDR photo looking down broadway towards the start of the theatres

Lisa
We stopped off at Bryant Park of a coffee and a scone

Pam: Girl on the loose
You turn your back for 5 minutes...

Wall St
All the area a round the NYSE was closed off

Fox
They own the storey... apparently

Important building
I'm not sure why it's important, but it probably is.

Aother HDR Photo
Of another building I dont know what it is... but it's shiney.

The skyline
Another fancy pants HDR of the New York skyline

Comments

[Tristan]

Nice Pics
Hi Doug and Lisa, great to see you're having a good time. Liked the photos! Say hello to Snake Plisskin for me, although, I heard he was dead.

[gayna]

So Jealous
Hey Doug sounds and looks like you are having a fantastic time. I am loving your fancy 3 pics think it looks great especially the NY sky line. What is a fafel bar??? The only film I can think of with central station is Xmen...but you are righ there must be loads more