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| "Bright Lights, Big City, Was quite extraordinary..." ~ Jason Mraz |
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| Spring Break I went to New York and it only took me four months to have the film developed. |
| The city scene... Notice all the classic New York stuff...sky scrapers, taxi, sub way entrance, broadway billboards, and street side hot dog peddlers....I planned it like that. |
| The view from the top of my aunt's twelve story apartment building in Brooklyn Heights, a great neighborhood with lots of old brownstones. It was very surreal, I almost felt like I was on the Tram tour at Universal Studios. The place looks like a movie, maybe that's why they've filmed a bunch of them there... plus the Huxtables live there too. |
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The view of Manhattan from my aunt's roof deck...also featuring the Brooklyn Bridge and South Street Seaport Here's a site that has a pre- Sept. 11 view. Sad to see the the changed skyline. (click on "downtown" at the bottom, then click the red circle that says "view from Brooklyn") |
| On my first day in the city we walked from Brooklyn to Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge, and spent the day traipsing through The Village, Soho, Chinatown, Little Italy, and on and on. We went to Washington Square Park to see NYU and an Irish film festival, but we ran into an anti-war rally. We couldn't get passed the hundred thousand people to get to the film festival, but we did bump into the Rev. Al Sharpton. So that was something. |
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| One day we got up at the crack of east coast dawn and went down to Rockerfeller Center, to try that whole Al Roker/Matt Lauer Today show thing, but the outdoor hoopla was cancelled that day, but I decided to say big up to my peeps in H-town anyway. After the Today show stuff, we went on a tour of NBC studios and saw the sets for Saturday Night Live and Conan O'Brien...good stuff. Later that day, we stumbled upon tickets for the Late Show. No David Letterman though, but Bob Dole was there, so that pretty much made up for it. |
Everything we did was cool, but walking across the Brooklyn Bridge was beyond cool. The foot bridge is elevated about a foot or two above the traffic on either side. It's made of boards that are about 1/2 to 1 inch apart, and if you stop and look down you can see the traffic on the bottom level and then the water underneath that. Way cool. (Check out the Woolworth building on the left. Cool.) |
| Some of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty from the side of the Brooklyn Bridge. |
| The Manhattan Bridge as seen from the Brooklyn Bridge. Swell. |
| Brooklyn and it's bridge (and the Manhattan Bridge too) as seen from the South Street Seaport, where we had lunch with the Blandizzi at an Irish pub. Slainte. |
| What a beautiful marvel of engineering. I dig this one, very Ansel Adams. Cool. |