During our visit in Manhattan, we also walked to Ground Zero. Earlier that day, during our helicopter flight, we already saw an aerial view of it.

You can see the construction of the new Freedom Tower as the new building with the blue band around it.

Thanks to Wikipedia for the information about the buildings.

Two panorama’s from Central Park today.

From the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you have a spectacular view across Central Park and the skyline of New York City. The museum, also know as The Met, is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park.

 

From the entrance near Guggenheim Museum, you enter the jogging track of 1.52 mile (2.54 km) around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, also know as the Central Park Reservoir. It covers 106 acres (43 ha) and holds over 1.000.000.000 US gallons of fresh water.

 

Thanks to Wikipedia for the information about the buildings.

I visited several fire stations of FDNY and off course saw the fire trucks and firemen several times in the big city. In my hometown, Maaseik, I’m a volunteer firefighter as well, but probably we don’t have as much calls as they do. Some pictures below of Tower Ladder 13, Battalion 9 and Engine 54.

On the second day we also visited the Statue of Liberty, a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue presents Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom.

The first shot is taken from our Helicopter flight.

And one from behind …

And finally one from the front …

Thanks to Wikipedia for the information about the buildings.

On the second day in the morning, we took of for a nice helicopter flight from Downtown Manhattan Heliport. It lasted 20 minutes, but the experience was fabulous and I would recommend it to everyone. It gives you another view on the great city of New York.

The first picture if framed from the south. In the right bottom corner you can see a part from Governors Island and above it Brooklyn Bridge.

One of the few images I took from New Jersey. The tall building on the left is the Goldman Sachs Tower, which is the tallest building in New Jersey, and the tallest in the United States of any building not in its metropolitan area’s largest city.

Last picture for today is a view on Harlem River with his bridges (from bottom to top), Macombs Dam Bridge, 145th Street Bridge, Madison Avenue Bridge & Park Avenue Bridge.

Thanks to Wikipedia for the information about the buildings.

Part four of New York City and the first landscape photographs. With all those tall buildings, it’s difficult to frame your shots landscape.

But to start, still a portrait picture of the Empire State Building, shot from the street up. The weather was a lot better on the second day.

On the second day we also booked a helicopter flight from Downtown Manhattan Heliport. We were there early and went for a walk to Pier 16 in the East River. From Harbour Lights, you have a spectacular view on Brooklyn Bridge. In the following days I will post pictures from the helicopter flight and from Brooklyn Bridge. Today, you see the opposite view from Harbour Lights, back to Downtown Manhattan Heliport. In front you can see the Wavertree, a historic iron-hulled sailing ship, at the South Street Seaport. On the left you can find the largest building in New York by floor area, located at 55 Water Street. The American International Building on the right in the background is the fifth tallest building in New York City.

Last picture for today is the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. This museum is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It’s designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the second museum opened by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Thanks to Wikipedia for the information about the buildings.

On the first evening in New York City, we went straight up the Rockefeller Center to view the spectacular skyline of NYC by night.

Middle left at the first picture you can see the a bright building with a unique 45 degree angled top, the Citigroup Center. It is one of the ten tallest skyscrapers in New York City located at 53rd street between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue. The also bright building on the right of it is 599 Lexington Avenue. Right of that, with the three black boxes above the lighted windows, is 345 Park Avenue.

Most people will recognize the building below, Empire State Building, an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. The lightning changes very often and we saw a Red/White/Blue in honor of Boys Scouts of America, 100th Anniversary Celebrations and the National Scout Jamboree.

 

The last picture is a streetview with a very slow shutter speed.

Thanks to Wikipedia for the information about the buildings.

You can find a lot of odd building structures in New York and I’ve selected some shots. They all have one thing in common, the outside look is full of glass.

The first one is from the Safra National Bank of New York building located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and between 45th Street West and 46th Street West. The mirror windows give a nice view on the opposite buildings.

Next a detail pictures of the Hearst Tower located between 56th Street West and 57th Street West on Eight Avenue near Columbus Circle. It’s the world headquarters of the Hearst Corporation which publish magazines like Cosmopolitan, Esquire and many others. Two architects, Joseph Urban (Six Story Base, completed in 1928; Tower, completed eight years later) and Norman Foster (New Tower, completed in 2006), worked on it. Hearst Tower was the first building completed after September 11, 2001 and received the 2006 Emporis Skyscraper Award.

The last picture is from One Madison Park, a luxury residential condominium tower located at the junction of Madison Avenue and 23rd Street East. The building was designed by the architectural firm Cetra/Ruddy.

Thanks to Wikipedia for the information about the buildings.

I was on vacation in the States the first half of this month and visited New York, Orlando and Miami. New York impressed me the most with their tall buildings, great parks, nice streets and everything that comes with it. I will post several pictures in the coming weeks and wanted to start with three pictures of the same building, but shot from a different angle. It’s located near Battery Park at 17 State Street and designed by Emery Roth and Sons.

Two pictures I took this year in a Stone Quarry in La Gombe.