My downtown New York City photos - Brooklyn Bridge, Wall Street, Chinatown, etc.

[Greenclay]

Awesome photos Greenclay.  I have been to NYC about 3 times in the last 3 months.  You capture it beautifully.  I laughed when I saw the food cart.  Had my friend looking everywhere for the nut cart. HA love those hot cashews from the Nuts for Nuts cart!

Thank you!

Ah, yes - you can usually see a "Nuts for Nuts" cart near City Hall, and around town, including Broadway in the theater district.

There's a recent competitor for "The Frying Dutchman" food truck - "GorillaCheese NY."  I don't even want to find out what they're selling.   

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[Greenclay]

These photos were taken from the Newport Riverfront walkway between Hoboken and Jersey City.


Views of the Empire State Building.  (It's the tallest building in the first two pictures.)




Updated waterfront views of the Freedom Tower.


     

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[Dutch]

Great update. Thank you.

I can't help but wonder about the history of those old pilings in the foreground.

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[Greenclay]

Waiting for the ferry... I don't think he knows that you have to buy a ticket or you can't get on the boat.

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[dexter_]

great pics. Thanks for sharing!
Go to New York City would be a dream come true!

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[Greenclay]

This ketchup bottle is in a little park near City Hall.  I never heard of "Daddies Ketchup" before.
Can you imagine what the hamburgers look like?



The Freedom Tower has gotten much bigger.



Here's The Empire State Building, seen from Hoboken, New Jersey.



  <= Maybe this is how they got the giant ketchup bottle into the park.
 
There have been a lot of sailboats in the harbor since it has been so @%@* hot lately.

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[Dutch]

Thanks for the pics.
I love the way all the New Yorkers go about their business like THE GIANT
KETCHUP BOTTLE isn't even there.

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[Greenclay]

Thanks for the pics.
I love the way all the New Yorkers go about their business like THE GIANT
KETCHUP BOTTLE isn't even there.

That's precisely the point.  You got it.  Look at it this way:
Godzilla rampaging toward the Brooklyn Bridge  might raise some eyebrows.  A giant ketchup bottle by a fountain in a park?  Not so much.   

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[LLKK5]

Great pics , I love the seagull and the ketchup, lol

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[Greenclay]

Here are some pictures from the Two Bridges area of the East River.  The Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge are only about 3/4 mile (1.2 kilometers) apart.  The Brooklyn Bridge is the one closer to the pier and the heliport.  The Manhattan Bridge is farther up the river.

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[Greenclay]

One morning when I got off the ferry at Wall Street, a fellow passenger pointed out the sun just peeking out from under the bridge.  I ran back to the end of the pier and managed to take several photos of the sun's orange disk rising, about every 15 seconds or so.  I've never had that kind of chance before.



I think this bird was warning me to stay away from his bridge.



We were walking back to the office after lunch in Chinatown when we heard music coming from the park.  We found these musicians were creating the music.



This is the Manhattan Bridge, the next bridge on the East River after the Brooklyn Bridge.



This is the area between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge.  It's known, of course, as the Two Bridges area.



This building is a little past the Manhattan Bridge, on the Brooklyn side of the river.



The next bridge after the Manhattan Bridge is the Williamsburg Bridge.  I really like the architectural details of the steel base and the bridge itself.

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[LLKK5]

I love the sunset photos!!!!

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[Dutch]

Didn't know you posted the new ones. 

Great shots of the bridges. And the musicians. I'm guessing heavy metal tunes. AC/DC cover band maybe?

Chicago has many interesting drawbridges which I never appreciated or photographed when I lived there.

(Some pretty ambitious graffiti on that Domino Sugar building.)

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[MichaelaH]

Amazing! I love NY

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[Greenclay]

Look!  It's a blimp parade!

(Note:  "blimp" = "Luftschiff", "Dirigibile", "Dirigeable", "Дирижабль")

I didn't know about this until a couple of weeks after it happened, but on September 6, 2012 there was a parade of blimps that went from the Statue of Liberty to the George Washington Bridge. 

These two pictures were taken by a friend, from the 38th floor of a building that overlooks the East River.  She happened to look out the window, and said, "Look at that!"  The blimps were from MetLife, DirecTV, Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey, and Hood Ice Cream.  You don't see that every day - even in New York. 


     

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