New York City

New York's Empire State - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Getting there early in the morning at opening time saves queuing to get to the observatory on the 86th floor - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The inspiration for the designs on the Chrysler Building was a car radiator grille - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The veteran aircraft carrier USS INTREPID (left) is now a museum with a fabulous collection of aircraft - a Douglas Skyhawk (right) stowed below decks - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The UK Navy is represented by a Supermarine Scimitar (left);  the British Airways Concorde (right) is G-BOAD and was photographed from INTREPID- PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The Lockheed SR71 Blackbird (left) is still the fastest aircraft ever operated by any air force;  an AV8A (right) developed from the British Harrier - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

USS INTREPID seen from a cruise boat operated by the Circle Line from their adjacent jetty - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

New York - Lower Manhattan (left);  New Jersey - Hoboken (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The Statue of Liberty (left) and Ellis Island (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Although cruise boats go in closer, equally dramatic views can be obtained from the free Staten Island Ferry - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Brooklyn Bridge (left) and Manhattan Bridge (right) both viewed from a cruise boat - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

This is about the limit for the so-called Half Island Cruise - the massive black Trump Tower and the United Nations Building masking the wedge shaped top of the Citicorps Building (left); Empire State (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

An Empire State License plate (left);  Metropolitan Life Insurance Company building (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Fire House in West 31st Street - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Ladder Engine 24 (left);  leaving the Fire House (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Pets' Hotel (left);  racked parking lot (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Lion keeps watch outside the New York Public Library (left);  Macy's (right) - the world's largest department store - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Madison Square Garden (left) sitsrather inconspicuously next door to Penn Station on Seventh Avenue;  garbage truck (right) leaving Seventh Avenue - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Atlas on Fifth Avenue and national flags at the Rockefeller Center - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

City Hall (left) Manhattan Bridge with the Williamsburg Bridge beyond viewed from the Brooklyn Bridge (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Brooklyn Bridge - cycle path on the left and foot path on the right - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Brooklyn Bridge looking towards Brooklyn (left) and towards Manhattan (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

On a clear day, the Empire State can be seen framed in the pier of the Manhattan Bridge (left);  Brooklyn Bridge (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Colourful buildings.  The mural on the right is floodlit at night - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Times square (left);  Midtown (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Mail boxes and street vendor - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

The Monument to Ulysses S Grant completed in 1897 (left);  golden statue in honour of General William Tecumseh Sherman in Grand Army Plaza (above) at the southern end of Central Park

Dog walker and carriages - Central Park - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Bow Bridge (left);  San Remo Apartments (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Bow Bridge - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Alice in Wonderland (left);  Robert Burns (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Bethesda Fountain and Boating Pond - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Only the rocks in Central Park are natural;  everything else has been imported and landscaped - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Dakota Mansions in West 72nd Street and one time home of John Lennon (left);  commemorative mosaic (above) in nearby Strawberry fields, Central Park

Outside the United States the Tram would be called the Cable Car.  Whatever it is called. it gives spectacular views as it soars out over the East River - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

Chinatown, New York City - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow

USA

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