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 I used to base myself around Times Square when in New York.  Then I branched out to a few other venues.  The Waldorf Astoria, when I still ...

  Different visits to New York have seen the area around the World Trade Center redevelop. Now it incorporates the transport hub known as Th...

  The High Line is quite an attraction, leading along the old train tracks from Chelsea Village up into midtown.  At various places the orig...

One of the well known views in New York on my iPhone. From the Rockefeller Center facing towards the Hudson and with the Statue of Liberty i...

Oh yes, there were red baseball caps on sale on street corners.  The TV channels were mostly polarised. Fox vs MSNBC. Choose your rhetoric. ...

The very first time I ever visited New York, on a stopover from Charlotte, NC back to the UK, we had about 10 hours in the city. We took the...

We were right by the Whitney Museum as well, so it was well worth a visit. It's also a good point from which to pick up the High Line, b...

This time we were staying around Chelsea, an area I once worked close to and rather different from the part of New York that most tourists g...

  These are some clearer shots after the sun had risen. Liberty and Lower Manhattan, from our cabin (aka stateroom) on the liner.

 Well, we finally sighted the Verrazano Bridge, which is the way into the waters around Manhattan. It was about 03:30 in the morning and fro...

Another fun thing were the around 20 plus 'events' scheduled for each morning, and then another 20 for the afternoon and maybe 15 fo...

So we had Roger McGuinn from the Byrds on the crossing and he was only too pleased to tell of his very varied musical career.  Fascinating ...