OHNY - views from... nice, nice places

[Gulcrapek]

Best.

Day.

Ever.

The plan was to go to two places today, maybe three. It ended up as four, each more enjoyable than the last..

I absolutely positively love New York.

Soldiers and Sailors Arch, Grand Army Plaza

The Arch

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(little people up top)
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Detail
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The Views

Prospect Park
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Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch
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Statue
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Lower Manhattan & Brooklyn Heights skylines
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Midtown
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Williamsburgh Savings Bank and Atlantic Terminal, at an angle. 10 Plaza St East at right
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NYC 2012, One Liberty Plaza

(not really any photos of the actual setup...)

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Southwest Lower Manhattan
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One Wall Street
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Deutsche Bank
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?
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Marine Midland, 40 Wall, Equitable
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40 Wall
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A little Metrotech between buildings
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Reflection of a Russian viewingmate
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Silhouetted room (it was actually bright)
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The Solaire (20 River Terrace), Battery Park City

The Views

Jersey City (Goldman Sachs
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Jersey City (Newport)
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East
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North
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ESB
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3 WFC
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Setback garden
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My dream apartment. 20E
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The father in 20A (I think)
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Sigh... if only.

Williamsburgh Savings Bank - I took a photo before they told me I couldn't. Therefore I have one photo, and since they have my name and address I'll keep it for moi only. Not a great picture anyway, came out very dark. The inside of the banking room is stunning, beautiful in every way. Huge columns, arches, 63 foot mosaic tile ceiling, marble floors, giant mural of 1928 Brooklyn on one wall, second floor balcony with gigantic windows.

Random shots

Woolworth
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7 WTC
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WTC PATH entrance
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Atlantic Terminal from Dean St
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Entrance under restoration
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...and so ends a journey.

[emmeka]

amazing pics!!! Wow I have to go to all those places! ecept for liberty plaza when you were downtown, its an important building, they'd probably not even let me in the lobby.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Great photos! You look like the King and his Realm.
I like that shot of the Library, and 40 Wall. Whose the guy on the horse?

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I was at City Hall and Tweed Courthouse. A great tour. I wish I could share photos, but no photography was allowed. I was really irked, especially since I had to get on the longer security line because the little camera case was considered a bag.

Exterior shots of the courthouse:
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Websites with some info. There are small photos of the rotunda on the 2nd site, but they don't give you any sense of the scale. We entered through the back (south), a tunnel with brick arches that opens up into the octagonal rotunda, 80 ft to the skylight. The skylight glass is etched.
http://home.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/building/man_tweed.html
http://www.lowermanhattan.info/news/landmark_tweed_courthouse_has_65546.asp

One of the fraudulent contracts was for detail carpentry, but the interior is mostly cast iron. The foundry was owned by Boss Tweed.

Leopold Eidlitz used natural materials in the south wing. One of the rooms has medieval gothic vaults. The columns along the walls are sandstone, the others are polished red marble. All the capitals are carved sandstone which appear to be identical, but have subtle differences.

City Hall interior is still undergoing renovations. We were told the mayor has an extensive network of contributors. The rotunda is completely restored, and unlike the exterior, which was replaced, the interior marble is original. The Governors Room with its two wings, is also restored. All the furniture is original, including George Washington's writing desk - which was located at Bellview Hospital (I forget the date) :)
http://home.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/building/man_cityhall.html

Tours of both buildings are conducted on alternate Fridays. Call 311.

[Gulcrapek]

I wanted to go to Tweed but it was a lower priority. Someone at NYC2012 told us that it had 20,000 visitors yesterday...

[JMGarcia]

We went through City Hall and the Tweed but there wasn't any issue with either my camera or one of my friend's napsack. Strange.

Even though the wait was a bit long I thought it was worth it.

[ZippyTheChimp]

You took photos? :shock:

I had no trouble with the camera other than it had to go through the detector (I removed the card) - but no photography inside.

[yanni111]

thanks alot for posting those pics, especially the views from the arch and liberty1. Aerial views like that make me wish i was spiderman swinging through the canyons!!!

[cityskyscrapers]

I mostly like the views from the Arch and the Manhattan apartment. thanks for sharing these pics with us!

[TLOZ Link5]

How'd you get allowed into that Solaire apartment?

[Gulcrapek]

There were tours of the building going showing off its environmentally friendly stuff like wall materials, rooftop garden, water filtration plant etc. There was also a model apartment open on floor 19, and the entire 20th floor save one apartment was open.