Thursday 11 September 2014

Liberty, Ellis, Brooklyn

First stop today was the Statue of Liberty.

Approaching on the ferry
Liberty watches over Manhattan & Brooklyn

Give us your huddled masses
We enjoyed a great ice cream here
Next stop was Ellis Island through which millions of immigrants to USA were processed until 1924.

Forecourt to the Processing Centre
In sight of Miss Liberty
The Museum
Registration Hall
Immigrants
I bet she went far
Next we went across to Brooklyn to walk the 1.3 mile across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan. But first lunch.

'All About Food', Henry Street, Brooklyn Heights
Lunch
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge
Reaching Manhattan
City Hall (I think?)
Buskers
Finally, the subway for the #6 line home

8 comments:

  1. What a huge lunch. The ferry looks overcrowded. How busy it must be there.

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    1. Andrew, all meals here are huge and every ferry to the Statue came in fully loaded.

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  2. Good to see they have painted the Brooklyn Bridge - was a rust bucket when I walked accross in 2011. And the same buskers at the end of it. The Yanks do eat big - we found one meal could be shared between the two of us most times.

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    1. Allan, the buskers did say they have been performing there a long time and I agree entirely about the food quantities.

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  3. Did you manage to walk up to the crown in teh statue of Liberty, Victor?

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    1. Allan, signage indicated there was no public access to the crown.

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  4. Wow, portions of meals are huge So Americans are fat. I love the yellow cabs. My ancestors also entered the Ellis Island.

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