Jamie and Kurt Photos!: New York City, Part 1

Four days. 291 pictures. New York City...

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Here we are at the hotel. Let the NYC adventure begin!

Walk out of the hotel front door, turn right and walk about a half a block, and turn right for this view of Times Square:

It was definitely worth staying so close to Times Square.

Legally Blonde the musical? Apparently. Also, the McDonald's we visited - with a $2 "Dollar Menu!"

Here we are on our last night - Times Square at night is amazing.

Next, we jumped on our double-decker buses (which I forgot to photograph!) and headed up the Empire State Building. After 9/11 it's now the tallest building in New York, and only #2 in the U.S. to the Sears Tower in Chicago.

Yup - pretty big.

Here is the view from the 86th floor. This is "uptown," and you can see a famous building!

This is all the closer we got to the Chrysler building.

Here is a view of "downtown" Manhattan. The twin towers would have been toward the right of the mass of buildings down there. On the bottom left you can see the gold roof of the New York Life building.

Also in uptown, you can see the "Flatiron" building. Some consider it the first skyscraper when it was the first large building to be built with a steel frame around the turn of the 20th century. People thought that it was impossible for a building to stand and be so narrow.

Next, we hopped back on the bus tour and stopped to get a shot of the Brooklyn Bridge. I like bridges.

Next, the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Apparently a different nation's flag flies along the Star and Stripes when a foreign head of state is staying there.

Next comes the home of The Donald: Trump Tower.

The Trump Tower is almost right across the street from the U.N.

There is a flag for each U.N. Member nation - from A to Z.

Next, we hopped off the bus and walked down to ground zero. Although a lot of construction is going on, no official memorial exists yet.

In the background you can see a glass skyscraper, the first of the World Trade Center Complex to be rebuilt after 9/11. There is a train station finished now in the center of the complex, and construction of the Freedom Tower should start soon.