tickets to the ferry..
foggy skyline.. the weather was pretty cold too !
Ground Zero
St Paul's Chapel
the WTC memorials inside the Chapel
all the badges from all the fire departments who helped..
A lot of volunteers even slept in that chapel!
Just like in Philadelphia, New Yorkers are quite fond of their bells
this one doesn't even have a crack in it!
Pentagon Memorial
We accidentally ended up on a Romanian Street Festival
With a lot of people, buying fast food and other rubbish
US Customs House, the start of our Downtown walk
our lovely guide ;-)
The statue symbolises European Economy : tired. Come on, theirs is even worse!
Frances Tavern, the place where George Washington hung out, ate pastries and made friends..
Even in the Financial District, buildings are sky high!
Brouwers... jap jap, they know what's good on Stone Street
Stone Street, one of few streets in New York that isn't straight
Our guide, explaining something about the Trump Building, and the race for the highest building in NY
Wall Street, once a street near the water, now a street near all the money
And there we have George Washington again. This guy has statues in all cities we've visited so far!
NY Stock Exchange !
NYPD Blue, past his glory days?
Trinity Church
Inside Trinity Church
The fountains at City Hall
The Wall Street Bull
Look Laurens, we've found another one!
South Street Seaport..
Also known as Pier 17...
With some ships...
some food...
some freaks...
who do crazy stuff...
Very crazy stuff!
WTC Memorial at Battery Park
Lady of Liberty, sadly enough we just missed the last boat..
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge, with two Dutch girls spoiling my picture
Elke is trying to keep here eyes open
But she fails.. twice!
Luckily the guy taking the picture had a lot of patience ;-)
Pier 17, as seen from Brooklyn bridge
the negative trade Balance of the United States
because they keep tearing down all old buildings, they try to keep some of the ruins under the ground...
Chinatown
Not so temporarily advertisement...
No mommy, I didn't buy the bag, I was just showing how awfull American Fashion is...
Empire State Building in the fog...
Times Square
Rockefeller by night (took us quite some time to get a picture without any asians ruining it...
The Hilton! Laurens' hideout for a couple of days
taxi to the ferry
the outside of our taxi
the inside of the cab
the day after, on the way to pick up Laurens
Try and throw a penny (or more) in the glass bubble.. not as easy as it seems !
Short Hills Mall