More New York

Had another day yesterday around New York. The sixth Harry Potter film commences on the 15th of July and there are giant billboards around everywhere promoting it.

I definitely recommend the subway as the best way to get around. It isn’t as user friendly as the Tube in London, but it is pretty easy to pick up. A lot larger – close to 400 stations. You can get an all day pass for $8 which is worth it as each individual trip is $2.

A lot of people don’t realise the Statue of Liberty has its own island – Liberty Island of course. You see it as you get closer to it. There is only one ferry service out to it – from NY and NJ.

And a close up on land of the most famous statue in the world.

I also went to the “top of the Rock”, the Rock being the Rockefeller Centre. This is a huge complex. If you have to choose between this and the Empire State Building I would go for this one – the queues are way way shorter, and the view even better in my opinion.

This shot shows the Empire State Building and Downtown behind it.

This is the great shot from the Top of the Rock. Central Park and Uptown. Only from up here do you get some idea of how absolutely huge Central Park is. – close to 850 acres.

Thank God they put the land aside for the park – would hate to live here without it.One report estimates the value of the land, if developed as US$528 billion!

And this is a view of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park. It holds over one billion gallons of water.