My son's fiance has relocated closer to us so we are happy about that---one step at a time. From Atlanta to New York, sounds exciting to me especially when you get an apartment with a spectacular view of the Big Apple across the Hudson River in Weehawken, New Jersey. Even more exciting for her is that she gets to take a ferry every day to go to work. After the two-day visit I had nearly 800 photos and packed in a week's worth of fun into two days. I am not technically good with a camera so my approach is to take so many photos that I am bound to get it right about half of the time. So I have to delete about 400 photos that are beyond my editing skills on the computer.
I think the following photo is where my eye
keeps going to spot where the Twin Towers
had been in the skyline. Sad
Deck in the apartment complex in Weehawken.
This is the deck from where I took the photos of the New York skyline:
This is the view a bit more north of Pier 88 with that building that looks like a sailboat.
I have to find out more about that building:
Next to the apartment complex is the riverside restaurant
Molos with dramatic day and night views:
Fresh fish display at Molos:
Yes, I know they are knock-offs but these bags made a nice souvenir and they were inexpensive compared to most things for sale in New York:
Columbus Circle near Trump's International Hotel:
This girl saw my big lens sticking out of our car window so she posed:
We all enjoyed a Broadway show. We even chatted with the star's grandmother and mother. Loren Lott, star from Broadway revival "Once on this Island" :
Love the people of New York:
Depending on their age the next two boats may have been on duty during the Twin Towers collapse and the miracle jet airliner landing into the Hudson River as geese knocked out two engines.
Keeping in shape in one jump up to the ledge repeatedly in Hoboken:
Beautiful tree in a Hoboken park:
I always liked getting on cruise ships in Manhattan because we were from New Jersey and it enabled us to get to the Caribbean minus the flight to southern ports like Miami. We always sailed by this old train station. Never thought I would get to see it up close:
Sometimes depending on the angle you can not even see the Empire State Building because the view of it is blocked by taller and newer buildings. I am bewildered that this angle leaves the Empire State Building looking quite lonely. It is just a bit of a puzzle as to how this happens.
I know Hoboken has a long history alongside of New York City and it is quite a desirable place to live if you work in New York. I saw very few abandoned buildings or eyesores. It seems most of the real estate is lovingly cared for.
Hoboken's favorite son: singer Frank Sinatra:
| Verrazano-Narrows Bridge | |
|---|---|
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The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, looking west toward Staten Island
| |
| Coordinates | 40°36′23″N 74°02′44″W |
| Carries | 13 lanes of  I-278(7 lanes on upper level: 6 fixed-direction, 1 reversible HOV lane; 6 lanes on lower level) |
| Crosses | The Narrows |
| Locale | New York City (Staten Island–Brooklyn), New York, U.S. |
| Other name(s) | Verrazano Narrows Bridge Verrazano Bridge Narrows Bridge |
| Maintained by | MTA Bridges and Tunnels |
| Characteristics | |
| Total length | 13,700 ft (4,176 m) |
| Width | 103 ft (31 m) |
| Height | 649.68 ft (198 m) |
| Longest span | 4,260 ft (1,298 m) |
| Clearance above | 15 ft (4.57 m) (upper level) 14.4 ft (4.39 m) (lower level) |
| Clearance below | 228 ft (69.5 m) at mean high water |
| History | |
| Designer | Othmar Ammann |
| Construction start | August 13, 1959 |
| Opened | November 21, 1964 (upper level) June 28, 1969 (lower level) |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | 202,523 (2016)[1] |
| Toll | As of March 19, 2017: $11.52 (New York E-ZPass users outside Staten Island) $5.50 (Staten Island residents) $17.00 (all others; billed by mail) |
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (also referred to as the Verrazano Bridge and formerly the Narrows Bridge) is a double-decked suspension bridge that connects the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn and is named for Giovanni da Verrazzano. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed Upper New York Bay with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The bridge carries thirteen lanes of Interstate 278, with seven lanes on the upper level and six on the lower level. In 1524, da Verrazzano became the first documented European explorer to enter New York Harbor and the Hudson River. Because of a naming error, the bridge's name is spelled with only one "z", despite the explorer's name having two "z"s.[2]
Engineer David B. Steinman first proposed a bridge across the Narrows in 1927. Subsequent proposals of vehicular crossings across the Narrows were deferred over the next twenty years. A 1920s attempt to build a rail tunnel across the Narrows was aborted, as was another 1930s plan for vehicular tubes underneath the Narrows. Discussion of a tunnel resurfaced in the mid-1930s and early 1940s, but were again denied. In the late 1940s, urban planner Robert Moses championed a bridge across the Narrows as a way to connect Staten Island with the rest of the city. Various issues delayed the start of construction until 1959. The bridge opened on November 21, 1964, and a second deck beneath the existing span was opened in June 1969.
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge has a central span of 4,260 feet (1,298 m). It was the longest suspension bridge in the world from 1964 until it was surpassed by the Humber Bridge in the United Kingdom in 1981.
