Photos of USA '06

the photos at new york

finally finished uploading the photos of my new york trip. its even longer than the italian festival market photoshoot posted last week. sorry bout the delay and enjoy the photos.

on the bus on the way to new york. on my right, the river that separates pennsylvania and new jersey.

and on my left, the stadium where the philadelphia baseball team plays.

this is the line of people who were lining up to get a ticket to visit the ellis island where the statue of liberty is located.

this is me joining the line. moments later, an announcement was made that there were no more time passes to be issued for the day. time passes are required if you want to enter and go to the top of the statue of liberty. they were still selling tickets though to go to the island for those who wanted to get closer to the island. but the 1.5 hour wait just to get on the island, plus the fact that is was already 2pm then and the island closed at 5pm, i decided to come back another time to explore that place and statue.

so off i went to take photos of the park / ferry terminal. the park is commonly known as battery park and is located at the southern tip of manhattan which is one of the 5 islands making up new york and also the place where a lot of monuments such as the financial district is found.

the park is located ust on the perimeter of the financial district which provides for this beautiful backdrop. i hear that donald trump owns at least one of these buildings but wasnt too sure which one as i couldn't see his name on any of them from where i was.

the statue which i will have to say so long for now but dun miss me too much, i'll be back.

beautiful girl. beautiful background. the perfect picture.

my turn to get in on the picture. cant say the effects were the same though :P

you know a girl loves flowers when she wants to make sure the picture she's in has flowers in the backdrop.

another photo of your truly in front of walls with names of fallen US soldiers.

just bcecause i wasnt goin to get on the boat to explore ellis island for that day doesnt mean i couldnt get close to the statue right?

now who says America and Arabs cant live in peace?

one of the many ships that offered tours around the ellis island but not stoppin on the island itself. not worth in my opinion as i wanted to get on the island and into and on top of the statue. that last part didnt sound right though.

even at 3pm, there was still a long line of people lining up for tickets to get onto ellis island. didn't they hear the announcement that there were no more time passes issued?

inside castle clinton (i aint kidding, check the sign) is where the tickets to ellis island / time passes to the statue of liberty were issued.

there were many such stalls selling everything from t-shirts to caps with the words NY on it. note to those going there: you can actually get the items much cheaper in the city centre itself. like half price cheaper.

one of several monuments that were found in the park.

guess what that hut in the middle is. a toilet? that's what i thought so too. but its just an empty hut.

i wasn't kidding when i said the park was big. and really nice too.

picture of the wall with the names on the wall. this time, without me in front of it. pretty good photoshopping skills eh?

i want one of those. wonder how much it would cost here in the US?

the last time i saw a ship that was this crowded was in china.

another one of several monuments found in the park. one of the nicer ones in my opinion.

for those of you curious as to what the text on the monument says.

another couple shot in front of the monument. pretty nice one too i must add.

you know a girl loves her flowers when you ask her if she wants to take any more photos before you leave the place and she looks for the nearest flower. actually i think this shot looks really sweet.

and the last picture i took in NY before i left for the day. well there will definitely be more pictures of other parts of new york next time i can promise you that. just need to get there earlier.

posted by Tariq @ 1:28 PM