The following day we started out by checking out Central Park and the surrounding area. Central Park is gigantic so we only walked through the southern bit of it. One of the most awesome aspects of NYC is the incredible subway system. Coming from Toronto which probably has the largest subway system in Canada, there is simply no comparison. Obviously there are far more people who live in and around Manhattan but the sheer size is really something to be envied. And the greatest part about it is that it runs 24 hours a day, so you never have to worry about missing your ride or taking a cab home, and to boot it is even cheaper than the paltry Toronto system.
After Central Park we headed down to the World Trade Center site. It didn't really look like much, sort of like a huge construction site. It was still a pretty impressive place to be and I'm sure even more so when they finish the new towers. The Statue of Liberty is just off the south shore of Manhattan so we headed down there afterwards. We were starving and of course freezing so we decided not to take the ferry to the statue but I grabbed a few shots from the shore.
We took a subway to little Italy and grabbed some dinner then ventured over to see the Brooklyn Bridge. It was pretty cool, but it's pretty annoying when the sun sets at 5 oclock and you're seeing everything at night. I still dislike night shots but I managed the best that I could.
By this point it was almost midnight so we went back to midtown to see the Rockefeller centre and Radio City Music Hall. It's funny how true is it that things seems bigger on TV. The skating rink is actually much smaller than a regular hockey rink but all of the buildings are still as huge as you imagine.
All in all New York is an awesome place to visit and ideally you could live there for a few months to really soak it in but at the very least I would suggest two weeks to see everything...in the summer.
