Here's a bunch of random bits of NYC that didn't fit in other posts...
We visited the fire station that was the headquarters in the original
Ghostbusters movie. They don't let anyone inside but they do have some appropriate decorations. A nice lady (and Ghostbusters fan) took our picture!
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| Where ya gonna go? |
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| Closeup of us |
I found a
geocache that was part of a "SATC" series. I didn't realize that meant "Sex and the City" which I have never seen. According to the cache page Samantha moved to this area (the Meatpacking District) in season 3.
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| A geocache is a geocache |
Gay Street is a short thoroughfare, only a block or two, and also has a
geocache. Sheryl Crowe shot a music video here for "A Change Would Do You Good."
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| Gay Street |
Near the theater where we saw
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is Times Square. We walked through looking for lunch options.
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| Times Square, just like the building says |
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| K-Pop Demon Hunters at the square |
56 Leonard Street looks like it was fun for the architect to design but a nightmare for the engineer to build.
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| 56 Leonard Street |
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| Not sure if I would go out on those balconies |
The James Hotel looks like they ran out of money to finish the top. Or maybe there's a rooftop ballroom with an outdoor area?
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| The James hotel |
We saw a lot of parking lots with stacked cars, something we haven't seen anywhere else.
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| Valet service, I hope |
A thirty-foot tall steel tree sculpture adorns a square in the Meatpacking District. It's called
Where Angels Live and was crafted by Charlotte Colbert.
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| Tree=Heaven? |
I was amazed to see a row of houses that resisted the modernization pressures of the big city.
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| From the good old days |
The
Goodnight Moon house was moved to Greenwich Village in 1967 to avoid demolition. It was owned at one point by Margaret Wise Brown (author of
Goodnight Moon). It's still a private residence and defies all the high rises around it.
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| Little house on the corner |
The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin sits just outside Times Square, nestled in among regular buildings.
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| Church of Saint Mary |
Another geocaching discovery is
Jefferson Market Library. Originally it was the local courthouse. It was converted to a library in 1967. It's definitely fancier than any libraries in my area.
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| Jefferson Market Library |
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| Library wall decor inside |
The city has a lot of other library-centered geocaches, so I can't wait to get back and explore more.
On the way home we saw a thirty-foot statue of Our Lady, Queen of Peace, in Newcastle, Delaware. We saw a companion statue by the same artist in California
here. The artist is local to Newcastle and the residents wanted their own statue when they saw how great the California one came out.
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| Our Lady, Queen of Peace |
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