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1. ESBVW_031007_001_STITCH.JPG: Facing north. Central Park is seen on the left. The East River is seen above the Met Life building. The Chrysler building is to the right of it.
2. ESBVW_031007_004_STITCH.JPG: Facing south. The Hudson River and New Jersey is on the right. The East River is on the left. The Flatiron building is near the middle in the bottom of the picture. The Wall Street skyscrapers are in the distance. The Statue of Liberty can be seen sticking up on the island just to the right of the skyscrapers. Ellis Island is the one in front and to the right of that. The Brooklyn Bridge is the bridge on the far left.
3. ESBVW_031007_008.JPG: Facing north. In the center is the Chrysler Building. When it was built in 1930, it was the world's tallest building and the first one taller than the Eiffel Tower. Built: 1930. Height: 77 stories, 1046 feet. The ugly black block to the right of it is the Trump World Tower. It's the world's tallest residential building. Built: 2001. Height: 72 stories, 881 feet. Between the two of them and just above is LaGuardia (LGA) Airport. Between the two and below, the black pointed structure is the 100 UN Plaza Apts building. Built: 1988. Height: 51 stories. The bridge across the East River is the Queensboro (52nd Street) Bridge. Built: 1909. It goes from Manhattan to Queens.
4. ESBVW_031007_010.JPG: Facing east. Across the East River, you'll see a river called Newtown Creek. On the left of it is Queens. On the right of it is Brooklyn. The railroad tracks just to the left of Newtown Creek are the Long Island Rail Road Yards. The odd-looking brown building in the middle is 3 Park Avenue. It has a high school in it. Built: 1976. Height: 42 stories. The flat building on the water just to the right of the middle of the photo is NYU-Bellevue Medical Center. Built: 1930.
5. ESBVW_031007_014.JPG: Facing north. The green area is Central Park. The pond is called the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. Harlem's on the other side of it. The GE building used to be the RCA Building. It's where the NBC studios are based. Built: 1933. Height: 70 stories, 850 feet. The black and white building to the right of it is 9 West 57th Street. Built: 1972. Height: 50 stories. To the right of that is 712 Fifth Avenue. Built: 1990. Height: 52 stories. If you go above 712 Fifth Avenue, past the park, you'll see a flat long structure. That's Yankee Stadium. Between 9 West 57th Street and 712 Fifth Avenue, you'll see a building within Central Park. That's the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Below and between 9 West 57th Street and 712 Fifth Avenue is the International Building on 45 Rockefeller Plaza. We're in the heart of Rockefeller Center here. The statue of Atlas, which stands outside of St Patrick's Cathedral, is in front of this building.
6. ESBVW_031007_025.JPG: Facing north. The main road which cuts across the bottom left is Fifth Avenue. The first building to the right of Fifth Avenue is 425 Fifth Avenue. You'll see it during the night time with two light beams coming straight up from it. Built: 2003. Height: 67 stories.
7. ESBVW_031007_042.JPG: Facing northeast. The Met Life Building (originally, the Pan Am Building) dominates this view. It's said to be the New York building that New Yorkers like the least. Built: 1961. Height: 58 stories. The sloped-roof building above and to the left of it is Citicorp Center. Built: 1978. Height: 59 stories. The short building to the left of Met Life is the Helmsley Building. Two buildings to the left of the Helmsley Building is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The bridge to the right of Citicorp Center is the Triborough Bridge. A smaller bridge just beyond that is the Hell Gate Railroad Bridge (Amtrak). On the right is the Chrysler Building.
8. ESBVW_031007_045.JPG: Facing north. The park is Bryant Park. The neat looking gold and black building is the Bryant Park Hotel. Built: 1924. The building right in front of it is the Tommy Hilfinger. Height: 12 stories. Note the writing in front and to the right -- 21 W 38th Street. The street on the far left is Sixth Avenue, also called the Avenue of the Americas. Note that all of the buildings have water towers. This is needed for fire suppression.
9. ESBVW_031007_051.JPG: Facing northwest. The Verizon Building is more or less in the center of the picture. It used to be Bell Atlantic and the NYNEX New York Telephone. Built: 1970. To the right of it is Bryant Park. The black and white dot building above and to the left of it is the Millennium Broadway Hotel. The odd-looking roof above and to the left of that is the Bertelsmann (BMG) Broadway. Built: 1986. Height: 44 stories. To the left of BMG are three interesting-looking roofs. On the far left is 7 Times Square. It's expected to be finished next year. In the middle (with the jagged roof) is 1 Astor Place. Built: 1985. On the right is a building labeled "4 Times Square". The building partially obscured by the new building is Ernst & Young. Built: 2002. Height: 37 stories. The point on top of 1 Astor Place is Worldwide Plaza Offices. Built: 1988. Height: 49 stories. Across the Hudson River is New Jersey.
10. ESBVW_031007_052.JPG: Facing west. The big black block is 1 Penn Plaza. Built: 1972. Height: 55 stories. The lines by the river to the left of that are the Long Island Rail Road West Side Storage Yard. The big building facing us in front and to the left is Two Penn Plaza. Penn Station is located below it. Built: 1968. Height: 31 stories. This big office complex replaced the late, great Penn Station. The round structure behind Two Penn Plaza is Madison Square Garden. It's the home of the NY Knicks, Liberty, and Ranger teams as well as Barnum & Bailey. Behind that is the Farley Building General Post Office. To the right of 1 Penn Plaza, the interesting shape on the Hudson River is the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Designed by IM Pei. Built: 1986. On the New Jersey shore, you'll see a brown building to the right of center. Somewhere by the docks there, Aaron Burr fatally wounded Alexander Hamilton in 1804.
11. ESBVW_031007_054.JPG: Facing west. This is the Macy's Department Store. It's considered the world's largest. Built: 1921-31.
12. ESBVW_031007_059.JPG: Facing southwest
13. ESBVW_031007_060.JPG: Facing southwest. If you spot Madison Square Garden and then, in front of it, Two Penn Plaza. The building in front and to the right of that is the 2200-room Pennsylvania Hotel (Statler Hilton, Penta). The hotel still has the same telephone number made famous by Glenn Miller, Pennsylvania 6-5000. Built: 1918. Height: 30 stories. The white balloon on the Hudson River is Basketball City. The fence on the river on the far left is a golf driving range.
14. ESBVW_031007_061.JPG: Facing northwest. The circular driveway in the middle is the ramp to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. This puts you in the Fashion District.
15. ESBVW_031007_067.JPG: Facing west. On the water, you see a Carnival Cruise Liner. To the left of it is another ship. The gray ship to the left of that is the aircraft carrier Intrepid which is part of a Sea-Air-Space Museum.
16. ESBVW_031007_072.JPG: Facing south. This is downtown Manhattan and the Financial District. In the front and left, you'll see the Flatiron Building. Built: 1902. Height: 21 stories. The major road on the right of the Flatiron Building is Fifth Avenue. On the other side is Broadway. The bridge on the horizon is the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Considered the world's longest suspension bridge. Built: 1964. There's a gap in the skyscrapers on the right where the World Trade Center used to be. The World Finance Center are the buildings just to the right of the gap. The white step building on the right is 101 Barclay. The skyscrapers on the far right are the Tribeca Point Apts. If you look above and to the right of the skyscrapers, you'll see the Statue of Liberty. The land directly above the Statue of Liberty is Staten Island. In front and to the right of the Statue of Liberty is Ellis Island. The spit of land that comes out from New Jersey to the right and front of Ellis Island is the Jersey Central RR Terminal.
17. ESBVW_031007_078.JPG: Facing south. Flatiron Building.
18. ESBVW_031007_083.JPG: Facing south. World Financial Center on the left. The shorter similar-looking buildings in front are the Independence Plaza Apts. The longer flat-topped building to the right of them is Smith Barney. To the right of that are the Tribeca Point Apts. In the Hudson River are the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and then the Jersey Central RR Terminal.
19. ESBVW_031007_119.JPG: Facing east. The flat building on the East River that faces us is the UN Secretariat. Built: 1952. Height: 39 stories.
20. ESBVW_031007_121.JPG: Facing east. The smoke stacks are the Con Edison Waterside Electricity Generating Plant. The pancake building to the right of that are the Corinthian Apartments. Built: 1988. Height: 57 stories. The park is St Vartan's (St Gabriel's) Park.
21. ESBVW_031007_161.JPG: Facing north. The steeple in the middle is St Patrick's Cathedral. Built: 1878. Designed by James Renwick Jr.
22. ESBVW_031007_172.JPG: Facing northwest. To the left of the Verizon sign, the Hershey's sign is part of Times Square.
23. ESBVW_031007_228.JPG: Facing southeast. This area of town is called the Gashouse District. The smokestacks are the Con Ed 14th Street Power Plant. The bridge to the right of that is the Williamsburg Bridge. Built: 1903. The road running along the East River is FDR (East River) Drive. Back when it was built, the director of public roadways in New York thought all rivers should have roads running along them which is why there are no riverfront parks on this side of Manhattan.
24. ESBVW_031007_232.JPG: Facing west. The river in the distance is the Hackensack River. The road which runs across the river is the New Jersey Turnpike, I-95.
25. ESBVW_031007_234.JPG: Facing west. The ramp that disappears into the hill is the ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel.
26. ESBVW_031007_249.JPG: Facing west. Aaron Burr fatally wounded Alexander Hamilton where the boats are in the middle of the picture in 1804.
27. ESBVW_031007_273.JPG: Facing southeast. The building with the gold peak is the New York Life Insurance Company. Height: 33 stories. Built: 1928. The black building reflecting it is Merchandise Mart. Height: 42 stories. Built: 1972. The building with the other gold top is the Madison Belvedere Apts. Height: 50 stories. Built: 1999.
28. ESBVW_031007_323.JPG: Facing west. This area of New Jersey is called the Meadowlands. The dull grey stadium in the middle in the distance is Giants Stadium. The white stadium to the right of it is Brendan Byrne Arena.
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2003 photos: Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year. Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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