8. + 9. New York + Rückflug

Sunday, 13.07.2008 Jamaica Bay

Going on to "Jamaica Bay" - in the southeast of Brooklyn - opposite to John F. Kennedy Airport

View to Manhattan - coming from Northeast

Triborough-Bridge, leading to Brooklyn near La Guardia Airports

A Pond at Jamaica Bay with Watching-Hut ....

...here you can find Great Egrets (Silberreiher)....

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... "Yellow-crowned Night Heron" (Krabbenreiher) (juv.)

same - adult

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It´s also worth to visit the Park !!!

Ospreys - nesting

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Manhattan

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also some trees are there

Brown Thrasher (Rot(e)(-rücken) Spottdrossel)

Then we drove to New Jersey. During the night we stayed at "Turkey Swamp Campground" south of Freehold!

Eastern Kingbird (Schieferrücken Königstyrann)

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White Tailed Deer (Weißwedelhirsch)

Swamp

that will become a house

Monday, 14.07.2008 - Thursday, 17.07.2008 New York

Now visiting New York!!!!

On a map the Central Park looks not as big as in reality - but it´s giant!!!!

"Our" Hotel "Astor on the Park" at the northwest-side of the Central Park

View from our Hotel over the Park and to Manhattan - The highest Building is the Empire State Building

The Park is really nice

Sqirrel

Common Grackle

"Central Park Twin Towers" near the "Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis - Reservoir"

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what´s that: ????

Guggenheim Museum - not enough time to visit also!

But the "Metropolitan Museum of Art" we visited (later)

Skyscraper at the southeast-Corner of the Central Park

Stretch-Limousine - you often can see

another skyscraper

Plaza Hotel Southeast Corner of Central Park

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Standing in a queue: Apple Store

very expensive

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"Abercrombie & Fitch Store: Also queues

Trump Tower

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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Balzac from Auguste Rodin

Moonbird from Miro

view to the Foyer

Only Highlights you can find here!!!

Van Gogh: Portrait Joseph Roulin

Gauguin: The seed of the Areoi

Henri Rousseau: The sleeping Gypsy

Paul Cézann: Still Life with Apples

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

Picasso - Demoiselles d´Avignon

Picasso: Boy Leading a Horse

Fernand Leger: Exit the Baletts Russes

Picasso

Gino Severini: Armored Train in Action

Umberto Boccioni: Dynamism of a Soccer Player

Boccioni: The Laugh

Kandinsky´s

Kandinsky

Kandinsky

August Macke: Lady in a Park

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

Giorgio de Chirico

Malevich

Monet

Monet

Piet Mondrian

Mondrian

Oskar Schlemmer: Bauhaus Stairway

Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann: Self Portrait

Otto Dix

George Grosz

Frieda Kahlo

Rene Magritte

Paul Klee

Jean Dubuffet

Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Yves Klein

Tom Wesselmann

Robert Morris

Louise Bourgeois: Little Girl

Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys: Eurasia Sibirian Symphonie 1963

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View through the Jalousie

At Rockefeller Center

We want on the top of the Rock

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Atlas

Foyer

that´s a well known poster....

in the elevator

on Top!

What a view - Central Park.......

...... Hudson......

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Crysler - Building

Impressive Buildings......

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Verrazano Narrows Bridge: from southern Brooklyn to Staten Island

Liberty Island and Statue of Liberty (behind left) and Ellis Island (right before)

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Party

St. Patrick´s Cathedrale

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At the other side of Hudson is the State New Jersey

Rockefeller Center

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Prometheus - Skulptur

Streets of Manhattan .....

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Crysler - Building

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Empire State Building

Paramount at Times Square

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Times Square

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View at night from our Hotel

far behind: The Crysler Building

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Empire State Building

Sunrise

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Manhattan

Crysler...

Streetview

Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine

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no photos inside

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....at day

crowds of people

Times Square

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Macys

here you can find everything ....

....old Moving Stairs

...with such busses you can go on Sight - seeing - Tours..........

....so we do!

Empire State Building

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southern Manhattan

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Ground Zero

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A Boat Trip!

View from Boat to Brooklyn - after New York, Los Angeles und Chicago is Brooklyn the fourth-biggest city of America!!!!

Brooklyn Bridge..........

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Waterfall from Eliasson

Ellis - Island

Liberty Island

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Manhattan

Empire State Building

Manhattan

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an old Pier

Museum of Jewish Heritage

going on with the bus

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back at Union Square

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Finally a Night Tour to Brooklyn with the Bus

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Next day!

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...... John Lennon was shot

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Metropolitan Opera

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Central Park

The rooms of the Ritz - Carlton Hotel with it´s windows to the Central Park all have........

....Lenses for Bird - watching!!!!!!

...going on

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....Salamander: The emblem of Francois I

Carnegie Hall

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National Museum of the American Indian - near the Wallstreet

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Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art

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Le Bourgeois de Calais von Rodin

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Back to Manhattan

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Madison Square Garden

Macy´s

Now we want to the Top of the Empire State Building

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.....It needs time!!!

But from above....

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Egyptian

Red-Breasted Geese

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Temple of Dendur

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Carpeaux

Le Bourgeois de Calais von Rodin

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John Singer Sargent

Edward Hopper

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Norman Rockwell

Matisse

Renoir

Degas

Van Gogh

Van Gogh

de Chirico

Modigliani

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Paul Klee

dto.

Max Beckmann

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Kandinsky

Moreau

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Flying back to germany

Offenbach

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Frankfurt

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Soccer - Arena

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