NYC view - via water taxi

Southport...heading down to the pier to catch the ...
Water taxi - well worth the time - and the best part...we had free tickets.

Brooklyn Bridge (foreground), Manhattan Bridge (background)

Jersey City, NJ

More of Jersey City...

The Twin Towers used to stand behind the tallest two buildings...and were twice as tall.

Looking north up the channel of water between Jersey City & NYC...

Looking towards Manhattan - always a helicopter or two visible somewhere over Manhattan

Manhattan

Ellis Island

Manhattan (left) and Brooklyn (right)

Miss Liberty!!

She is huge!

The specks on the ground near the water...those are people...just to try and give you a little perspective of her size.

Manhattan again with Battery Park in the foreground.

More the Manhattan waters edge, looking towards M & B bridges.

And again...

Brooklyn Bridge

There were many pics of this bridge from 9/11 as many NYers ran for their lives across this bridge to Brooklyn! The towers used to stand a short distance off to the left in this picture.

Brooklyn Bridge & water patrol

Brooklyn Bridge looking back toward Manhattan

Manhattan Bridge which we went across to check out Brooklyn.

Looking at Brooklyn and the Manhattan Bridge.

People of Boston

A cartload of kiddies...
An obnoxious real estate agent @ Quincy Market who could be heard for blocks while she carried on her phone conversation...loved the stance tho'

Irish Famine Memorial Monument...

And again...in honor of my heritage...

Busker at Quincy Market

Nappin' @ Long Wharf

Lovebirds @ Long Wharf

Brat arguing with her mom on her cellphone @ Long Wharf

Heading out to his sailboat, moored near Long Wharf...

Molicepan @ Boston Common & the Public Garden Head up, chin up, walk tall...whatever you do...protect your eyes from that tie!

Some headless guy buying pretzels...weird.

Thought you had a rough day...bet it was still better than his...

Egad...I think we've spotted Mr Mafia in Little Italy...

The "real" people of my vacation...

This vacation (of which I've only posted about 1/2 of the pics so far) wouldn't have happened or would it have been so much fun...except for these people...

Kari, Karen & Rick

Kari & her Mom

Lori & KariShane & Joni

Us three gals...Lori, me, and Kari
Me & my pal Kari

Times Square...

NYPD surveillance stand...
The Chevrolet clock...and the Toshiba sign was hiding the "Vote" sign, which was behind the post that the ball drops on the countdown to the New Year...

The other end of Times Square...

And some more...

And again...

Our double decker tour buses...which helped us cover a lot of NYC in only 48 hrs...

More of the square...

And again...

And we're heading back to Boston...