let's see. where did we leave off? ah yes, private jet.

well. stayed the night in morristown, and in the morning we drove to NYC.
there, of course, you have your time square and TRL, along with this tiny-ass police department in the heart of everything.

walking through the city was this sign placed upon the IRS building. in the seconds it took to snap two shots, you could see it steadily rising. 4 more years!

we eventually arrived at the empire state buidling. it wasn't too crowded, but that was probably on account of the weather. stupid ivan and all his counterparts!
atop it was a bit hazy, as i have said, but you could still appreciate the enormity of the city, and that you were, in fact, 83 stories above the streets below. my ears were popping on the space-shuttle elevator ride to the top.

now that was the heart of manhattan. we took the subway to downtown. first stop, wall street. since 9/11 they've closed it to the public and have fuckers guarding outside during its open hours. i think i've seen speeches and Rage Against the Machine do their thing infront of this here flag. in that picture you can better see the guards.

walking around we came upon the merrill lynch bull. it seems as though he was having a bad day. but then, the shit that makes you stop dead in your tracks.

gound zero.
a crater amidst all the other sky scrapers. at least you could tell there was progress in rebuilding the area. as for the FDNY, i didn't realize that it was located ACROSS THE FUCKING STREET from the WTC. here's a shot of a shot of the damage taken by the department.

walking even further south to the shore, we came to battery park. here they hold a monument to the "down but not out" mentality that makes America great . . . or some bullshit.
that ball of meshed metal was once atop one of the WTC towers.

battery park also holds noteriety for being the spot where you got dumped off after emigrating from ellis island. therefore its the best spot to see the statue of liberty without paying the fee to get on over to her island. can you see that little turd there over on the left? as i said, the weather wasn't that accomodating. i could barely see her from the empire state building, and the photo i took of it isn't worth your time.

well, that's it for New York, unless you wanted to see the post office. sorry, i couldn't fit the whole slogan into one picture.
anyway. this is painstaking and i don't think i could sit here for much longer.
hopefully you're enjoying what you've seen thus far, otherwise my labors are fruitless. tomorrow (or whenever i get around to it) i'll start on boston. there might not be as many photos of that place as in NY. the weather was even more atrocious. yet still an awesome town.
well.
til then.