Anyway, here are some of my favourite pics I took:



^ The 'GRACE' building, on 42nd and 6th. Perhaps my favourite in all of Manhattan. (There's another one, nearer Central Park.)



^ The Flatiron building.



^ First night. Our introduction to the city, really. As I said, humbling.



^ The post office building, which as I said before is an example of the architectural approach of New York City in general: make your city look beautiful, and the people will be beautiful too. It results in a lot of excess.



^ Quite a cliché, but these fire escapes fascinate me. Their novelty hadn't worn off by the time I'd left.



^ By no means a great photo, but it's the Barzini steps, dammit!



^ I didn't take any pictures of the World Trade Center site. I'll happily take plenty once the new complex is up, but I can't see I agreed with or understood my friends taking pictures of it. Anyway, this building overlooks the site, and I stood at the very bottom of it to take this. Because of the rich blue of the sky, it looks like the building itself is actually disappearing; hard to tell when it ends. It's beautiful.



^ I took several of the Statue of Liberty; this, with it 'suspended in air', is by far the best.



^ I think this is where Moochie's Bar used to be, the bar in which Popeye Doyle gets shit-faced in The French Connection. I looked that up before I went, and I'm pretty sure this must be the site.



^ Not a great photo really, but I was wondering why you often see a line of police cars sitting stationary, with their lights flashing? This was opposite the UN building.