The South Riding RV Travels

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16th October 2012 - New York City - Grand Central Terminal

For several days we caught the PATH train to 33rd St. Today we went from there up towards Grand Central Terminal. This is the entrance to an adjacent hotel. Very ornate architecture.
We had to run the gauntlet of the ticket touts trying to sell us tickets for the Empire State Building and other attractions. But we managed to escape.
There are several towers in Manhattan which are famous. This is the Chrysler Building, another skyscraper from the art deco style of the 1930s. It is on 42nd St which meets up with Broadway at Times Square (hence the name of the show). At 1046ft it was the tallest building in the world for 11 months in 1930 before it was overtaken by the Empire State. It is still the tallest brick building.
The clock on the side of Grand Central Station is a bit over the top.
The Pershing Square bridge carries Park Avenue into the station.
The main foyer is very grand. It is larger than Penn Central although that is the larger and busier station.
Several lines terminate here carrying commuters to and from the city.
Commuter trains at rest after the morning peak. There are about 40 platforms on two levels.
Lunchtime deliveries from a local deli.
A very modern sculpture over the entrance to the Roger Smith Hotel.
St Bartholomew's Church nestles between the skyscrapers as we walk up towards Central Park.
An odd but colourful sculpture on the central reservation.
Skyscrapers at the southern end of Central Park. I think this might be the Donald Trump Tower Hotel on Columbus Circle. It is the 51st tallest building in New York.
A new skyscraper under construction with 80: floors. This will shortly acquire much notoriety as the crane collapses in hurricane Sandy.
A major form of transport is the yellow taxi of which there are thousands of different shapes and sizes.
Note the sharp edges on these towers which presumably help with wind resistance.
A sculpture at Columbus Circle.
So we walk back down Broadway towards Times Square on our way home. I think we walked about 10 miles today.
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There were a bunch of businessmen in Times Square all looking up at this billboard. I'm not sure why.