New York - Empire State, Wall Street, Manhattan

The second day in New York we started the day in a typical New York diner, it was run by Italians and the interior, furniture, booths etc appeared exactly the same as they most likely have since the 1960’s. It is difficult to get a decent coffee in New York, however I’m sure you could probably get a decent one in the Italian District of Manhattan, but we didn’t get there. We visited the Empire State Building. Once again, the outlook from the top of Empire State is one of familiarity from years and years of film-making. The New York Skyline looking down along central park, and the financial district, most of the surface area of Manhattan Island Apart From Central Park is an ocean of skyscrapers. The architecture is uniquely of Art Deco Design with simple lines, and big and bold, dark grey and light grey bricks and stone. We visited Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange, quite a surreal experience, to visit the very place, the catalyst of the catastrophic collapse of the world’s financial markets, and being causal for some of the most powerful national economies in the world to be on the precipice of ruin – all with its origins of greed and financial delinquency. The Wall Street area was actually a quiet part of town. Later that day we went on the Stratton Island Ferry past the Statue of Liberty, and unfortunately I didn’t get any good photos.