{"id":573881646,"date":"2011-06-04T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573881646"},"modified":"2011-06-19T13:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T18:05:26","slug":"more-new-york-more-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/06\/04\/more-new-york-more-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"More New York? More New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

The people have spoken. And, mostly, what they said was “Surely there are more pictures. And there are. Each one I’ve shown you over the last four days came from my phone. These are from my SLR, which I only took into the city on our first day. So this will be familiar but, hopefully, not repetitive. <\/p>\n

Having gotten these out of the way, however, we can move on to the next grand adventure. <\/p>\n

(Today we had company in my god-sister in-law and her husband. They came down for dinner and to spend the night. We had steaks and talked about cycling and family and recipes and things. And since I didn’t take any pictures of our early-morning laundromat run, dinner, cleaning or the cookbook my mother-in-law gave us today, I’m wrapping up New York. The cookbook, though, is incredible. I’m not a cookbook guy, but I’m excited about Off the Eaten Path<\/a>. We will be cooking from this — and referring to it here in the future — and you would too if you enjoyed the under-the-radar type places.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, New York, one more time.<\/p>\n

\"Liberty\"<\/center><\/p>\n

You never get over that feeling, I think. <\/p>\n

\"Liberty\"<\/center><\/p>\n

I know one of these tough, steely-eyed guys from the Bronx. He gets a little choked up when he talks about the Statue of Liberty, trying to imagine what it would have been like, not too many decades ago, when his ancestors saw it from their boat. <\/p>\n

The next time we visit we’re taking the in-depth tour of the statue and the island.<\/p>\n

\"NYLife\"<\/center><\/p>\n

One of my two favorite rooftops in Manhattan, above is the New York Life Building. It is the 81st tallest building in the city. Built over two years at a cost of $21 million, this gothic building was completed in 1928. It has 40 floors and is 615 feet tall. The roof is comprised of 25,000 gold-leaf tiles.<\/p>\n

\"Chrysler\"<\/center><\/p>\n

Best building in town, the Chrysler building is the one I always look for. Now 80 years old, this is still the fourth largest building in town. I do enjoy the art deco stylings here. Also, a picture of the building, from the ground, is now on the front page<\/a> of the site. Last year I put up a view of the Chrysler in black and white, this time it shines in full color.<\/p>\n

\"Wendy\"<\/center><\/p>\n

Wendy checks out Central Park from Top of the Rock. Great views up there. No lines, no waiting.<\/p>\n

\"Cloudscraper\"<\/center><\/p>\n

When people sailed into the area and saw New York’s first “cloud scraper” as it was then called, they might have marveled at the sight. Or thought, “How ostentatious.” <\/p>\n

And by cloud scraper I mean the three-story building in the foreground. <\/p>\n

When we get home and I get all of the photo galleries caught up there will be plenty more from Boston and New York that didn’t make it onto the blog. I’ll, of course, let you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The people have spoken. And, mostly, what they said was “Surely there are more pictures. And there are. Each one I’ve shown you over the last four days came from my phone. These are from my SLR, which I only took into the city on our first day. So this will be familiar but, hopefully, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573881646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573881646"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573881655,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881646\/revisions\/573881655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573881646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573881646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573881646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}