More New York City

Here are some more shots from New York City.

I wasn't sure just what this was supposed to be, but it was certainly interesting. A sort of traveling sculpture of men in the 30's building Rockafeller Center.

The famous Citicorp Building. I didn't manage to get a picture of the top of it, but this is the one with the huge slanted roof that you may have seen before. It's about 60 stories high, and right after they built it, snow would collect on the slanted part and then come sliding off it to crash 60 stories below. I wouldn't want to have been there when it happened!

Here's a link to a good picture of it.
http://www.pjhealy.com/oldweb/nyc/citicorp.htm

One of the many cathedrals in the city. I can't remember which one this is.

A shot from the show "Wicked" about the Wicked Witch of the West. It was quite a spectacle.

I had to go into the F A O Swartz toy store since I sort of stumbled upon it. This is a giant keyboard that kids love to jump around on. The keys light up and produce a tone, so you can actually play a scale.

I guess one of the things that F A O Swartz is known for is stuffed animals.
And more stuffed animals. They had just about every kind of dog in big bins like this, and some cats, too.

Don't you just want to crawl in there with them?

And some really big animals, too. notice the giraffe. This lion and his mate are full size.
The main reason I took this picture was to try to get a shot of the full sized mastodon in the background. It's the brown hump behind the cow and horse. It goes all the way to the floor -- about 14 feet.

A strange sort of bicycle.
One of the buildings I went into down near Wall Street. This is the US Customs House. It's just a museum now, but this muraled ceiling was one of the most fastinating things there and it is beautifully painted.
A gravestone from Trinity Church on Wall Street where the bells are. The earliest one I could find was 1731. I think this one is 1774 or so.

A shot from another show. This is "A Prairie Home Companion". I had a great seat in the balcony. This is Garrison Keillor doing his Lake Woebegone monologue.
The inside of Trinity Church. (Sorry these are sort of out of order. It's hard to keep them straight.)
Another picture from the bell room. You can see the huge clock hand outside the window, and the street in front is Wall Street.

This is from the back side of Trinity Church. They have a pedestrian bridge that connects the church to this building, and the church parish hall and offices are in here. I think the church probably owns the building and leases the space to businesses. They do a lot of that, and they're said to have a billion dollars in the bank.

That's all for now.