The Bridge: opened in 1883 and was the world's first steel suspension bridge. Considered by many at the time to be the world's 8th wonder.

Cars on the lower deck, wooden walk way on the upper deck, clouds above it all.

Maintenance men on the Brooklyn Bridge. Humorously, everywhere we went, the city's mantenance guys raised their brows and smiled at Aungela incessantly. "Yo, Rocco! We gots oursleves a lady from L.A. takin aah pikcha! Welcome yous!" Hehehe... Above: a not so funny, freakish shot of me atop the Brooklyn Bridge with a forced cackle. During our whole time in New York Aungela kept saying, "Daniel, why don't you show your teeth when you smile?" Me: "I don't know." Aungela: "Well SMILE!" Me: "You mean like this?" Aunglea: "No, NOT like that!"

Above left: Battery Park City waterfront. Above right: one of those pictures that you think will turn out artistic when you shoot it, but really just turns out to be a boring fence with a boring tree when you get it home.

The Au Mandarin Chinese Restaurant in the World Fanancial Center (WFC) where we stopped for dinner after visiting the WTC. Three people: $45 Aungela and a cute goofy aloof smile. A great picture of Starr with her hair illuminated by a halogen restaurant light above our table.

Trinity Church along Broadway and Trinity Place. It was New York's tallest structure when it was built in 1846 and is the 3rd structure to be built at the site. The Angelican parish in Lower Manhattan was established by King William III in 1697. The original church was built in 1699 but destroyed by fire. And the 2nd one? I don't know!

Above: Wall Street, much MUCH narrower than I thought it would be! Wall Street follows the line of a wooden wall built by the Dutch to keep the native Americans and British trade rivals at bay. A memorial at Wall and Nassau streets marks the spot where George Washington, the first US President, was sworn in. On the right, the Art Deco style Bank of New York, the oldest banking institution in New York.

While in New York City I was interested to see unending leaflets, posters, and advertisements praising Jews, Judaism, and Israel everywhere. For entertainment's sake I would replace the words "Jewish" or "Jews" with "Christian" or "whites" (not that Christianity is for whites only!) just to see if the same slogans would work if they were reworded, and most of them wouldn't, at least not politically. In any case, having just arrived from Saudi Arabia which is the arch enemy of Israel, it was interesting to be in New York City with its huge Jewish population to now get sentiments from the other side of the relationship, absent not surprisingly in the Muslim-Arab world. More particularly, I suppose I just find it somewhat annoying that both Muslims and Jews are using the United States as a battleground for their foreign religious-cultural-political aspirations in the Middle East. The above newspaper insert sprawled out across our table as we walked in is but one example. A similar insert from any Arab-Muslim nation would be equally suspect. A more appropriate presidential insert title might be, "Why My Administration didn't force Israelis and Palestinians to resolve Their Nasty Entangling Conflict which drags America down the Drain and leads to September 11ths." Apparently no-one asked my opinion on the title though! ;-}

Above: Atlantic Coast Memorial, commemorating US service men who died in World War II, located in Battery Park on the southern tip of Manhattan.

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