> Take a cab over to Liberty State Park (10 minutes).
> The views of New York City are great. Additionally the
> Liberty Science Center is interesting for architectural
> photography. Also, the refurbished train station is
> quite interesting as this is where the immigrants caught
> trains to the rest of the US after they passed through
> the immigration facility at Ellis Island.
>
> If you really have some time you can catch the ferry
> boat from the train station to the Statue of Liberty
> and Ellis Island.
I concur with this suggestion after visiting Liberty State
Park, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island last summer.
The train station is spectacular. Outside the main building
there are many forllorn weatherbeaten unrestored train platforms.
Check the ferry achedule at www.circlelinedowntown.com
to see if you have enough time to get out to the
islands - and back in time!
The ferry from LSP goes to Ellis Island first, then Liberty
Island before returning to LSP. I would say you need a
minimum of three hours to do justice to Ellis, though the
ferries run at 45 minute intervals, so you could do less.
A tip for the Statue of Liberty: If you want a tour of the
museum in the statue pedistal, you need a ticket which is
only given out at the ferry ticket booth on the shore. It
costs nothing, but if you get to the island and don't have
one, you are out of luck. You can reserve a statue ticket
along with a ferry ticket at the ferry web site. The tour
takes quite a bit of time, although I don't remember how much.
One sight I found spectacular you can not phorograph.
As you enter the museum tour you go through a security check
where a computer voice mechanically tells people to enter,
stop, and exit a scanning device. From the back of the line,
watching people obediently march in parallel rows to the
metronome beat of robotic commands, it looks like something
out of a dystopian science fiction movie - perhaps people
marching into the machine that makes Soylent Green.
Considering the location, it seemed somehow ironic to me.
----- Larry Woods
lmwoods@xxxxxxx
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