Thursday, September 08, 2011

May 2011: Walking down FDR Drive

After the Wall Street Darshan, we landed up on the FDR Drive and turned right down to Battery Park. This is a series of photographs of that sojourn.

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Jetties in the water.

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Sailing ships.

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Brooklyn Bridge. Why does it have a bandage around it?

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All down to the end. Hurting baby?

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Buoys? Jetty pillars?

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Hello? there’s the heliport.

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Nicely sitting together there. The helicopters were jumping up and down quite frequently.

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Loading cranes at a dock

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Yield to Peds? eh?

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People were sunning themselves on the benches.

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That’s a giant building, I wonder what that is.

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A plane over Queens.

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A police museum!

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A chopper taking off.

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Taking some passengers.

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Ready to take off.

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Skids off the heliport.

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Up about a meter

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Pushing the cyclic forward and bending forward.

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Final few passengers.

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Tilting to starboard

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Moving even more

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We are off.

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Another chopper getting ready to take off.

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One coming into land

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Positioning

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Turning into the landing position

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Ready

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Settling down, that man on the right is a brave man

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Settled down.

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The Downtown Manhattan Heliport.

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A fast launch.

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Another chopper, this time with a wheeled undercarriage, coming into land over a cruise boat.

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Flaring

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Settling down now.

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Keeping on moving.

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Lake Placid?? Wasnt there a horror film with this title? worrisome.

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Governors Island Ferry Station.

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People crossing into the waiting room.

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A policeman on his bike.

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Couple of tourists resting.

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Some serious ironmongery.

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The back end of the Statten Island Ferry.

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Moving on the other side, the huge sign.

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Check out the number plate, ATE? lol

I keep on walking to the Battery Park.

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