Sunset over Manhattan

I've been told by you know who that I have to be choiceful in the pictures I keep.
The thing is that I'm not so good at making choices especially when I see a reason why to keep something, otherwise I would have less pairs of shoes or pictures of elephants :)

I can truly justify why I want to keep all the below pictures: the sky might be slightly different, the color of the light on the antenna changed, the sun moved, you name it.

Empire State building at sunset

THE ball

We did see it…

… digitally :)

The famous stair case of the MOMA

Metropolitan Museum

The Metropolitan museum is one of my favorite museums in the world. If I were living in New York, I would have an annual pass and come every other week to visit one section at a time. This museum is huge and it’s impossible to visit entirely in one day.

We started with a tour of the museum highlights. We were extremely lucky as only the two of us showed us at the meeting point and therefore had a private tour. I still cannot believe we had a guide just for us for one full hour. Not only did we get to ask all the questions we wanted, but also we saw more than in the standard tour as with only 2 people to move, it goes faster.

Here is a selection of my highlights, leaving aside the paintings.

Time Square

The lights, the crowd,

The musicals, the crowd,

The shops, the crowd...

Brooklyn Bridge

First glimpse at the Brooklyn Bridge from the pier below.

I was quite surprised by the pier area. Last time I was down here it was not really the place to be. Now it’s been cleaned up and revamped making it nice to walk along. If only it was warmer weather.

Unfortunately for us there were works on the bridge and big parts of it were covered. Still we walked it all the way to Brooklyn and back. Once again, this walk is much nicer in a warmer season. With the wind it felt very cold on the bridge.

Also first glimpse at the Empire State Building and the growing “twin” towers.