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New York City - May 2002Click any picture to enlarge.
Sections
World Trade Center
Financial District
Times Square
Statue of Liberty
Empire State Building
Film/Photo Shoots
David Blaine's Vertigo
Little Italy
Miscellaneous
The clean up at the World Trade Center site was nearly finished so there wasn't much to see. The complex goes several stories into the ground and meets the subway so it basically looks like a giant hole in the ground. It's pretty weird to see such an open space in an otherwise very dense part of lower Manhattan. These photos were taken from the viewing platform next to St. Paul's Chapel. You can see the damage to several surrounding buildings from the collapse.
WTC Site - Platform View
WTC Site - Street Level View
WTC Site - Street Level View
This is the I-Beam "Cross" that they found in the rubble. It's now mounted to a concrete pedestal at the site.
WTC Site - Street Level View
WTC Site - Street Level View
There is constantly a crowd of people looking into the site.
This view is looking south on Greenwich Street into the WTC site. All seven buildings were lost. It's just a big empty space now.
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The Concrete Canyons
This is looking north on Broadway at Bowling Green.
The NYSE Bull
Quick trivia tip: behind the bull is Bowling Green Park, where Dutch settler Peter Minuit supposedly purchased Manhattan island from the Native Americans for $24 worth of goods.
This guy's having fun.
The NYSE
You can't get within 30 feet of the Exchange anymore and all the streets (including Wall Street) are blocked off from vehicles.
FDNY taking a break at Battery Park City
This overlooks the Hudson River and New Jersey.
World Financial Center
These buildings aren't that tall, but they're huge. Down below is a sailboat school.
City Hall Park
Looking north at Two Times Square
Looking south at One Times Square
Street Performer in front of ABC Studios
For some reason NYPD hassles all the street performers except this guy.
Looking north
Looking south
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Statue of Liberty
You can tour the grounds but they don't let you inside the statue anymore.
Liberty Island Ferry Dock
C'mon, hurry up people!
Ellis Island - Registration Hall
They did a great job restoring the buildings and turning it into a museum.
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Empire State Building Lobby
The line wasn't too bad in the afternoon. It took a total of 30 minutes to get to the top but the elevator ride only took a few seconds. That thing climbs faster than a Cessna!
Looking south at lower Manhattan
Looking southeast
Looking northeast
Looking north. Central Park is up at the top.
Looking north and down. Bryant Park is at the top. You can't really see him, but David Blaine was still standing there.
Looking northwest. You can barely see the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier at the top.
Looking down at the Macy's building. Check out all the cabbies.
I'm not sure what building this is, but it's on 34th Street. Madison Square Garden is just to its left.
Taking a picture atop the Empire State Building.
Empire State Building Observatory
They only let you go to the 86th story observatory, but it's still a pretty good view.
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Photo Shoot at Empire-Fulton Park
New Yorkers really love their jeans.
Photo Shoot at Empire-Fulton Park
Another view but with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. They were working on a shot where the model appears to jump over the orange net fence. But all she would do was kick her legs in the air. It worked pretty well.
Photo Shoot in Times Square
Can it be? Are these the Hilton sisters?! They're modeling that white furry purse.
Film Shoot in Chinatown
The movie is "A Few Good Days" with Michael Douglas.
Back to TopBy chance I was walking by Bryant Park when they were setting up for this stunt, so I got to see how it all started. Now that I think about it, it wasn't all that interesting.
Promo Poster
Blaine definitely has a flair for the dramatic.
Taping Disclaimer
I like the bit about your image being used throughout the universe, in perpetuity.
Amazing how many media people showed up for this.
Blaine talks to reporters.
There he goes, up to the pillar.
He's just about to step off onto the pillar. If you look closely you can see the two support bars on the side of the pillar that he would grab while exercising his legs so the blood wouldn't pool up. But the bars were only there when he'd need to move his legs.
Spectators
You'd think that it would be pretty boring to watch a guy stand motionless for 35 hours but people still did it. It was pretty funny because people would taunt him with sarcastic jokes.
Bryant Park
Wide shot of Bryant Park where the event took place. He wasn't nearly as high as that promo poster made it look.
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Little Italy
The buildings here have a lot more color.
Little Italy
There's a lot of these tiny designer shops that seem to pop up out of nowhere. It's odd to see such insanely expensive stores in graffiti laden buildings, kind of like that Seinfeld episode where George goes clubbing with fashion models in a meat packing plant.
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Walking the Brooklyn Bridge
This is looking east.
The Manhattan Bridge
This was taken at the Empire-Fulton State Park in Brooklyn. The bridge carries both cars and subway trains.
Pete's Downtown Restaurant at Fulton Landing in Brooklyn
Next to the restaurant is a really nice viewing area of the East River and lower Manhattan.
These photos were taken at Fulton Landing in Brooklyn. Usually you can count on some pink and purple color after the sun goes down, but this one was really dull.
The scale looks wacked out in this shot. Maybe the clouds make the buildings look unproportionally small.
The River Cafe at Fulton Landing
Cool sign. I had to climb a traffic signal to get this shot.
One Central Park
This is a new hotel/residential complex on the southwest corner of Central Park. My head hurts just thinking about how much these apartments will cost.
Road work, New York style
These guys are nuts! They were painting new crosswalk stripes while the traffic was still going!
A taxi drives right over the fresh paint (it dried that fast).
Park Avenue
That car got in the way, but I kinda like it!
Brooklyn Bridge and the East River
Panoramic taken from the Pier 17 South Street Seaport.
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©2002 Tim Le
