New York City - World Trade Center

My 1976 visit was in late November. I visited the World Trade Center's observation deck. I watched as intervals of sunshine danced across mid-Manhattan and dappled the Empire State Building. Will such a photo ever be taken again?

I include 1976 and 1978 photos of the Statue of Liberty standing in the winter sun.
The next three pictures are from within the statue's crown looking back towards lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge.
The final one in this group looks back from the Staten Island Ferry.

I walk as much as possible when sightseeing. I take the subway and poke into store windows. The sidewalks are busy but the great cliffs of windows dominate these pictures. Nothing made by man or nature is truly permanent.
My first photo looks back from Park Avenue; the Trade Center towers provides the background. The second shows the Metropolitan Life Building behind Grand Central. The third shows the Empire State Building from in front of Macy's department store.

An unusual eating establishment is the McDonald's restaurant at 160 Broadway. Here you see the doorman and some of the staff. It is certainly the classiest McDonald's to be found anywhere.
It is directly across the street from One Liberty Plaza. I took these WTC photos in April 2000.

I made several photos of St. Pauls Chapel on Broadway. The graveyard was a calm oasis before the storm. The World Trade Center towers provided a brilliant white wall rising to the south.

Also in April 2000 I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge. There were magnificent views back towards the great towers of lower Manhattan.