Independence Day
Yesterday, Dad, Grandma, and I saw the fireworks at Liberty Park. I would say that they are worth the hype (however, they were not lauched from Liberty Island itself, but Liberty Park).
To explain my location at the moment - I'm somewhere in the northeastern corner of New Jersey. I can't see any bits of New York (as I could from a certain apartment in Cliffside Park), but most people commute there every day, and the sky is vaguely brown/gray from the scattered light that somehow filters in from NYC, Newark (within sight of NYC), and Jersey City.
To explain the location of Liberty Park - it is within eyesight of the Statue of Liberty. The whole region is a fjord-like mish mash of islands, peninsulas, bays, cliffs, and burroughs. The park is adjacent to Jersey City (to the east),; Manhattan is right behind it . Brooklyn circles at least half of the panorama, with a bit Queens visible off to the south, (if you know where to look). Very close to Liberty Park are Ellis and Liberty Islands, an extemely short ferry ride away.
The fireworks commenced despite the drizzle. There were spinning pin-wheels, and crackling clusters that popped. The blasts echoed accross the bay and off of the immense stone masses of New York and Jersey City, maybe even off of the remote cliffs of Edgewater and Cliffside Park. At some point, the fireworks started off in New York as well, in Central Park and another location. Manhattan already looks unreal in the evenings - those photos that show the glittering, glamorous Manhattan - they do not lie. At all. With the fireworks, Manhattan jumps from simply a good view to gorgeous. A garden of glittering stalagmites with shapeshifting flowers.
(New York can be an arse as well, but it is a city I am fond of).
To explain my location at the moment - I'm somewhere in the northeastern corner of New Jersey. I can't see any bits of New York (as I could from a certain apartment in Cliffside Park), but most people commute there every day, and the sky is vaguely brown/gray from the scattered light that somehow filters in from NYC, Newark (within sight of NYC), and Jersey City.
To explain the location of Liberty Park - it is within eyesight of the Statue of Liberty. The whole region is a fjord-like mish mash of islands, peninsulas, bays, cliffs, and burroughs. The park is adjacent to Jersey City (to the east),; Manhattan is right behind it . Brooklyn circles at least half of the panorama, with a bit Queens visible off to the south, (if you know where to look). Very close to Liberty Park are Ellis and Liberty Islands, an extemely short ferry ride away.
The fireworks commenced despite the drizzle. There were spinning pin-wheels, and crackling clusters that popped. The blasts echoed accross the bay and off of the immense stone masses of New York and Jersey City, maybe even off of the remote cliffs of Edgewater and Cliffside Park. At some point, the fireworks started off in New York as well, in Central Park and another location. Manhattan already looks unreal in the evenings - those photos that show the glittering, glamorous Manhattan - they do not lie. At all. With the fireworks, Manhattan jumps from simply a good view to gorgeous. A garden of glittering stalagmites with shapeshifting flowers.
(New York can be an arse as well, but it is a city I am fond of).