Comments | tibbycat: Photos of New York

tibbycat

Photos of New York

Jul 19, 2007 02:24

I took a lot of photos in New York, so here they are:

( Click here for my photos of New York... all of them... )

new york, america, nintendo

Comments 24

aftondays July 18 2007, 16:46:47 UTC

Looks like quite a trip! I so want to go to NYC someday.

tibbycat July 19 2007, 04:52:00 UTC

T'was quite fun. I understand now how it's a city that doesn't close down.

springdove July 18 2007, 16:57:29 UTC

I believe the smoke comes up from the underground when the subway passes under it. Did you ever hear the noise of the trains right before or after the smoke? I may be completely wrong, but I think that's what it is. :)

Lovely pictures dear. I look forward to seeing the rest of your trip from your perspective. :)

tibbycat July 19 2007, 04:54:52 UTC

Hmm, yeah now I think about it, I can't remember if I heard a noise of the trains right before or after the smoke. I'll have to check next time I'm there.

But even so, surely NYC isn't using steam trains? Heh. Would electric trains make smoke? :/

Danke. Still some more to come :)

springdove July 19 2007, 12:41:59 UTC

Actually, I just saw an article in the paper today about an underground steam pipe that exploded in NYC yesterday. So it's not the subways, it's steam pipes built under the ground back in the '20s! Yay! I know the answer! I knew it was steam rather than smoke that came up (b/c homeless people sometimes sleep on the grates to keep warm in the winter). But that explains it better, I think.

tibbycat July 20 2007, 06:43:50 UTC

A steam powered city! I saw that explosion on the news today. On 42nd street I think it was. Not far from where I was staying.

hymnia July 18 2007, 18:04:30 UTC

Cool pictures! I recognize a couple of places from my trip there last summer (Rockefeller Plaza, Times Square, and I think that church might be the cathedral I visited (St. Luke's, maybe?)).

tibbycat July 19 2007, 04:55:43 UTC

Thanks :)
St something or other. I think it was a Roman Catholic church.. I think.

vincevalentine July 19 2007, 00:30:03 UTC

-___-; I still slip up now and then and say 'Drug Store' every now and then. Of course, my GP was like 'huh???? Drug Store?'

I think the smoke comes up from the underground subway o__O;; ('coz NY NY has subways whereas LA does not) at least that's what my friend from the Queens told me.

tibbycat July 19 2007, 04:57:33 UTC

Heh, yeah, "drug store" sounds like something illegal and illicit to my mind.

highandrandom July 19 2007, 01:08:16 UTC

I can't quite work out how smoke would come from the subway (unless they're still on steam trains in the states) but I'm willing to go with it.

Can't wait to see all that stuff (though I'm amused by how much time you spent in the Nintendo Store - though I can't blame you - it's *awesome*.

Personally I'm disappointed that the fire hydrant isn't red ;) Don't suppose you got your DS engraved? ;)

Looks like you had a great time :)

tibbycat July 19 2007, 05:04:40 UTC

Yep, this is what I don't get, as we... have a sorta subway system in the CBD in Sydney I guess and I've never seen smoke pouring up onto the road :/
Although, maybe it's not quite the same. *shurgs*

Oh Nintendo world was Nintendo heaven. And the DS and Gameboy Advance games there were so cheap compared to anywhere else I've seen. I picked up Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga (that's now deleted in Australia) on GBA for a friend for only $19.95. So that's, what, something like $22 or $25 Australian dollars.

Yeah, I was hoping the fire hydrant would be red too. It felt wrong not being red. Nah, didn't get my DS engraved, but eh, maybe another time in the future :D

Indeedy! I think you're going to have a blast when you go :)