City Island with Photos 40:51N 73:48W

Millybrown
Mark Hillmann
Thu 30 Oct 2008 13:45
We, (Milly and I) came back through the city yesterday.
 
 
 The sort of proper, bright and sunny day that the boys missed in New York.
 
 I am paying for it today,  on a mooring near City Island, north of New York, with rain and 20-30 knot winds all day.  Failing to get things connected so blogs with photos only from wi-fi spots.  The old windows 98 computer did not manage them.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Downtown New York, Lower Manhattan, is as you imagine it, glass and steel, nothing old or tatty.  The heliport by the river had 6 machines powered up with rotors spinning, others in and out like noisy dragonflies.  The ferries and water taxis seemed much less threatening in daylight.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 From the East River side, the Empire State Building is not part of downtown Manhattan.  The blocks in front of it are much more like the East London ones we demolish, with pick-up trucks on top to test Toyota robustness.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Across the river from East Side in New York state, the area of seemed derelict, old jetties and buildings, perhaps just waiting for redevelopment.  Quite a contrast.
 
 
 
 
At the north end, Upper East Side, you are back to posh office blocks. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ten miles away, I am on a mooring off the City Island Yacht Club.  I could not get ashore all day:  Even in the lulls twenty knots is too much wind to row ashore without good shelter.  There was shelter last night with the wind off the island, but it has come round to give a mile for the seas to build up now.  
 
The forecast is better for tomorrow and the wind direction now is right to blow me back to Cape Cod.  I will wait for a bit less wind and some daylight.
 
 

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