Around Manhattan

We stayed at the Hampton Inn Manhattan - Madison Square Garden. It's a very small hotel that looks almost squeezed between two older buildings. The rooms are small but well equiped with a small desk, wardrobe and a flat panel TV on the wall. It was tight for the four of us but we managed. The fee breakfast, cleanliness, excellent service, great location and very cheap price made up for the small size of the rooms.

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Sliver of hotel, the Hampton Inn.	Our room at the Hampton Inn, not for those with claustrophobia.	Cool building visible from our hotel room at night.
A common sight, car elevator parking lots.	Madison Square Garden, just down the street from our hotel.	Ornate decoration on Queensborough Bridge.
The famous Waldorf Astoria.	New York City Subway station.	...train pulling in.
Statue of Linx Ze Xu, started the first War on Drugs.	Chinatown street scene.	Chinatown street scene.
Some actors preparing to film a scene on the street.	There they go running past the camera crew.	Confucius says, spend lots of money in New York City.
Radio City Music Hall.	Cool art deco medallions on the side.
Nice.	NBC Studios in the GE building. I didn't know they had an observation deck.	Nice art deco decorations.
Rockefeller Center, which is an ice skating rink in winter.	Famous Prometheus Statue.	I didn't realize it was a 70 story building.
St. Patrick's Cathedral near Rockefeller Center.	Nice door.	Trinity Church at Wall St. and Broadway.
Wall Street is an awfully narrow little street.	The back door to the New York Stock Exchange.	You probably lost all your money here at the New York Stock Exchange.
The steps where George Washington was sworn in as the first President.	Interesting side street nearby.	The Bull statue is actually a few blocks from Wall Street.
A Sept 11th monument on the side of a building.		Not much to see, just a big construction site.
There is this big cross at the site.	Really just a train station now.	The area around there has these panels with photos and info about Sept 11th.
St. Peter's Church directly across the street from the WTC site.	Interior of the church.
The stump of the 100 year old tree which shielded the church from flying debris from the WTC.	Tourists check out the old graveyard in front.

Chrysler Building

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It was difficult to get a full view of the building since it's surrounded by other fairly tall buildings.		I loved these "birds" sticking out the corners.
	As seen from the Empire State Building.

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Lily 28-Aug-2006 01:06
I loved the Hampton Inn at Madison Square (116 E 31st) because it was convenient to transportation, included free hot breakfast (pancakes, sausage, cereals, eggs, coffee, juices, tea, milk, whole and cut fruit, bagels, toast), snacks (hot chocolate chip cookies, mini hot dogs and samosas), free newspapers (USA Today, Wall Street) and free internet access daily (BEST-Free internet). We joined AAA to get the $170.10 USA a night deal. The hotel was practically new -- new everything (fluffy white down comforters, marble bath, carpeting, furniture, just new new new everything). Right across the street was the store called Jacks 99 cent world where groceries, gifts and everything was 99 cents (Hello Kitty candy, entire imported cheese from the Alps, gifts). Restaurants included Todai (Japanese high end buffet for $23.99/pp incl sushi, crab legs, beef ribs). On the same block is a clothing store where I bought new skirts for $4.99 -- NYC was quite the bargain.

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