New York, april 2014 with Alexander

Day 2:

This second day of our visit started with a visit to the USSIntrepid Museum, an aircraft carrier from WWII. The keel was laid on 1.st December 1941 just 6 day shy of the Pearl Harbor attack. Intrepid served in both WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Space Race and the Cold War before being decommissioned on 15th March 1974 at Quonset Point, Rhode Island

As for getting to all the other places we saw - we walked

The south-west corner of Central Park, Columbus Circle

Fiakers are abundant in and near Central Park

On the cornr of W 58th St and 11th

Down at pier 90 on the way to USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

USS Intrepid, a de-comissioned aircraft carrier from 1943 that saw action in WWII and the Vietnam war. She also was the recovery ship for NASA Mercury and Gemini space missions

A Lockheed A-12 or later SR-71 Black Bird on the flight deck of Intrepid

The island or command center and bridge of USS Intrepid

AA guns

Grumman Avenger

North American FJ-3 Fury

Douglas A-4B Skyhawk

Grumman A-6E Intruder

Rear end of an F-14

The space shuttle

Concorde

Tail section of the space shuttle Enterprise

Nose gear of the space shuttle

Front view

Belly view of the space shuttle

Well, I guess a space age car

View down Central Park West

Yes, quite

Fire escapes

Road sign

View down 7th Ave

Somewhere