Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Sunday Trip in the City

Every now and then Eddie and I take a "trip in the city". On Sunday we went to the Queens Art Museum. To be truthful, it isn't such a big "art museum" as a kid's art museum - with activities and all.

But they do have a really cool thing. Left over from the 1964/65 NY World's Fair is a HUGE scale model of the city of New York. You walk around the edges and every building in New York is on the model - thru 9/11. Apparently, now they have computer models so they don't need to see a project in scale to approve it. They were keeping it up because it was a useful tool and fun. But once the Twin towers collapsed they stopped using it.

So here are two pictures of it. This is Manhattan from Harlem looking towards downtown / Wall Street.




That is a person's elbow to the extreme right. It is a huge model.

Below is a section from the Lincoln Tunnel accross Manhattan. The Red circle is where we live (our tower was built after 9/11) and the blue circle is Rockefeller Center, where Eddie works.