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GOOGLE MAP - SLIDE #) DESCR [word count]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  1) Around Manhattan Map [53]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  2) West Side [262]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  3) West Side [123]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  4) West Side [224]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  5) Piers [56]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  6) Intrepid and Cruise Ships [40]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  7) Intrepid Museum [90]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  8) Empire State Building [25]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  9) Javits Center [141]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  10) Javits Center Land View [83]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  11) Javits Center [86]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  12) Westway & Warehouses [179]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  13) Starrett Lehigh Building & Post Office [49]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  14) Abandoned Pier [67]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  15) Abandoned Pier [64]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  16) New Jersey [96]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  17) West 24th Street Bubble [54]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  18) John J Harvey Fireboat [151]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  19) Chelsea Piers [176]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  20) Coast Guard [33]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  21) Chelsea Piers [49]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  22) Chelsea Piers [172]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  23) Duffers Delight - Golf Driving Rang [141]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  24) Pier 57 [45]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  25) Greenwich Village [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  26) Empire State Building [82]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  27) Holland Tunnel Ventilation Towers [383]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  28) Tribeca [153]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  29) Travelers Insurance [95]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  30) Battery Park [46]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  31) World Financial Center [158]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  32) World Financial Center [92]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  33) World Financial Center – Winter Garden [54]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  34) World Trade Center Memorial [131]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  35) Battery Park City [165]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  36) Southern End of Manhattan [40]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  37) Museum of Jewish Heritage [173]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  38) Museum of Jewish Heritage [69]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  39) Battery Park [70]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  40) Pier A [8]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  41) Pier A Clock tower [72]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  42) Jersey City [93]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  43) NYPD Harbor Unit [222]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  44) East Coast Memorial [109]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  45) Staten Island Ferry [107]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  46) Ellis Island [50]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  47) Statue of Liberty [43]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  48) Governors Island – Castle Williams [152]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  49) Coast Guard Headquarters [86]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  50) Staten Island Ferry Terminal [123]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  51) Brooklyn Docks [34]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  52) Brooklyn Heights [113]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  53) Heliport [33]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  54) Ferry Port Pier Eleven [133]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  55) Large Passenger Ships [30]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  56) Three Bridges [49]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  57) South Street Seaport [173]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  58) South Street Seaport [119]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  59) Pier 17 [62]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  60) Old Fulton Fish Market [159]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  61) Brooklyn Bridge [340]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  62) Brooklyn Bridge [252]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  63) New York Post Building [193]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  64) Manhattan Bridge [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  65) Manhattan Bridge [253]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  66) Wall Street [66]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  67) Williamsburg Bridge [88]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  68) Williamsburg Bridge [26]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  69) East River Park [107]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  70) Consolidated Edison Power Plant [25]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  71) East Midtown [81]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  72) UN School & Waterside Plaza [85]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  73) East 34th Street [31]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  74) Bellevue Hospital Building [339]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  75) Heliport & Ferry Terminal [45]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  76) Heliport [51]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  77) New York Water Taxi [72]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  78) Greenpoint Brooklyn [76]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  79) South View – East River [105]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  80) Roosevelt Island and 59th Street Bridge [109]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  81) United Nations Building [131]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  82) Trump World Tower [189]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  83) Industrial Queens [39]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  84) Citicorp Tower and Beekman Place [86]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  85) River House [117]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  86) Old Roosevelt Island – Smallpox Hospital [163]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  87) Construction [74]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  88) 59th Street Bridge [145]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  89) 59th Street Bridge [38]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  90) Hospital Row [52]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  91) FDR Drive & Upper East Side [121]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  92) Triborough Bridge [183]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  93) Wards Y Randalls Island [174]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  94) Triborough Bridge Harlem Lift [272]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  95) Willis Avenue Bridge [77]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  96) Ninja Turtles [41]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  97) Third Avenue Bridge [156]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  98) Park Avenue (Metro North) Bridge [86]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  99) Madison Avenue Bridge [147]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  100) Madison Avenue Bridge Gears [13]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  101) Madison Avenue Bridge Traffic [32]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  102) 145th Street Bridge [42]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  103) Yankee Stadium [145]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  104) High Bridge Tower [32]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  105) High Bridge Tower [28]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  106) South from High Bridge [18]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  107) High Bridge [152]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  108) Alexander Hamilton Bridge & Washington Heights Bridge [77]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  109) South on the River [31]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  110) University Heights Bridge [198]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  111) Broadway Bridge [54]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  112) Metro North [30]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  113) Columbia University Rowing [119]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  114) Henry Hudson Bridge [177]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  115) Washington & Hudson River [163]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  116) Cloisters & Dyckman Marina [134]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  117) George Washington Bridge & 'The Little Red Lighthouse' [321]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  118) George Washington Bridge [365]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  119) Riverbank Park [257]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  120) Riverside Church [59]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  121) Riverside Park [47]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  122) 79th Street Boat Basin [42]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  123) Trump's Riverside South [168]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  124) West Side & Finish [76]

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The Henry Hudson (West Side Highway) Parkway comes back to ground level and we are at the passenger piers just north of 59th Street where we started. This is Manhattan by water. This is the old and new. On the waterfront, at least, the new is better. Someday, what you are seeing will be prime real estate. If you care to invest, we are sure someone is willing to sell. The bridges are not for sale.





Henry Hudson
(b. 1570 England – d. Hudson Bay, Canada 1611)
was an English explorer and navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay are named for Hudson. He was hired by the Muscovy Company in 1607, to find a waterway from Europe to Asia. Hudson made two trips (in 1607 and 1608) but failed to find a route to China. In 1607, he sailed to Spitzbergen (an island north of Scandinavia in the Arctic Ocean) and discovered Jan Mayen Island (an island off eastern Greenland). In 1608, he sailed to Novaya Zemlya (an island north of Russia in the Arctic Ocean).

He was hired by the Dutch East India Company in 1609 to try to find the Northwest Passage farther south. In his ship the Half Moon, Hudson sailed to Nova Scotia, and then turned and sailed south. He sailed into New York's harbor on Sept. 3, 1609 (Verrazano sailed by the area in 1524), and noted that it was an excellent harbor. He sailed up river (Hudson River) 150 miles and noted the fertile land, but realized it was not a route to India. His reports resulted in the Dutch settling the area.

A 1610-1611 trip through the Hudson Strait and into Hudson Bay ended in a mutiny after the ship was trapped there for a winter. In 1611, the crew left Hudson, his son, and seven crew members adrift in a small, open boat in Hudson Bay. They were never seen again.








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