The highlight of Atlantic Highlands was a trip to Best Buy to have the Geek Squad fix the computer. Mission accomplished. Then, Thursday, the 21st in the early morning mist we headed for New York City. After a short passage we could see the skyline and passed under the Verrazano Bridge, the Narrows, connecting Staten Island to Brooklyn.
Strange how moving through the waterways you meet up with people again. As we came under the Verrazano Bridge LITCHFIELD LADY was just ahead of us having docked over near Raritan Bay the night before.
With the morning ferrys going past on all sides we entered New York Harbor and passed Governor's Island on our port (left side). A spectacular view of the lower Manhattan Island. Just had to go see the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Brooklyn Bridge and a view Northeast up the East River, between Manhattan Island and Brooklyn on Long Island.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land, Here at our sea-washed, sunset-gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beaconed hand Glows world-wide welcome, her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin-cities frame."Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she, with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore; Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door." November 2, 1883 . . . Emma Lazarus
Back across the Hudson River to the site of the Twin Towers, a prayer, then North on the Hudson.
Passing under the George Washington Bridge could not help but notice the traffic was moving at about the same pace we were, 8-11 mph.
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