Pictures From New York City
I took the train from where I live on Long Island into Manhattan on 10-27-02 to do a little hiking and to visit the Museum of Natural History. I decided to take the subway up to the museum from Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station). . It is about 48 blocks, and I intended to walk back from the museum to Penn on my way home, to get some more pictures. I rode the train up to 70th street and walked the 11 blocks to the museum. I took this picture of the subway train I was on. I had to raise my camera high over my head and snap the picture, as the car was packed as you can see. I am happy to report no one attacked me or tried to rob my camera after that brazen act.
This was a very ornately decorated church. They just dont build them like they used to anymore. Interestingly, the doors in the center were encased in glass. I am sure it was some type of protective measure, but I was unsure of the reason for it, as they appeared identicle, if only slightly larger to the doors on either side of them. Incidentally, this is a very wealthy area of Manhattan, as I walked I heard several people talking about their acting jobs, and I saw one or two faces that looked familiar, although I couldnt definitely place them.
This is the front of the museum. It is also elaborately decorated, you can just make out the huge bronze sculpture of Teddy Roosevelt riding his horse in the front. The museum itself is tremendous, only a very small portion of it is visible here. It ranges far to either side of the entrance and goes back a considerable distance as well. But this picture should give you a good idea of the height of the exhibit directly inside of the doors...
These were the skeletons of some type of sauropod dinosaur (the largest one), its child and a velociraptor. It is just incredible that creatures were able to grow so large, the photograph really does not do them justice. Even the Velociraptor was bigger than I had anticipated, while perhaps only slightly taller than a 6 foot man, it would still have indeed been a formidable predator in its day.
