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The Staten Island ferry 'John F Kennedy' swings past the Statue of Liberty on a westward run. There may be no such thing as a free lunch but the Staten Island trip does not incur a charge

The cheap way to see the Statue of Liberty and the New York Skyline is to take the Staten Island ferry. It's about an hour for the return trip and best of all it's free!

The Hudson Avenue Generating Station (the Station) was constructed in 1922 and is currently serving as a steam and peak capacity electric generating plant that is owned and operated by Con Edison. The 13-acre facility, located in the Vinegar Hill section of Brooklyn, New York and fronting on the East River, manages over 10 million gallons of petroleum storage capacity including No. 6 fuel oil, No. 2 fuel oil and kerosene. The Station supplies nearly 3 million pounds of steam an hour to Manhattan, as well as electric power for customers throughout Con Edison’s service area.

The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-storey steel-framed building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city at 20 floors high, and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street - the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling. The fascia is limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terracotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise.

The Sherry-Netherland is a 38-storey apartment hotel located at 781 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 59th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was designed and built by Schultze & Weaver with Buchman & Kahn. The building is 560 feet high, and was noted as the tallest apartment-hotel in New York City when it opened in 1927.

If you like water tanks then the United States is the place to be. This plantation is on a commercial building in New York.

In 1860 H. C. F. Koch & Co. opened its first store in Greenwich Village, New York, selling dry goods and fancy goods, and in 1875 moved onto Sixth Avenue.In 1891 the business moved to Harlem after Henry Koch commissioned William H. Hume to design a grand new store. This was an extensive five storey, fireproof building in brick, stone and steel. In 1893 the store was enlarged and on September 24 an advertisement announced that the additions to and alterations in their magnificent establishment are now completed. A nearly seamless sixth floor provided another acre of floor space and ten new departments. The business continued until 1932 by which time the neighbourhood had greatly changed. Today the Koch building clings on whilst most of the adjacent commercial buildings have been demolished. Lots more about the business and building can be found here: daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-1891-koch-co-bldg-no-136-west-125th.html

The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-storey steel-framed building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city at 20 floors high, and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street - the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling. The fascia is limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terracotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise.

The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-storey steel-framed building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city at 20 floors high, and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street - the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling. The fascia is limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terracotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise.

The fire house for Engine 6 is at 49 Beekman Street in New York. Being close to the World Trade Centre and being fitted with a high power pump to reach up 100 floors, the engine was one of the first to respond to the 9/11 attacks. Only one of the five men on duty that morning survived the collapse of the North Tower. The engine was also destroyed - the remains are now displayed at The New York State Museum in Albany as part of a permanent tribute to all those who lost their lives at the WTC on that day.

A visit to the former Hathern Station Brickworks in Leicestershire yielded a surprise in this brick which is a product of the Harry Brigham & Bros yard on the Hudson River at East Kingston, New York state. Brickmaking commenced here in 1904. How did it come to be in the UK? The answer is that there is still design undertaken here for terracotta restoration work and the brick was attached to the back of a piece that had been shipped over from a building in New York so that a replacement could be made by Shaws of Darwen who maintain a design section here after the demise of the Hathern operation when Ibstock closed the site.