The Heckscher playground in Central Park | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0340.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0336.jpg) | My mom, on the swing | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0345.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0347.jpg) | Really nice sounding group, at the Bethesda Terrace | | This lady was making gigantic bubbles, and collecting donations |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0351.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0355.jpg) | | | At the model boat pond. We met a guy who made a very accurate model of a boat that he found in an anime cartoon. He let both Peter and Kenny control it. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0356.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0360.jpg) | These are some other models built by the same guy | | At the Alice in Wonderland statue - pretty crowded! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0364.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0368.jpg) | | | A huge pile of plowed snow, melting. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0370.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_eric_0581.jpg) | Sheep Meadow | | At the FAO Schwartz store |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0372.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0375.jpg) | Along the High Line park | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0376.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0379.jpg) | Lots of construction going on nearby - from the billboards, it seems like living close to the High Line park is very popular | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0400.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0406.jpg) | The lines, people waiting to get to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. We passed. | | Instead, we took the Staten Island Ferry. Still had some good views, and it was free! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0412.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0411.jpg) | The 9/11 memorial in Staten Island. Lots of firefighters and police officers were from Staten Island. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0417.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0421.jpg) | The view on the way back from Staten Island | | At the 9/11 memorial in Manhatten |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0422.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0423.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_20150406_171513120.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_20150406_172825190_hdr.jpg) | View from the dining area at our hotel, where they had a little reception every day at 5. Great place to hang out for a while | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0427.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0429.jpg) | At Grand Central Station | | At the Rockefeller Center |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0453.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0441.jpg) | View towards Central Park | | View towards the Statue of Liberty |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0444.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0451.jpg) | Peter in front of the Empire State Building | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0455.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0460.jpg) | Deliveries were big business at the Turkish restaurant we had lunch at | | At the New York Public Library, there was a roving art cart for kids, where Peter made lots of things. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_20150407_191133683.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0461.jpg) | We walked to the nearest Whole Foods, at Columbus Circle, for some breakfast items. I've never seen a grocery store that crowded. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0465.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0472.jpg) | The animal show at the Bronx Zoo | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0475.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0482.jpg) | | | Walking towards the New York Botanical Garden, where I met Brian Boom, who I worked for 25 years ago. Things looked vaguely familiar. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0483.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0484.jpg) | | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_20150408_143814390_hdr.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0485.jpg) | | | One of the plants I collected at the El Verde Research Station, 25 years ago! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0486.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0487.jpg) | This one happened to be out as well - a plant collected on Captain Cook's voyage by Joseph Banks | | One of the workrooms at the botanical gardens, that I spent a lot of time in |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0490.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0493.jpg) | At the Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0499.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0501.jpg) | Walked by the Alice in Wonderland statue again...this time it was far less crowded | | At the Musuem of Natural History. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0503.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0512.jpg) | There were far too many exhibits like this one | | Times Square. We had enough pretty quickly. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0511.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_eric_0639.jpg) | | | A street artist, using some special spray paint techniques to create outer-space type images. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0519.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0524.jpg) | A beautiful sunny day in Central Park | | Belvedere Castle |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0536.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0544.jpg) | Peter and Kenny both spent time in emptied fountains, looking for coins. They were usually pretty successful | | On the Brooklyn Bridge |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0542.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0549.jpg) | | | At the United Nations, cross stitch portraits of the various heads |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0563.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0566.jpg) | At Bryant Park, behind the New York Public LIbrary | | There were also ping pong tables |
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| ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_img_0571.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2015/04-04-2015-newyork/gallery_eric_0644.jpg) | | | The elevator at the Apple Store | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |