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Getting ready for take off for our Manhattan helicopter tour
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Liberty Island from above
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Financial District with Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge in the background
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Aerial view of Midtown and Lower Manhattan
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Empire State Building with 432 Park Avenue nearing completion in the background
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That's where I live! My apartment is on the 27th floor of the smaller one of the two pinkish buildings in the foreground
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Central Park including the Reservoir, with Wards Island in the background and The Beresford in the foreground
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Another view of my apartment building; on this one you can actually see my apartment (red arrow)
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Empire State Building as seen from above the Hudson River
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The new World Trade Center
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Battery Park with Castle Clinton
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17 State Street overlooking Battery Park
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Our pilot getting ready for her next flight
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Crazy creature with shovel-like mouth at the Natural History Museum
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...yes, I was indeed wondering about that!
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And another interesting creature...
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This one has a nose like a giant vacuum cleaner
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A recent addition to the collection: Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island Tortoise, who died in 2012, aged 102 years
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Awesome diorama showing a cackle of hyenas
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Another great diorama
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Cheetahs in a diorama
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The Ramptones' Organic Roots Octet playing at Jazz at Lincoln Center
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Two Sandras and one Lisa, and the Big Apple as backdrop