Photos from New-York

The region was inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans when it was discovered in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown. He named it 'Nouvelle Angoulême'. In 1614, the Dutch founded a fur trading settlement, later called 'Nieuw Amsterdam', on the southern tip of Manhattan. The city only took its final name when the English took it in 1664.

Manhattan from the Staten Island ferry

Manhattan by night seen from Brooklyn (see more night photos)

looking up in Manhattan

Manhattan car park

Restaurant in "Little Italy" (Manhattan)

View from Rockefeller tower at dusk
looking south towards the Empire State Building

The Jacques Marchais Tibetan centre on Staten Island

Park in Manhattan

The Brooklyn bridge (see more photos of bridges)

The Astor Court in the Metropolitan Museum
(replica of a Ming style scholar's garden)

Sunset reflecting on Manhattan buildings
view from the New Jersey side of the Hudson river

Fireworks over the Hudson river
on the occasion of Fleet week (sailors returning to port)
(see more night photos)

Bridge in Central Park (see more photos of bridges)

South tip of Manhattan and Staten Island ferry

In Greenwhich village : archguitar player

Harbour (North Cove) and World Financial Center

Shop stall in China Town

Time Square

Ground Zero : the site of the World Trade Center
where the Twin Towers used to stand

The south coast of Long-Island before landing in JFK
(more photos from planes here)

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