Day 16 - New York, NY

Flatiron Building

Another early start this morning as we needed to get the subway to Battery Park to catch the ferry to Liberty Island – once again timed tickets and the first of the day.

Waiting for the subway

Where is she?

On board the ferry

There she is!

We were on Liberty Island nice and early before the crowds.  I booked the tickets quite some time ago and I was very lucky to be able to secure tickets to climb up to the crown.  Out of the 10,000+ visitors each day only a couple of 100 crown tickets are released – it was only a couple of dollars extra on top of the ticket price so was well worth it.  This morning lots of people were trying to find out how they could get up to the crown as they hadn’t known about the pre-booking so I was really pleased (rather smug ) that I’d noticed this on the website.

Steps up to the Crown

Inside the crown!

There are 377 steps from the main lobby right up into the crown, so you know you’ve done it by the time you reach the top – once at the top the space is quite cramped and only room for about 4 or 5 people.  This week has been full of amazing experiences.

Once at the bottom of the statue we visited the museum which was extremely informative with the audio guide but we were starting to flag and had information overload so went off to find food before catching the ferry to Ellis Island and the Immigration Museum - another very interesting and informative visit.

Once we were back on dry land it was time to grab a couple of Citi bikes and pedal off to Brooklyn Bridge as I was really keen to cycle across it – brilliant fun.

Wall Street

Cycling across Brooklyn Bridge

NYPD scooters