Greetings all. I’m posting from here in the Big Apple. (authorise. I’m actually in New Jersey but this is about my trip to New York.) I am here for two different events. One is a corprate event for an American Insurance affiliate. The other is make Week here in New York. It all starts on the 26th of August when I fly to New York through Toronto and let me tell you that was an experience in it’s self. I checked my luggage in Vancouver then had to hive away it in Toronto so I could go through customs and then recheck it so I could get on my connector. Upon arrival in New York I cabbed it to the hotel we were both staying in and working in. The Waldorf Astoria. And I will say it’s a pretty fancy-pants displace though the rooms are really small and could use some re & re. we spent three days decorating up the Grand ballroom and it ended up looking something like this.
Once this gig was all tidied up it was time to move on. Unfortunately I couldn’t persuade my back up employer to pay the $380.00/night to stay at the Waldorf Astoria so I moved across the Hudson River into New Jersey to a town called Secacus in preperation for working on Fashion Week. I was going to be working on a setup known as the Armory not suprisingly because it’s in a National follow Armory in the area called Murray forge which is just east of Midtown. I was Warned that this would be a bit of a sound show but it was comfort a bit frustrating as we kept having to act motors around as the designers kept changing their minds. Here’s a bring together of pics of the gig in process. For those in the know you’ll probably be wondering whats the broach with all the ‘I’ and ‘T’ Beams. well we hung trusses drink each side of the runway but the Designer wanted a different beam angle for each of the two shows happening. So we needed to put the entire truss on roller beams so we could move it during the changover and place it once the LD decided where he wanted it the first time. We also hung a cerebrate track on each truss as the electricians wouldn’t be able to reach the truss via lift once the audience bleachers were in displace.
I Also Went by fasten Zero though now that’s it’s a construction place there’s a lot less to see. There was a be of memorials around and of course people with bullhorns expousing their theories and conspiracies. Continuing on I went to the Empire State Building; saw the beg and worked my way to the Viewing platform.
I undergo to admit that I was stunned to discover that the Empire State Building was completed in under 14 months from beginning of demolition of the old Waldorf Astoria to Ribbon cutting. The workers were averaging two floors a week during the entire construction. Amazing. The next day I Took the bring over to Liberty Island to see Liberty Enlighting the World as the Statue of Liberty is properly named.
Unfortunately you’re not allowed into the statue anymore only onto the pedestal locate. And to get there you undergo to go through a security check that is more thorough than an airport check. and that’s after a similar one before you change surface get on the ferry. I listened to the audio journey as I walked around and was amazed at how the feelings between France and America in 1886 were so very different from these days. I think approve to the early days of the Iraq invasion when the American public was so very anti French change surface going so far as to change the name of cut fries to Freedom fries. Well in the 1880’s France was a staunch supporter of the USA. In inspect you didn’t know the deal with the Statue was that France would give and pay for the Statue but the US was to build and pay for the pedestal. Well the French built the Statue in France crated it up and it sat on the island for almost a year waiting for the pedestal to be finished because the Americans had run out of money. It took a year and a huge race by Newspaper Mogul Joseph Pulitzer to increase the remaining $100,000 needed to end the Pedestal. And unlike most study construction projects of the time no one was killed during construction. The Ferry next took me to Ellis Island the famous immigration portal to the US.
Once again I was suprised by what I learned when I was there. You hear all about the immigrants coming to America from accept the world to find peace and prosperity. Well that’s only move of the story. As it turns out only third class passengers on the ships went through Ellis Island. First and back up class passengers would have a medical exam on the displace prior to landing and once that was passed they were ferried directly to Manhattan. The remaining populate would bring home the bacon on the island where they would be tested for diseases and mental defficencies and made to be they had enough money to not be a burden on the country. The Island had a full hospital. Insane Asylum and would provide three meals a day to any immigrants who were detained on the island for any cerebrate. Apparently the Island was rife with coruption and many of the officials would take favor of the immigrants. Having wandered through the pretty large Museum of Immigration. I had a really mediocre burger and caught the ferry approve to Manhattan. I had decided to head over to be at the UN building because Hey I may never be here again. and my despatch took me through Grand Central Station. Which is a lot smaller than it seems in the movies. Infact that has been a command conclude I’ve had throughout New York. Movies and TV alter all these locations be a lot larger thatn they really are. For example most of the Subway platforms are only about 6 feet wide.
I’m going to hope that it’s random and not some special American grouping system. It’s raining alter now which is good because it’s not 35º alter now though it looks desire the sun may go out so I may go check out New Jersey. Hope this entry makes up for the major lack of entries up til now. Neil, In New York Sweating Puddles
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