The Met Life Clocktower.  Why does Met Life have a clocktower?  Because they can.

A loverly shot of the Flatiron Building.  One of my favorites from our trip.

I so hate construction.  That's Washington Square Arch under there, by the way.

Just a nice, colorful, neighborhoody shot.  That is all.

A charming, quiet street in Greenwich Village.  That is all.

The famous Cherry Lane Theatre, started in 1924 by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and home to many a David Mamet production.

75 1/2 Bedford Street (the middle house in the pic), the narrowest house in Manhattan coming in at a whopping 9.5 feet wide.  It has been home to Cary Grant and John Barrymore, and Edna St. Vincent Millay lived here during the '20s.  Yup, lots o' Edna 'round these parts...

This unassuming building houses Chumley's, a speakeasy during Prohibition where the term "86 it" originated (the address is 86 Bedford St.).  A haunt of Jack Kerouac, e.e. cummings, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc.  We didn't go in, but it's apparently much the same now as it was in the '20s, both inside and outside, right down to several secret exits and the lack of a sign.

Well, lack of a "real" sign, anyway, this was scribbled next to the door.  They probably took it down when lunch was over.  :)

This sign rocks.  We don't have "NO HORN BLOWING" signs in Wisconsin.

We just accidentally stumbled upon The Bitter End, of Burlap to Cashmere's "Live at the Bitter End" CD fame, as we were walking through the Village.  What sweetness.

A funky-cool-looking building at NYU.  I just liked it.

Washington Mews, an old, old, old street with houses that used to be stables.  Very quaint.  I love that there are places like this in New York City.

Okay, this is an attempt to illustrate the ridiculosity that is Starbucks in Manhattan.  Remember in the movie "Best in Show" when two of the characters are talking about two Starbucks being across the street from each other?  If you click to see the larger version of this photo, you can see absolute proof that this joke originated in reality.  The Starbucks in the foreground is obvious, but in the background on the left, under the traffic lights, you can see some green lettering (which you can actually read in the big version).  Yup.  Another Starbucks.  Right near Uri's apartment there were literally three separate Starbucks within a three-block span of each other.  Unbelievable.

New York City Municipal Building.  Much more impressive than City Hall, which is dinky in comparison.

Eastern Lower Manhattan and South Street Seaport as seen from the western end of the Brooklyn Bridge (at sunset.  Ish.)

Manhattan Bridge as seen from the Brooklyn Bridge.

Josh looking very nice and Beth with her eyes shut.  We had a lot of that on this trip.  I will let our location remain a secret.

Midtown Manhattan seen from... you guessed it!  The Brooklyn Bridge!

This is what Times Square looks like when you're actually in it and not 14 blocks away.  Looking north.

And looking south, the view we had on New Year's Eve.  The Ball was on the middle horizontal-stripey building right above all the video screens stacked on top of one another (the top one saying "DISCOVER CARD" above it).

Ah, Anderson Cooper, one of my many loves.  Like I'm not going to take a picture of a giant ad with his face on it.  ;)

The globe sculpture outside the Trump Tower at Columbus Circle.

The Rose Center for Earth and Space (this is the building seen from the outside--just gorgeous), part of the Museum of Natural History.  We should've gone, but we didn't have time.  :(