Central Park NYC

TheTamshee says: Sal, the missus is doing the tourist thing in Central Park today. Maybe in the colder months I'll get the chance to skate on this very same pond. Photo dated: 1862

New York City

TheTamshee says: did you know that about one third of all of the battles of the Revolutionary War took place New York. NY became an independent state on July 9, 1776 and enacted its constitution in 1777. The state ratified the United States Constitution on July 26, 1788 to become the 11th state.

The pre-9/11 skyline of Lower Manhattan, August 2001