The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge – because its Manhattan end is located between 59th and 60th Streets – or simply the Queensboro Bridge, is a bridge over the East River in New York City that was completed in 1909. It connects the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens with Manhattan. (Source: Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge- Wikipedia)

40,474 Unique Visitors (WordPress install to Yellowecho)
38,158 Unique Visitors (HTML section of Yellowecho)- Average 113 unique visits per day

May was a very high traffic month for Yellowecho in 2012. If you click on the above images it details the highest traffic days to Yellowecho.

Back in 2009 after a link at StumbleUpon Yellowecho saw a huge spike in traffic.

View link and image graph from April/ May 2009:

http://www.yellowecho.com/site/2009/05/06/stumpleupon-2/

Lucy was adopted from a rescue shelter located in Manhattan and the rescue shelter named her Lucy. The City caught her roaming the streets of Manhattan.

I first saw Lucy while she was being walked by a volunteer of the rescue shelter in the ‘Little Italy’ section of Manhattan. As I walked up Mott Street I first noticed the volunteer dog handler wearing a light blue t-shirt walking a small black lab wearing a vest that stated “Adopt ME”. Both Lucy and this person was a block over from of me. I then spotted them on 2 consecutive intersections as we walked in the same direction but on a different block. The dog was very good with children and even sat and gave paw in a gentle manner to a child. After walking a few blocks north and seeing the dog on the adjoining street; I turned around and walked south only to see the volunteer and the dog do the same. I now decided to walk over the block to meet and pet the dog. The handler stated the dog’s name was Lucy. The volunteer was very nice and was from France originally. Lucy was very good.

A day later we went back to the rescue shelter and adopted Lucy. Lucy was about 5 months old.

Lucy can do many tricks for children now- she can: turnaround, roll-over, back-up, smell, sit, sit-up, find a ball, lay-on-back, give-paw, and say-thank-you (which is take a bow on front legs).

The top photo shows a person walking on the pedestrian walkway under a tower of the Williamsburg Bridge.

The other two image show traffic coming from Manhattan into Brooklyn. The Williamsburg Bridge has a lot graffiti along the pedestrian walkway.

Page Loads: 29,754 / Unique Visits: 14,195 / First Time Visits: 13,753 / Returning Visits: 442

Single Highest Day:

Sunday September 11th 2011- 1,211 page views / 694 unique visitors

Battery Park and the Staten Island Ferry are located very near to the southern tip of Manhattan.

There are so many plaques, memorials, statues, artwork, and other places of interest that these photos are just a small part of what is located in Battery Park and the Esplanade.

One of my favorite images from this grouping is of the Korean War Memorial.

Photographs include:

Battery Park
Battery Park is a 25-acre public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The Battery is named for artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city’s early years in order to protect the settlement behind them. (Source: Wikipedia- Battery Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_Park)

Castle Clinton
Castle Clinton or Fort Clinton, once known as Castle Garden, is a circular sandstone fort now located in Battery Park. Over its active life, it has also functioned as a beer garden, exhibition hall, theater, public aquarium, and finally today as a national monument. (Source: Wikipedia- Castle Clinton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Clinton_National_Monument)

John Ericsson Statue
John Ericsson (July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor and mechanical engineer. He is remembered for designing the ironclad USS Monitor.(Source: Wikipedia- John Ericsson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ericsson)
The statue of John Ericson holds a model of the USS Monitor in his hand.
USS Monitor was the first ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Source: Wikipedia- USS Monitor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monitor)

American Merchant Mariners Memorial
The American Merchant Mariners’ Memorial was built in 1991. Designed by the sculptor Marisol Escobar, this memorial is located just south of Pier A on a rebuilt stone breakwater. It is a representation in bronze of four merchant seamen with their sinking vessel after it had been attacked by a U-boat in World War II. The design includes one of the seamen in the water, submerged with each high tide.
(Source: Wikipeida- City Pier A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Merchant_Mariners%27_Memorial)

The great aspect of this memorial is as the high/ low tide change, the man’s head in the water is either above or below the tide water.

Korean War Memorial
This monument in Battery Park, north of Castle Clinton, honors military personnel who served in the Korean Conflict (1950-1953).
(Source: NYC Parks http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/veterans)

Battery Park Esplanade
The Esplanade runs the entire length of Battery Park City, along the Hudson River from Stuyvesant High School on the north end all the way south to Historic Battery Park.
(Source: http://www.batteryparkcity.org/page/popup/esplanade.html)

Freedom Tower (One WTC)
One World Trade Center (more simply known as 1 WTC, and formerly known as the Freedom Tower), is the lead building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan of New York City. The 105-story supertall skyscraper is being constructed in the northwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, occupying the location where the original 8-story 6 World Trade Center once stood.
(Source: Wikipedia- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center)

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A breakdown of the locations that are depicted in the photographs:

Brooklyn Bridge (in the background are the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge)
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. (Source: Wikipedia.org)

Deutsche Bank 9/11 Memorial Fountain
Deutsche Bank 9/11 Memorial Fountain commemorates bank employees who were killed on Sept. 11, 2001, and, more abstractly, take the place of the fountain at the base of the former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street. That fountain, the setting of Ophelia’s drowning in the 2000 movie version of “Hamlet,” was destroyed on 9/11. (Source: NYTimes.com)

FDNY Engine Company 4\ Ladder Company 15 and their 9/11 Plaque

Police Museum of NYC

Elevated Acre
Located at 55 Water Street (between Old Slip and Broad Street), the Elevated Acre offers views of the East River, Ellis Island, Brooklyn Bridge, South Street Seaport, and Brooklyn Heights.

Vietnam Memorial NYC
www.vietnamveteransplaza.com
A quarter of a million New Yorkers answered the call to serve during the Vietnam War. This memorial to their bravery and sacrifice recognizes their service and preserves the names and voices of a generation.

Staten Island Ferry Terminal
www.siferry.com
The Staten Island Ferry provides 20 million people a year (60,000 passengers a day not including weekend days) with ferry service between St. George on Staten Island and Whitehall Street in lower Manhattan. The ferry is the only non-vehicular mode of transportation between Staten Island and Manhattan.