Top of the Rock & State Island Ferry

My dear friend Cordelia Swann who lives in London wanted to shoot some footage for a film she was making, so I went along to Top of the Rock (30 Rockefeller Plaza, formerly the GE Building and the RCA Building). She also wanted to film from the Staten Island Ferry. 3:52 -- Cordelia Swann and her cousin Max Prum. Gorgeous views of lower Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty with late sun behind, "The scallop-edged waves in the twilight." 20:25 -- The fish in the Staten Island Terminal

Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.

From Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
Others will see the islands large and small;
Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.

00:00 -- Top of the Rock
03:46 -- Trip to Staten Island
20:29 -- Tropical Fish at Staten Island Ferry Terminal
24:24 -- Return trip to Manhattan