Afoot in Connecticut 43 - Putnam Memorial State Park
Eric D. Lehman is the author of Bridgeport: Tales from the Park City, Hamden: Tales from the Sleeping Giant, and A History of Connecticut Wine. He teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Bridgeport and his series Afoot in Connecticut highlights the Nutmeg State's natural and historical treasures.
This episode finds Eric in Hamden in Putnam Memorial State Park in Redding.
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Driving from Brewster in New York to Danbury in Connecticut
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HURD STATE PARK HIKE in SOUTH HAMPTON CT
Needed someplace to hike on the Fourth of July, and found this park which I never heard of in all the years I've lived hear. Many spots with lush green life, and a great view of the Connecticut River at Split Rock. Some enjoy a great cook out near the river, and it smelled SO good!
Hurd State Park is located off of Route 151, in East Hampton, CT.
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New Haven - Connecticut USA
Imagens da Cidade de New Haven - Connecticut
*City of New Haven - Connecticut
É a segunda maior cidade do estado, localizando-se na região do nordeste americano denominada Nova Inglaterra. A cidade possui 54 967 residências, que resulta em uma densidade de 1 136,13 residências/km².
É conhecida por ser a sede da Universidade de Yale, a primeira cidade americana planejada, tendo sido inaugurada em 1638, e por ser o lugar de nascimento de várias personalidades famosas; dentre eles, o ex-presidente dos Estados Unidos, George W. Bush, o inventor Charles Goodyear, e os irmãos músicos Karen e Richard Carpenter.
Imagens: VelesHomais
Black Rock Park Lake
Short video of fog moving on Black Rock State Park pond. Relax.
Watertown, Connecticut
Talcott Mountain Simsbury CT
UAV flight over Talcott Mountain area including King Phillips Cave, Pinchot Sycamore, Heublein Tower and Tower Ridge Country Club
Driving Downtown 4K - Boston's Financial District - USA
Driving Downtown Neighborhoods - Financial District - Boston Massachusetts USA - Episode 6.
Starting Point: . Neighborhood: .
The Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts, United States is located in the downtown area near Government Center and Chinatown.
The Financial District also contains the headquarters of the mutual fund companies Fidelity Investments, Putnam Investments, and DWS Scudder Investments; the world headquarters for State Street Bank and Eastern Bank; accounting firms Wolf & Company, P.C., PricewaterhouseCoopers, RSM McGladrey and BDO USA, LLP; loan advisor The Debt Exchange; the law firms of Bingham McCutchen, Goodwin Procter, WilmerHale, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, and Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, PC; the local headquarters of Bank of America (formerly Fleet Bank) and Sovereign Bank; the Langham Hotel Boston and Hilton Hotel; and the local offices of Merrill Lynch and other brokerages.
Dewey Square, One Financial Center, and the plaza and towers housing the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston are located near South Station, adjacent to and just south of the area defined above. Also part of the Financial District are 33 Arch Street, One Federal Street, the First National Bank Building building, 100 Summer Street, and 101 Federal Street. The area contains many of Boston's highrise buildings in a fairly densely packed area, significantly more than the Back Bay which contains Boston's two tallest highrises, the Prudential Center and the John Hancock Tower.
Boston
Boston is the capital and largest city[8] of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
The city proper covers 48 square miles (124 km2) with an estimated population of 667,137 in 2015,[10] making it the largest city in New England and the 23rd largest city in the United States.[2] The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.7 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country.[5] Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 8.1 million people, making it the sixth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.
One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England.[12][13] It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U.S. independence from Great Britain, the city continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub, as well as a center for education and culture.[14][15] Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year.[16] Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public school, Boston Latin School (1635),[17] first subway system (1897),[18] and first public park (1634).
The area's many colleges and universities make Boston an international center of higher education,[19] including law, medicine, engineering, and business, and the city is considered to be a world leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.[20][21] Boston's economic base also includes finance,[22] professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, and government activities.[23] Households in the city claim the highest average rate of philanthropy in the United States;[24] businesses and institutions rank among the top in the country for environmental sustainability and investment.[25] The city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States,[26] though it remains high on world livability rankings.
J House Greenwich Hotel in Greenwich CT
Reservations: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J House Greenwich Hotel 1114 E. Putnam Ave. Greenwich CT 06830 Featuring a seasonal outdoor pool and restaurant, this Connecticut hotel is in Greenwich. Manhattan is 1 hour away by train. Free Wi-Fi access is available. Each room at J House Greenwich includes a 52-inch flat-screen TV and an iPad that controls air conditioning and room service. Along with a bathtub or shower, private bathrooms feature a 15” flat-screen TV, Malin and Goetz bath amenities and Frette linens. At this hotel, there is a 24-hour front desk and a bar. Other facilities at the hotel include luggage storage. The property provides free parking. Guests can enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner at J House, the on-site American restaurant. Cos Cob Harbor is a 4-minute drive from the hotel, Stamford train station is a 5-minute drive and Greenwich Point Park is a 14-minute drive away.
COS COB RIDERS PART ONE.
Awesome Ride With Cos Cob Riders.
New York photo Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal (GCT; also referred to as Grand Central Station) is a commuter (and former intercity) railroad terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. Built by and named for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger rail travel, it covers 48 acres (19 ha) and has 44 platforms, more than any other railroad station in the world. Its platforms, all below ground, serve 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100.
The terminal serves commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York State, and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut. Until 1991, the terminal served Amtrak, which moved to nearby Pennsylvania Station upon completion of the Empire Connection. The East Side Access project is underway to bring Long Island Rail Road service to the terminal.
Grand Central Terminal has intricate designs both on its inside and outside. In addition, it contains a vast interior main concourse. The terminal is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, with 21.9 million visitors in 2013.
Unlike other Metro-North stations, Grand Central Terminal is not owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but by a private company known as Midtown TDR Ventures.
The tracks are numbered according to their location in the terminal building. The upper-level tracks are numbered 11 to 42 east to west. Tracks 22 and 31 were removed in the late 1990s to build concourses for Grand Central North. Track 12 was removed to expand the platform between tracks 11 and 13 and track 14 is only used for loading a garbage train. The lower level has 27 tracks, numbered 100 to 126, east to west; currently, only tracks 102–112, and 114–116 are used for passenger service. Odd-numbered tracks are usually on the east side (right side facing north) of the platform; even-numbered tracks on the west.
Grand Central Terminal has both monumental spaces and meticulously crafted detail, especially on its facade.[6] In a February 2013 BBC News article, historian David Cannadine described it as one of the most majestic buildings of the twentieth century.[7] In 2013, Grand Central Terminal hosted 21.6 million visitors, putting it among the ten most-visited tourist attractions in the world.[8]
Its interior has restaurants, such as the Oyster Bar, and various fast food outlets surrounding the Dining Concourse on the level below the Main Concourse, as well as delis, bakeries, newsstands, a gourmet and fresh food market, an annex of the New York Transit Museum, and more than 40 retail stores. Among them are chain stores, including a Starbucks coffee shop, a Rite Aid pharmacy and, as of December 2011, an Apple Store.[9][10] Other chain restaurants include a Shake Shack.[11][12]
Grand Central Terminal's 49 acres (20 ha) basements are among the largest in the city.[13] This includes M42, a secret sub-basement under the terminal that contains the AC to DC converters used to supply DC traction current to the tracks. The exact location of M42 is a closely guarded secret and does not appear on maps, though it has been shown on the History Channel program Cities of the Underworld and a National Geographic special. Two of the original rotary converters were not removed in the late 20th century when solid-state ones took over their job, and they remain as a historical record. During World War II, this facility was closely guarded because its sabotage would have impaired troop movement on the Eastern Seaboard.[13][14][15] It is said that any unauthorized person entering the facility during the war risked being shot on sight; the rotary converters could have easily been crippled by a bucket of sand.[16] Abwehr (a German espionage service) sent two spies to sabotage it; they were arrested by the FBI before they could strike.[13]
The terminal is made primarily from granite. In fact, so much granite is used that the building emits relatively high levels of radiation.[17]
Midtown TDR Ventures has owned the station since 2006, when Argent Ventures transferred ownership of the station.[18] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that is the parent of Metro-North, holds a lease until 2274