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I’ve put up a few more photos covering our trip to the UN building, a few from the Empire State Building and some outside NYPL. Just to prove it’s really there, there are some photos of the Gilmore Girls.

We’ve covered a lot in the last two days, and the weather has been seriously hot. It’s hard to believe how much energy it can take to walk even just a block or two.

I’ve been finding that New York isn’t portrayed very accurately in the Marvel movies. Liberty Island, and the statue are nothing like how they are portrayed in X-Men. For a start the flame is much smaller, and there’s no wall at the edge of the Island, it’s a fence. Though the visitors center does have the pieces of Iron that Magneto is fond of.

Time’s Square doesn’t have a huge, pompous, upper-class turn-of-the-century residential building with a neo-classical balcony where Spiderman’s arch-enemy (and best friend’s dad of course) might live. Nor does Manhattan have an L-track which inconvienently terminates in mid-air. Can’t say I’m suprised.