NYC -- The Starting LIne for the Lincoln Highway

After a few hours of rain yesterday morning, I started out for New York City.  New York was the Eastern Terminus of the Lincoln Highway, and trips across the transcontinental road began at Times Square in the city.  I took some wonderful pictures of the Manhattan skyline from Liberty State Park across the Hudson River in New Jersey.  This park also has views of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and it also has a 9/11 memorial called the "Empty Sky."  It has a beam from the Twin Towers, and its two large walls contain the names of those who died.

Once a driver drove the first mile of the LH from Times Square, they came to the river.  In the early 1900s, they had to take the ferry, but now drivers pass through the Lincoln Tunnel.  When they emerge, they were/are at Weehauken, New Jersey, where I took some more pics.  This place is Hamilton Park, near the spot where Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr fought their famous duel.

The Lincoln Highway has many different types of monuments to President Lincoln.  Many are statues, and there are all types of signs, both old and modern.

Mystic Lincoln, Jersey City

Downtown Newark

I ate supper at a Mexican restaurant in Rahway, New Jersey, called Beana's.  It was featured in the documentary about the Lincoln Highway that I saw on PBS years ago which inspired me to make this journey.  I think the girl who took my payment was one of the ones interviewed for that show.





On my way to Princeton to spend the night, I stopped for a few minutes at the Thomas Edison Tower and Museum in the town that bears his name.  This is where Edison's Menlo Park laboratory was located; he did much of his work on the light bulb here.  The tower is undergoing a MAJOR renovation; it's hard to tell that the top is actually a huge light bulb sculpture.  The museum was closed for the evening.