Today was the unmissable trip to the statue of liberty. The plan was to get up real early and try and
beat the queues. The plan only partially succeeded. There wasn't a queue to buy the tickets but still over an hour once the ticket had been purchased before embarkation on the boat. My Top Tip:
Get to Battery Park and buy your ticket - make sure you get the ticket that gives you access to the monument base - GET THERE for around 0800. You can be on the first boat, and then when you get to the island go straight to the queue to go the monument base. Security is very tight. Don't take anything that you don't need to because you can only take camera's onto the monument, everything else has to go into a locker - $1 bill and your finger print required. I got heartily fed up of taking my trouser belt off and even my camera bag was deemed too big to go onto the monument!

TOP TIP number 2. Take a helicopter ride around New York - the New York New York trip from Liberty Helicopters was the trip that we did and Top Tip 2A is go from the WEST HELIPORT. The queues are smaller, they are less booked up. We managed to book and fly within the hour.