Steve, Thank you for posting these pictures of the Queen Elizabeth leaving New York for the last time.It is quite ironic of you posting these pictures of the Queen Elizabeth leaving New York for the last time because very soon the Cunard Line Ships which are the Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth 2 will no longer dock at the West Side of Manhattan Piers which are Piers 88,90 and 92 on the Hudson River,whenever these 2 ships are in New York.The QE2 and QM2 starting next April will then start to dock at Pier 12 in Brooklyn across the East River from Lower Manhattan.That means that the last Cunard crossing from Manhattan to Southampton will be aboard the Queen Mary 2 on Nov.1,2005 and arriving in Southampton on Nov.7,2005, and the last Cunard crossing from Southampton to Manhattan will be aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 on Jan.3,2006 and arriving in Manhattan on Jan.9,2006 and finally the last Manhattan call of the Cunard Line will be on Jan.15,2006 when the Queen Mary 2 leaves Manhattan for her South American Cruise.I'm not happy at the decision of the Carnival Corp. to dock the Cunard Line Ships in Brooklyn starting next April but me being the average Joe really don't have any say in the matter.At least next January 9,2006 I will have one final sailing from the West Side of Manhattan down the Hudson River aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 for the start the 2 week Cruise through the Panama Canal and then on to Los Angeles to see the Queen Mary in Long Beach.The sailings from the West Side of Midtown Manhattan are interesting because you do get to see historic sites.Such as Pier 59 where the Titanic was to haved docked and Pier 54 where the Carpathia docked carrying the victims of the Titanic tragedy and where the Lusitania left from for the last time in 1915.You don't get to see these Piers 54 and 59 sailing from Brooklyn.All you get from sailing from Brooklyn is a distant view of the Statue of Liberty and when the ship sails under the Verrazano Bridge.