Thursday 24 May New York
Pouring with rain when we woke
however went out and had pleasant breakfast with Michelle’s Irish friends and
then Sinead and Michelle dropped us off at the ferry terminal again. Still
torrential rain in Manhattan but walked down Wall St to Trinity Church by 12.30
where communion service was in progress
with about 50 people in congregation.
Then we continued a little further
to 9/11 memorial where we had timed tickets for 1.30 pm. Very long queue
outdoors in pouring rain waiting to go
thru the security checkpoint ( which was inside a building) which meant all bags thru scanners and people
thru the screening machines and it was a bit of a shambles. Fortunately they
didn’t require us to take shoes off. However I think I lost my favourite red
“Ranger” yachting cap there in the scrum around the scanners.
The memorial is all outdoors (
museum is still being built) and consists of
two big square pools on the footprint of the North and South towers,
water runs down the side of the pool and then disappears into a second big
square hole in the middle. The names of all the people who died are incised in
the bronze panel around the edges of the pools. There are also dozens of trees
planted on the site which will eventually be an open space between all the new
buildings that are going up around it. It was quite weird being at a disaster
site that was so closely documented at the time and I thought how scared the
people must have been who were in all the other
buildings which were really quite close to the towers, as well as those
actually in the towers.
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911 Memorial South Pool
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| 911 Inscriptions around pool |
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Helen at 911 memorial
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| Lyndsay among trees at 911 memorial |
Back to Trinity Church to eat
lunch out of the rain and to have a good look around this very beautiful and
historic church in the heart of Wall St.
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| Trinity Churchyard |
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| Cherub from St Mary Le Bow London |
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| Trinity Church Interior |
The headed over to Federal Hall where
George Washington gave his inaugural presidential address, weird to have a
national park in the middle of a city !!
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| Nap in Federal Hall |
Found subway 2/3 line and with
only one small false move at 34th St ( instead of at 42nd
St) managed to get ourselves onto 7 line to Queens, off at 52nd
/Lincoln stop on a raised line with dozens of steps from station down to the street.
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