Tuesday, 22 October
Bought tickets for one of the HOHO buses and did a bit of hopping on and off as well as quite a lot of walking. First it was Grand Central Station, where I was interested to see a sectioned off area with soldiers scanning the crowd - and also being helpful with directions. Just a few doors on was the Chrysler building, my favourite NY building. Unfortunately it was shrouded in mist so we couldn’t see all the way to the top. Today was drizzly and misty all day but at least it didn’t bucket down.
A few blocks brought us to the Empire State Building, also disappearing into cloud. What we could see at street level was pretty unprepossessing.
Our next stop was at Battery Park for the Jewish Museum, which was closed. We walked from there to the World Trade Centre Memorial, an incredibly moving place with a square pool for each of the two towers and the names of those killed engraved around the edges. There were many firemen, police and emergency workers listed, who rushed in to help and lost their lives. Part of the complex is The Oculus, a train station and World Trade Centre shopping Mall with an amazing ribbed design.
Back on the bus for a very damp and windy ride back to Stop 1, just across from our hotel. We had a drink and a nibble for Edison Hour at our hotel (Hotel Edison) and then it was dinner at Sardi’s, a restaurant famed for its caricatures of theatre people through the years. Most of them we didn’t know but there were a few very familiar faces.
Another busy day.Great photos!
ReplyDeleteMore icons. Love the noises in the traffic video. And at last...an atmospheric aperitif, complete with tapas??!!
ReplyDeleteWe also found the WTC memorial incredibly moving even though the surrounding buildings were not complete back then. We spoke to one of the volunteers about his experience of the attack; it made it all too real and personal.
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