We hopped on the Metro subway train Thursday morning along with hundreds
of other commuters to New York. Thank you to a nice young man in the subway who
showed us how and where to buy a MetroPass. It took us under the Hudson River and into
downtown New York. The subway is much cheaper than the ferry and it took us to
Times Square, which is where we needed to be to pick up our tour packages.
With passes in hand we boarded the big red bus for a narrated tour around Downtown New York (one of four different tours to take). There were 15 stops on this ‘red line’ tour, and people were getting off and on at all of these stops, but we just sat tight and looked and listened. There were many sights along the way, some are:
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| The iconic Empire State Building - 102 stories! |
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| Flatiron Building is a 22 story triangular building |
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| One World Trade Centre also known as Freedom Tower is the tallest building in New York. It has 104 floors above ground and another 5 below. |
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| Trinity Church is nestled in the heart of the Financial District. |
We ended up back in Times Square about 2 hours later.
Like so many others who visit New York, the first thing we wanted to see was the iconic Empire State Building. It soars 1,450 feet in the air and was the world’s tallest building from 1931 until 1970.
The 86th floor observatory. which is 1,050 feet in the air. gives you these views of Midtown Manhattan!
High on our list of ‘things to do in New York’ was to visit the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and although it was at the other end of the city we decided it was time for us to ‘get used to’ the subway system. So underground we went, and came up for air at the World Trade Center Transportation Hub which opened only two days prior to our visit. This in itself is amazing. It rivals Grand Central Station in size, and includes a wide variety of retail stores and restaurants.
This ‘Oculus’ is said to resemble a bird being released from a child’s hand. I don’t quite see it, but maybe you do?
From here we walked over to the 9/11 Memorial
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, located at the World Trade Center, honors the 2,983 people killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.
The Memorial consists of two reflecting pools set in the footprints of the Twin Towers (the names of all the victims are listed around these two pools)
and a plaza of trees, including the Survivor Tree.
The Museum tells the story of the events of 9/11 through artifacts that range in scale from the monumental to the intimate. It tells stories of loss, compassion, reckoning and recovery.
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| Memory Wall - depicts the color of the sky the morning of 9/11. There are no two the same color. |
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| NYFD Ladder Company 3 received some of the heaviest casualties of any fire company in New York losing most of its men. |
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| melted beam So much memorabellia - I can only just touch on it. No words to describe the sadness and grief - it was chilling just being there! |
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