WTC NYC Trip

[Norm]

Club bus trip today to the 9/11 Memorial in NYC. The memorial, a very moving place, saw the open pools where the twin towers once stood. Purposely done, at any angle, you can not see the bottom of the center squares. Read the name of a woman who perished with her unborn child. Very sad.

Memorial museum is not scheduled to open 'til the and of May.

There was one tree that withstood the falling towers, trying to keep it alive.

And the crowds, and this is early in the season and during a normal day, 27,000 visitors per.

To get into the memorial, just like boarding a flight, TSA-like checks before setting foot inside.

The new tower, is well, tall........amazing.

Did a little walking around Mid Town, Rock Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral (under renovation, 3 yr project) the hoighty toighty stores, FAO Schwarz, great day, but concrete canyons, won't be going back anytime soon, I miss my straight, flat, no traffic, country roads.

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[78SA]

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[Jeff '79]

I miss my straight, flat, no traffic, country roads.



We do that trip a few times a year, as my daughter lives there.
Like you said though, it's a cool place to visit, but I'll take home in the sticks over that every time.
Great pics! :seasix:
We actually did mass the week before Christmas in the Cathedral. I payed more attention to the web of scaffolding than I did the mass.. That is an amazing undertaking. :cool1:

[Grey Ghost]

Last time I was there in 2000. Dang near got lost just walking around. All the bldgs. looked the same to me and didn't have a street map. Had the real deal Waldorf Salad.

[mrvette]

Early 80's Maiden Lane, next to Wall St. Fed Reserve......which for all that so called sophistication NYC is supposed to have, the Feds STILL had 110 VDC power right next to the 110 VAC outlets, one was red the other blue.....they generated their own 110 VDC from a steam line fed by Conn Ed......leftovers from the daze of Edison yet.....

I hear stories of all the underground infrastructure that dates back to the 1800's.....as in Holy SHIT man......

A daughter of an old buddy had the second plane fly over hear head into the tower, she was one of the walkers in white chaulk that morning.....

She and her hubby are in such demand, that they both making over 500k each from different houses and live in Manhattan.....


Years ago, I met with a young couple who spent 3 MILLION bux on renovating some non nondescript apt they had in Manhattan she was a cousin of my ex........they drove a new Porch.....eh'......

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[Ruffy]

Too lazy to google and I generally haven't paid attention but what is the significance of the bottomless center squares?

[Norm]

Too lazy to google and I generally haven't paid attention but what is the significance of the bottomless center squares?


When the rescuing was done and the mountains of crumpled steel cleared away, a crater seven stories deep was left behind.

The nerve center of what is arguably the most important city in the world was a massive wound.

But that gash, a giant hole descended to bedrock, was part of what would inspire a new vision for the World Trade Center in New York.

The physical and emotional void created by the terrorist attacks has become the defining characteristic of the master plan for the site, an attempt to serve the needs of both remembrance and revitalization.

Called “Reflecting Absence,” the memorial is a pair of immense, black holes set into the square footprints of the fallen towers. Water plunges about four stories to shallow reflecting pools that mirror the sky, reminding us of the vacancy above.

Read more from Journal Sentinel: Ground zero memorial, an unflinching confrontation with loss - JSOnline (http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/129460283.html#ixzz2wohWI0Bc)
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