Friday morning after breakfast at the Washington Square Restaurant, West 4th Street and 6th Avenue. RuthAnne, Katy, Owen, Michael, Peter and Clemens Washington Square Diner 150 West 4th Street New York, NY (212) 533-9306
The oculus mosaic at the 8th Avenue line's Chambers Street stop.
RuthAnne between a pair of eyes
We reach the WTC site. The entrance to the PATH trains is in the background. Ground Zero is to the viewer's left.
My first glimpse of Ground Zero.
View from the PATH station, looking southwest toward (left to right) the Deutsche Bank building (aka 130 Liberty Street, aka Bankers Trust Building), the 90 West Building and 1 World Financial Center. The Deutsche Bank building was badly damaged by falling debris and then by mold, and is being carefully dismantled. To me it looks like it's in an enormous funeral shroud. 90 West is a landmark building and can't be demolished. 1WFC was lightly damaged.
An example of the subtle banners that ring the viewing areas at the PATH station. From up close, the lettering is almost invisible.
The west side of 130 Liberty Street.
"The Sphere," a sculpture by German artist Fritz Koenig. It was originally installed at the World Trade Center in 1971. It survived the attack of September 11th and is now at Battery Park, a few blocks south of its original home. It's part of a temporary memorial to the victims of September 11th.
This is a bit of performance art in progress just outside the entrance to Castle Clinton National Park at the Battery. Ms. Liberty was recruiting passersby to hold the flag.
The other Ms. Liberty, as seen from the southwestern tip of Manhattan.
Ellis Island, from about the same place.
The East Coast Memorial in Battery Park, in memory of the 4,601 servicemen who lost their lives in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Their names are home towns are inscribed on 8 19-feet-high granity pylons.
A photo shoot. I wonder what for, and of whom?