New York: Day Six

You may be thinking; "What happened to Days 3, 4 and 5?" Well be patient grasshopper, they'll be coming soon. But on today, September 11th I felt that I needed to post this. I didn't know if we'd get to go to ground zero, but the night before we left, we had an opportunity to go. We went with with Carmen's sister and her husband. He works for a construction company so he had some cool insight into the crane incidents and he had worked on a few projects near the ground zero. The last time I went to New York, over 7 years ago, the towers were still standing, and I even got a good look at them as my plane flew into JFK from Seattle over Giants Stadium and lower Manhattan. I had no idea that would be the last time I'd see them that close. On that trip 7 years ago, besides my flight, I would only see the towers from the Whitestone Bridge.

The picture to the left is the 'progress that has been made so far. It's pretty pathetic if you ask me. But the politicization of the process of selecting a memorial and a new design for the freedom tower have apparently bogged down construction significantly. Hopefully they will have it finished by the 10th anniversary as Mayor Bloomberg is pushing for. We'll see.

The pictures at the top are on the fire station next to ground zero. It was a pretty impressive memorial and the pictures don't do it justice. As a side note, I think all the firefighters at the station were Irish because they talked like the policeman at the zoo in 'Lady and the Tramp'.

After we left, we went to the South Street Seaport and took some pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge (which didn't come out) and the waterfalls around the city which they have temporarily put up. It was pretty cool. The day was generally a cool day. We pretty much relaxed that day and hung out before we went to Manhattan. I may go into more detail about that later, but I really wanted to get something up today, before I go to work.