First thing Sunday morning, after brunch at the Carnegie Deli, we headed for the World Trade Center. Trade Center One is a truly impressive building. Note that the corners at the top are rotated ninety degrees from the corners at the base.
Each of the Twin Towers is now marked by one of these fountains. The names of each of the people who died in the building that was above the fountains are etched into the marble slabs surrounding each one. One of Ted's co-workers lost her husband here.
Engine Company 10, the first responder, is now a monument to those who died when the tower collapsed.
From there, it is only a few blocks to Trinity Church. This was the best photograph possible since much of the building was covered by scaffolds and shrouds.
It is, of course, still a house of worship, indeed a beautiful one.
In the graveyard. on one side of the church is the tomb of Alexander Hamilton. Albert Gallatin is interred on the other side. Probably fitting.
Robert Fulton lies next to Hamilton.
We walked a few blocks further to the Fed,
just around the corner from the NYSE. We both hoped for continued bull markets.
We then moved on to Soho and then back to our hotel to rest our aching feet for a while,
When hunger overcame our pain, we walked to the Stardust Diner for dinner. Mediocre food, but the servers are Broadway wannabes. Last year 16 of their number got a gig in a show.
Then a short walk just a few blocks toward Times Square,
and a walk in the other direction to Central Park. Back to the hotel to get ready to ride out the Hudson Valley to our coach Monday morning.
We've already started planning where we want to go and what we want to see the next time we go to the Big Apple. (Next year?)
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