- No Travel. We spent the morning resting, then went to the World Trade Center Memorial for the afternoon.
This is WTC 1, the first tower in the new World Trade Center complex in New York.
The entry to WTC 1, with access to the Observation Deck up on the top. We didn't go up. I am not sure if it is open yet.
The World Trade Center Memorial. The names of those lost in the attack are carved in stone around this pit sited at the base of the original Twin Towers. There is normally a waterfall here but it is shut down because of the cold, windy weather.
This sculpture is actually the roof of the new WTC Transit Center. It is intended to reflect a dove being released from the hands of a child. Despite the look, the steel is all new; there is no re-purposed materials from the Twin Towers. It is still under construction and this is unfinished as yet.
This is the WTC Museum. We didn't go in, partly because of the $24 per person admission fee, but more realistically because I didn't want to. This site is a tough one for me, as I worked in the building on some of my projects here in New York. I can still remember the first time I came up out of the Fulton Street subway, walked across the plaza, and into the main doors of Tower 1. I still can't watch video footage of that day without turning away as the planes hit the towers.
At the memorial.
That's NYC City Hall over there. We didn't get closer; we wanted to head back to Grand Central and then to the theater. Time is time.
Inside Grand Central Terminal. We had a pre-theater snack at Cipriani's Restaurant. It is on the mezzanine level in the grand hall of the station. You can see it in the picture, up those stairs.
At the Majestic Theater for Phantom Of The Opera.
Katherine is really looking forward to this.
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