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12 October 2019

8 September New York City


It's a beautiful day to have a first taste of New York City. The train drops us into Penn station in the heart of Manhattan and we walk the length of Broadway to the Battery on the south tip of the island. Interesting fact; Broadway runs at a diagonal across Manhattan island and is an old Indian trail.
Little Italy

Supreme Court sqaure

On the way we see the Empire State Building, Flat Iron building, a farmers market, Little Italy with roadside tables, a bite of dim sum lunch in Chinatown and then on to the judicial and financial area. We couldn't pass the World Trade Center without pausing to view the new buildings and the memorials; where the bases of the twin towers had been are vanishing pools and surrounding the pools a marble wall inscribed with the names of everyone who perished on 11 September 2001.
WTC

9/11 Memorial

9/11 Museum













It's a Sunday (part of the reason for choosing this walk) and the offices are closed, roads quieter and time to meander down Wall Street, stroll past the Supreme Court and finally find ourselves at the Staten Island ferry. From here we could see the Statue of Liberty, but it was late in the afternoon by now. Time to take the subway back to Penn Station and catch the train to Port Washington. Fortunately the road from Port Washington station to the dinghy dock at the bottom of Main Street is down hill because our feet were tired and we were tired.


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