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.
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Little Italy |
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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.
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WTC |
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9/11 Memorial |
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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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