New York - East Coast Experience - Day 4

We wake up and its Easter!!! Happy bunny day...



We get ready and literally run out of the hotel and head to New York... we decided today we would go to World Trade Center, Coney Island and Time Square...

Remember we have no car, so we were all about public transportation... We took trains, subways, city buses, cabs and walked... we walked a lot....

5-7 minutes from our hotel was the Path Station. It went straight from NJ to NY World Trade Center in about 5 minutes... damn, doesn't get better than that.

Isn't this the coolest underground escalator ever?? Just dug all the neon lights...



Once we got off the Path Train at WTC and went up to the ground floor... we walked out and we were at Ground Zero.

All I can say is wow... just standing there was unnerving... and surreal... I could not believe I was standing there... my stomach was doing flip flops...

We walked all around the perimeter of Ground Zero... they had a Blue Tarp all around it... but I was able to get a few shots of the building going on....

As we made our way to the street there was a church across the way... Turns out this was St Paul's Chapel... a refuge for the wounded during 9/11... this place was something to walk through... the mood was somber, quiet and tender... everyone spoke soft... lots of talk of where they were when it happened and how they felt... stories of how it affected them, there neighbors and loved ones... some knew people that died or knew of people that knew of those that died... it was like a movie... but not...

It was truly a miracle this place was still standing... It was a gorgeous church... After visiting St Paul's aka 'Unwavering Spirit: Hope and Healing at Ground Zero' we went to the other side of Ground Zero and visited the actual Tribute Center...

Oh my... walking through this place was like re-living the past all over again... they had voice boxes you could play and listen to actual voices of that day... videos that played of all the events of that day... speeches were being given... room after room of artifacts, pictures and memories... I finally had to get out of there... my heart could not stand it anymore, neither could Cody... there were boxes of tissues
everywhere... it was very difficult to walk through... I would have gotten more pictures, but somehow it felt wrong to snap pictures of everything while I walked thru... I used discretion and felt it was respectful to reserve being a shutterbug during this experiance.

No other way to tell the story then this video I made... this is mainly the buildings and what I could get of where the towers stood...

If you feel even an ounce of what we did being there... than this will be worth watching...

We entered the World Trade Center Financial Building which still stood and that's how I was able to look down into it and get those last pictures I did...

http://www.wiqued.com/WTC4.wmv


that concludes our visit to the World Trade Center...

I have no regrets going or being there... I felt truly honored... and filled with so much love and respect for all those that fought that day...

It was a life altering experience to be there... Stand there... where so much happened... it took my breath away....

Here is what is being built now...

http://architecture.about.com/od/worldtradecenter/ig/World-Trade-Center-Plans/


It's magnificent... there will be 2 encaved large square waterfall pools to honor the towers...

check out the link above...

I will also have you know that I learned from others there that everything that was left behind after the towers fell was reused to build new buildings, repair old ones and overall beautify New York. I just filled up when I heard that.... even with so much destruction we somehow brought back life... WOW!!!

More of this day and our events to be posted very soon....