We took a ferry to the see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island (it was identical to the boat we took to Alcatraz in San Francisco)... it was a coldish and blustery day...
Ellis Island...
The museum rooms inside the main building were really well done...
Lots of old passports...
The registration room on the second floor - I just kept thinking of Feivel Mouskewitz :)
After our tour, we still had some time to fill until our fancy dinner at Bobby Flay's Bar Amercain. So we walked over to the 9/11 memorial. There is a still a museum and some landscaping being worked on, but it is otherwise all complete - the waterfalls were amazing. Ben and I both agreed that the memorial was very well done and the area had a very reverent but good feeling. There are two square waterfalls matching the footprints of the original twin towers with the names of all who died surrounding them - those that died during the 1993 bombing were also included...
This is the "survivor tree" - it was the only tree that, although uprooted, survived the attacks of 9/11. They moved it to a Bronx park and cared for it until it was recently moved back to the memorial site...
After this we had plans to locate the Food Network offices... in hopes for a tour or something, since they have their test kitchens and do a lot of their filming there... we were disappointed to discover they do not do tour or allow visitors. BUT we did discover the Chelsea Market, which is right below the Food Network - it was awesome! There were tons of great eateries and shops and it was so cute. But I didn't want to eat anything there because we had reservations in just 30 minutes at Bar Americain. We intended to go back to eat there the next day, but we never got the chance - maybe next visit! But our dinner at Bobby Flay's restaurant was awesome and worth keeping our tummies empty for :)
Last on the New York tour: Natural History Museum, biking in Central Park, and Rockafeller Center
I'm not a tree huger, but there's something special about the 'tree that lived'.
ReplyDelete9/11 was awful. It's good to see that the memorial is so nice.
Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
At this point we think crossing town is big excitement.