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Day 3 -- Wednesday, May 20th
Not nearly as many pictures as Tuesday, but we still did a lot of stuff.
We started off the day by taking the train down to Chinatown. We got off and somehow got turned around because we ended up in TriBeCa. "You never really know your way around a place until you get lost in it," said Anthony, so we walked around looking for Chinatown.
Even the streetlamps are Asian!
Some of the architecture in Chinatown.
This man sold grass art on the corner. There's a peacock up front, which I bought for my grandma.
One of the many shops in Chinatown. They had all kinds of souvenir-type things for sale.
Homer was outside of a bakery.
I love Chinatown. It's so cool because it seems so out of place in New York. The streets are small and just filled with people trying to get you to buy stuff. There are tons of fresh vegetable stands and little fish markets that reek when you walk past them.
After Chinatown, we took the subway all the down to the very last stop, the Brooklyn Bridge. You start walking on a sidewalk and before you know it, you're on the wooden planks of the pedestrian path. The path is the highest part of the bridge (that you can walk along) -- the cars actually travel on the roadway underneath you.
This is another one of my favorite pictures.
Downtown Manhattan, as seen from the bridge
Our original plan was to walk across the entire bridge, all the way to Brooklyn, but we only got as far as the first tower. It's a LONG way just to that part (and then we would've had to walk ALL THE WAY back!).
Underneath the horizontal trusses is the roadway.
That's the Manhattan Bridge.
On the way back to Manhattan. The left side is the pedestrian lane, and the right side is for bikers.
Once back in Manhattan, we decided to explore Lower Manhattan -- the World Trade Center site, Wall Street, etc.
"The Trinity Root -- On September 11th, 2001, debris from the collapsing World Trade Center towers knocked over a giant sycamore tree and that stood for nearly a century in the churchyard of St. Paul's Chapel, at Broadway and Fulton St. When the dust settled, the uprooted tree was found lying on a narrow path in the yard. It had fallen in such a way that none of the historic tombstones around it were disturbed and non of the wreckage had reached the chapel.
Sculptor Steve Tobin heard the story of the sycamore and envisioned using its roots as the base for a bronze sculpture. Installed on the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, the Trinity Root is a metaphor for our connectedness and strength.
The remnants of the sycamore's roots, preserved by Tobin with the help of tree experts, have been returned to St. Paul's to permanantly reside."
This is in the churchyard of Trinity Church, which is the oldest church in Manhattan. It was literally across the street from the Trade Center towers, but remained unharmed on 9/11. Last time we went there, you could go inside and they had all kinds of drawings from kids and other 9/11 rememberance types of things.
This is the site of the Trade Centers. There's not really much there right now.
This is the Charging Bull by Bowling Green Park. It's a symbol of Wall Street (bulls and bears).
Looking down Wall Street
This is Trinity Church
This is probably what you think of when you think of Wall Street
This is also the NY Stock Exchange. They were hanging a flag on the side of the building.
This is the relief at the top of the NYSE.
Across the street from the NYSE is Federal Hall, with this statue of George Washington (I told you they're fond of him). This is on the base of the statue.
The Trump Building. Donald Trump is also fond of NYC (but, from what I gather, they're not to fond of him).
Another stop on Karen's Pop Culture Tour of NYC: TIFFANY'S! There are at least two Tiffany's stores in Manhattan, and although this is not the one from Breakfast at Tiffany's (that one, I saw on Thursday), it was still cool.
This was on the street on the way back to our hotel. They change the colors of the lights on the ESB depending on the day.
They were blue and white this night because of the Yankees.
My feet were DEAD TIRED after all the walking we'd been doing, so we called it an early night. We walked around the little neighborhood by our hotel and tried to find something for dinner. Then we went back to our room and watched American Idol (yay, Kris!).
Thursday is next, and all about Central Park (and some other places).
Not nearly as many pictures as Tuesday, but we still did a lot of stuff.
We started off the day by taking the train down to Chinatown. We got off and somehow got turned around because we ended up in TriBeCa. "You never really know your way around a place until you get lost in it," said Anthony, so we walked around looking for Chinatown.
Even the streetlamps are Asian!
Some of the architecture in Chinatown.
This man sold grass art on the corner. There's a peacock up front, which I bought for my grandma.
One of the many shops in Chinatown. They had all kinds of souvenir-type things for sale.
Homer was outside of a bakery.
I love Chinatown. It's so cool because it seems so out of place in New York. The streets are small and just filled with people trying to get you to buy stuff. There are tons of fresh vegetable stands and little fish markets that reek when you walk past them.
After Chinatown, we took the subway all the down to the very last stop, the Brooklyn Bridge. You start walking on a sidewalk and before you know it, you're on the wooden planks of the pedestrian path. The path is the highest part of the bridge (that you can walk along) -- the cars actually travel on the roadway underneath you.
This is another one of my favorite pictures.
Downtown Manhattan, as seen from the bridge
Our original plan was to walk across the entire bridge, all the way to Brooklyn, but we only got as far as the first tower. It's a LONG way just to that part (and then we would've had to walk ALL THE WAY back!).
Underneath the horizontal trusses is the roadway.
That's the Manhattan Bridge.
On the way back to Manhattan. The left side is the pedestrian lane, and the right side is for bikers.
Once back in Manhattan, we decided to explore Lower Manhattan -- the World Trade Center site, Wall Street, etc.
"The Trinity Root -- On September 11th, 2001, debris from the collapsing World Trade Center towers knocked over a giant sycamore tree and that stood for nearly a century in the churchyard of St. Paul's Chapel, at Broadway and Fulton St. When the dust settled, the uprooted tree was found lying on a narrow path in the yard. It had fallen in such a way that none of the historic tombstones around it were disturbed and non of the wreckage had reached the chapel.
Sculptor Steve Tobin heard the story of the sycamore and envisioned using its roots as the base for a bronze sculpture. Installed on the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, the Trinity Root is a metaphor for our connectedness and strength.
The remnants of the sycamore's roots, preserved by Tobin with the help of tree experts, have been returned to St. Paul's to permanantly reside."
This is in the churchyard of Trinity Church, which is the oldest church in Manhattan. It was literally across the street from the Trade Center towers, but remained unharmed on 9/11. Last time we went there, you could go inside and they had all kinds of drawings from kids and other 9/11 rememberance types of things.
This is the site of the Trade Centers. There's not really much there right now.
This is the Charging Bull by Bowling Green Park. It's a symbol of Wall Street (bulls and bears).
Looking down Wall Street
This is Trinity Church
This is probably what you think of when you think of Wall Street
This is also the NY Stock Exchange. They were hanging a flag on the side of the building.
This is the relief at the top of the NYSE.
Across the street from the NYSE is Federal Hall, with this statue of George Washington (I told you they're fond of him). This is on the base of the statue.
The Trump Building. Donald Trump is also fond of NYC (but, from what I gather, they're not to fond of him).
Another stop on Karen's Pop Culture Tour of NYC: TIFFANY'S! There are at least two Tiffany's stores in Manhattan, and although this is not the one from Breakfast at Tiffany's (that one, I saw on Thursday), it was still cool.
This was on the street on the way back to our hotel. They change the colors of the lights on the ESB depending on the day.
They were blue and white this night because of the Yankees.
My feet were DEAD TIRED after all the walking we'd been doing, so we called it an early night. We walked around the little neighborhood by our hotel and tried to find something for dinner. Then we went back to our room and watched American Idol (yay, Kris!).
Thursday is next, and all about Central Park (and some other places).