An early start…
And we’re off to the Freedom Tower! Seriously, this place really is like a Disneyland Ride. There is so much VJing going on, so many useless interviews with construction crew, and an overload of emotionally overpowering music, in true American fashion they’ve managed to create a place that is incredibly entertaining, loud and an overload to the senses before you even get to the observation area.
(but hey, the inner building design is pretty futuristically cool).
Up on the observation deck (once we’d cleared all the inspirational and emotional music. Seriously, there was a lot of it.) The view was absolutely incredible. To the point where I took so many photos it took me a long time to sift through and find the best 11 photos.
(The one with the copper spire is the incredible Woolworth building. It is beautifully old and majestic).
The Twin Towers memorial. This is probably the most fitting and emotionally compelling memorial I have seen (other than the WW2 memorials in Berlin), as the memorial is actually two pools made from the exact base of the towers’ foundations. Being in the presence of such a massive cascade of water on the black tiles of the foundations really made you feel the impact that 9/11 really had.
This building was also in the area, and I don’t know what it was for, just that it looked awesome.
Freedom Tower from below. It really is a monolith.
After going up to the top of Freedom One, we went to the Century 21 department store which was pretty crazy because it’s basically Macy’s (as in designer clothes) but discount everything. Our feet then incredibly sore, we stop for sushi, which of course New York knows how to do incredibly well, and then we took the train to Brooklyn to walk across the Brooklyn bridge. Brooklyn (or what little I saw of it) was a pretty cool and nice area, so I can quite easily see why all the trendy people live there.
The views were absolutely incredible, and if any of you are going to walk the Brooklyn bridge take the subway to Brooklyn then walk back, as you get all the incredible views of the Manhattan bridge and the beautiful New York cityscape.
The Brooklyn bridge itself is amazing, as the wires and archways create some amazing shots and views on their own.
This building is actually one of the municpal buildings and is absolutely beautiful and huge!
It also has an amazing internal structure.
In true tourist fashion, I took a photo of a squirrel while my family had an in depth converstaion about how they are so cute and why American’s dislike them so much (they’re basically like our possoms, although America also has possoms…).
Another pretty building
The incredible Woolworth building from street level. It is seriously an incredibly beautiful and old building.
We did so much walking and wandering today that my feet are killing me, but I really don’t care. I feel like the more I walk the more I understand New York and its inhabitants, both of which are incredibly normal and diverse at the same time, which I guess is just another way of saying they’re both very human.