Sunday, September 04, 2011

May 11. New York. World Trade Centre

Shane and I decided to pay a visit to the World Trade Centre in NY. Here are some of the photographs of the site. We went around the entire site, so there are a fair few photographs here. If you are bored and dont want to read my captions and want to go straight to the slideshow, then click here.

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Came out of the subway and saw this sigh. It should look good when its constructed, but why water falling down a hole? A symbol should be upwards, reaching back into the sky.

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Loads of cranes around the place. Still construction going on.

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A flag on a grave in the cemetery of the St. Paul’s church next to the site.

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The fence has these plastic curtains hung all over it.

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The Federal Office Building.

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Post Office and a seriously Soviet style art piece on the front of it. What is the chap doing?

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The tall building under construction which will replace WTC. Should be an aweinspiring sight.

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Waiting to cross the road.

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Peek-a-boo

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Construction workers.

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Sign on the top of a crane.

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Hmmm, a rounded dome on top?

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Hmmm, lady, that does NOT look good.

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Another sign.

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The people around the site were quiet, reflective and a bit sad. It was almost like they were in a church. Amazing.

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Walking down the Vesey Street and noticed this rather nice building.

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This little open place was full of construction workers. Uniform of jeans, heavy shoes, t-shirts, hi vis vests and extraordinary helmets. I took some photographs of these helmets. Full of interesting decals.

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Now towards the end of Vesey Street, looking up on the building on the right hand side.

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We have a chopper.

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Security gates and Shane.

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Flags of USA, New York and I think the Port Authority.

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Then moving into a kind of a corridor walkway.

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Beautiful limestone carvings. Extraordinary art in the middle of the walkway.

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Its still being repaired, so there are scaffoldings around the place.

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Climbed up an escalator and now we are West Street on an elevated pavement.

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Looking at the freedom tower from the back side.

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Loads of construction still happening.

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Walked into Three World Trade Centre.

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Curving walls.

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From the balcony of 3 World Trade Centre, you can see the bee hive of activity on the site.

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Full of construction materials.

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There’s the National September 11 Memorial Building under construction.

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The freedom tower from another angle.

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Passing the Courtland Gallery and still seeing the National Memorial.

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Crossed into the Battery Park City Authority Building and then walking back across West Street. Trees have been planted there now.

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This is West Street. In the distance you can see the covered pathway crossing West Street which I walked across earlier into 3 world trade centre.

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Zooming into the Freedom Tower where this rather unsightly grey stripy stuff covers it. Looks manky.

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These are the cranes right at the top of the freedom tower, more levels being added.

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Federated Equipment? These Americans are taking their federation too far ;p

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ooooo, so that’s how it will look when completed. Nice.

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More equipment, pneumatic hammers at the ready. its lunch time so they are resting.

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Looking back at the Freedom Tower.

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The West Street Building.

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The Rector Park Area.

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Walking up Greenwich Street.

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That is the Singer Building.

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Benson Steel delivering steel to the construction site.

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Shane trying to peek through the fence to take some pics.

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A FDNY truck parked on Trinity Place. It was a rather interesting experience, walking around here. This is hallowed ground and the people definitely showed a difference in behaviour. But perhaps once the construction is done, then the feeling would be better, because it was a sort of a reality distortion field. You get the feeling of massive death and destruction only from some angles and some places, in other places, its a heaving mass of people and machinery. Strange and wonderful. So many people died here, so many of my friends and colleagues died here. Sighs. I whispered a small prayer to their souls.

The next essay is the walk to Trinity Church.

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