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.
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. 
Loads of cranes around the place. Still construction going on. 
A flag on a grave in the cemetery of the St. Paul’s church next to the site. 
The fence has these plastic curtains hung all over it. 
The Federal Office Building. 
Post Office and a seriously Soviet style art piece on the front of it. What is the chap doing? 
The tall building under construction which will replace WTC. Should be an aweinspiring sight. 
Waiting to cross the road. 
Peek-a-boo
Construction workers. 
Sign on the top of a crane. 
Hmmm, a rounded dome on top? 
Hmmm, lady, that does NOT look good. 
Another sign. 
The people around the site were quiet, reflective and a bit sad. It was almost like they were in a church. Amazing. 
Walking down the Vesey Street and noticed this rather nice building. 
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. 
Now towards the end of Vesey Street, looking up on the building on the right hand side.
We have a chopper. 
Security gates and Shane.
Flags of USA, New York and I think the Port Authority. 
Then moving into a kind of a corridor walkway. 
Beautiful limestone carvings. Extraordinary art in the middle of the walkway. 
Its still being repaired, so there are scaffoldings around the place. 
Climbed up an escalator and now we are West Street on an elevated pavement. 
Looking at the freedom tower from the back side. 
Loads of construction still happening. 
Walked into Three World Trade Centre. 
Curving walls. 
From the balcony of 3 World Trade Centre, you can see the bee hive of activity on the site. 
Full of construction materials. 
There’s the National September 11 Memorial Building under construction. 
The freedom tower from another angle. 
Passing the Courtland Gallery and still seeing the National Memorial. 
Crossed into the Battery Park City Authority Building and then walking back across West Street. Trees have been planted there now. 
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. 
Zooming into the Freedom Tower where this rather unsightly grey stripy stuff covers it. Looks manky. 
These are the cranes right at the top of the freedom tower, more levels being added. 
Federated Equipment? These Americans are taking their federation too far ;p
ooooo, so that’s how it will look when completed. Nice. 
More equipment, pneumatic hammers at the ready. its lunch time so they are resting. 
Looking back at the Freedom Tower. 
The West Street Building. 
The Rector Park Area. 
Walking up Greenwich Street. 
That is the Singer Building. 
Benson Steel delivering steel to the construction site. 
Shane trying to peek through the fence to take some pics. 
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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