We caught the subway to South Ferry, the end of the line at the southern tip of Manhattan.
After a brief walk around the area, we joined the queue to catch the free ferry to Staten Island. Many people catch the ferry for the great photo opportunities of Ellis and Liberty Islands. We took heaps of photos of the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline.
You can stay a month, a year or a lifetime on Staten Island. We stayed but an hour. Staten Island has 400,000 inhabitants with and many interesting activities. We walked down to the Staten Island 9/11 Memorial then caught the ferry back.
We decided we had to see Lady Liberty up close so joined the queue for the ferry to Liberty Island. We passed Ellis Island that is closed till next year. This was the main entry point for immigrants to the United States.
We arrived at Liberty Island and took heaps of photos from every angle. We couldn't get in to the museum or observatory in the crown because today's tickets were sold out. we stayed longer than we planned and it was fascinating to see how important this symbol of liberty is to the American people.
On our return, we visited Battery Point and Fort Clinton and walked up to Bowling Green and saw the bronze charging bull, some bits of which were more polished than others!
We walked up the southern extremity of Broadway to Wall St in the Financial District and visited Trinity Church and its very old grave yard. This sits between Wall St and the New York Stock Exchange - a marvelous juxtaposition.
Keeping with our main theme for the day, our final visit was to the 9/11 Memorial. We queued and went through airport type security (as we did for Liberty Island) before entering Ground Zero with its memorial ponds and gardens.
4 comments:
What did you think of the Ground Zero memorial? Reviews of the architecture have been very mixed.
Of course the place I want to visit in NY is the library on Fifth and 42nd!
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Di
I think Mum should taken pose similar to statue of liberty in that photo
The architecture was very simple but seemed so appropriate.
The Library sounds great - hope to fit that in when we come back in a week.
I did see people posing with lamp upraised.
Sounds really interesting. Glad to hear the Ground Zero monuments were simple but appropriate - think that would be a tough one to get right.
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Amanda
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