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Trip to New York followed our visit to Niagara Falls. We
drove from Niagara Falls to New Jersey and stayed at one of our
friends’ place. He greeted us with delicious homemade Chicken
Biriyani. We had a great dinner and a very good night’s
rest. The next day we were fresh and full of energy for
our visit to New York. My husband, his friend and myself
started for our New York visit on 26th May 2002 from
New Jersey. Jamil, a friend working in New York guided us
through out the trip. So it wasn’t difficult for us to locate
and visit the historical places in the city. We reached
New York by Electric train. As soon as we entered New York,
I felt like being in some metropolitan city in India. The
city is fully packed with skyscrapers and narrow streets.
Every building competes with each other in its height soaring
up to the sky. We decided to visit Statue of Liberty Monument
first and started walking through the world famous Wall street,
one of the most important financial places in the world.
On our way we reached the Conde Nast Building that houses
NASDAQ. We took few pictures there and headed towards
Battery Park to fetch the ferry to Statue of liberty Monument
Located
at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, The Battery is one of New
York City's oldest public open spaces. It is where Dutch settlers
landed in 1623, and where the first "battery" of cannons
was erected to defend New Amsterdam. The Battery is now a cradle
of New York history, the front lawn of the Downtown district,
and a hub of harbor access and cultural tourism. Four million
people, including local residents and office workers, school groups,
daycare and camp groups, senior citizens, and national and international
tourists, annually visit the park and its major landmark, Castle
Clinton National Monument. Castle Clinton presently
serves as a busy ticketing center for three million passengers
who annually board ferries to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis
Island.
A
Sphere, salvaged from World Trade Center Disaster Site
was placed in Battery Park. It was in a distorted shape
and lots people were taking pictures of it. The 25' high
sphere stood in the WTC Plaza as a monument to world peace
from 1971 to September 11, 2001 and was distorted by the September
11th attack. We also took few pictures near the Sphere.
Few other statues were erected in the park and the one I liked
the most was that of a Universal Soldier with flags of all the
countries in the world carved at the bottom of the sculpture.
I felt very much delighted to see Indian flag among the other
countries’ flag. This is a New York Korean War Veterans
Memorial dedicated on June 25, 1991 made of Obelisk with cutout
in shape of soldier on base with mosaic, two plaques on two markers
in circular plaza. We also took pictures near American Merchant
Mariners' Memorial, dedicated on October 8, 1991, which depicts
merchant mariners in a sinking lifeboat; dedicated to merchant
mariners lost at sea.
Let's
Visit the Statue of Liberty Next week........
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