We spent some time at the 9/11 Memorial. It was a moving tribute with the two pools and the little lawn area.
The new towers are being built, and the first one is almost to its height, which will be the tallest building in NYC, and the Western Hemisphere.
In the museum they had memorabilia from that day, such as fireman hats, personal effects that were recovered, and crumpled pieces of aluminum from the buildings.
What was sad to see was the fire stations nearby with tributes on the walls to the men who were killed that day.
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| We drove past the New York County Courthouse where many movie and TV shows are filmed |
then over the Brooklyn Bridge, to Grimaldi's for some Brooklyn style pizza.
The next two days we spent on a hop on/ hop off tour bus seeing the sights of the city. We took 4 tours: the downtown loop where we saw all the major buildinngs and districts of the city, the uptown loop which included Harlem and the Apollo theater, the night loop which included the lights of the city, and the Brooklyn loop which included the major sights there.
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| Junior's Cheesecake |
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| United Nations building with every country represented's flag |
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| Chrysler Bldg |
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| Grey's Papaya Hot Dogs |
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| Statue of Liberty |
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| Ellis Island |
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| the John Lennon tribute in Strawberry Fields in Central Park |
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| Pastrami Sandwich at the famous Katz's Deli |
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| the Guggenheim |
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| the view from the Empire State Building |
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| the Empire State Bldg |
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Can you see us in the jumbotron at Times Square?
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