But we neglected to remember that while we were looking for Joe's, it was supposed to be Joe's Shanghai, not Joe's Ginger. It was a tiny place and there were only two other people inside, but it wasn't until we sat down and started reading the menu that it wasn't "that Joe's"
At first, we thought maybe we'd fallen for a . . . knock off. But nope, it's the same chef that started the Shanghai, which, after I looked closer, is actually IN the photo of the sign that I took above, behind the winged horse, on the same side of the street as the Ginger.
YUM
From there, we headed south for the World Trade Center Memorial.
Crossing City Hall Park. City Hall itself was cordoned off with what appeared to be press conference and lots of onlookers, so I checked it out. It was regarding a new bill regarding small business survival in the city. Similar legislation has been introduced periodically since then-Councilmember Ruth Messinger proposed it in 1986. "Thirty-two years is an unacceptable amount of time for New York City to admit there is a problem," Messinger told a rally of supporters outside City Hall before the hearing.
Further down the street we approached the World Trade Center site and I was a bit disturbed by the bizarre alien skeleton carcass that appeared to be crashed asymmetrically adjacent to the memorial.
It's a mall.
On top of a $4,000,000,000 PATH station. (Port Authority Trans-Hudson)
Wow.
Just feels like the wrong place to have such an over the top architecture now, particularly as it is in direct view from the somber, quiet, negative space of the memorial. I couldn't bring myself to go inside, even though I could really have used a restroom.
Incredibly, Google Earth Pro has a satellite image from September 11, 2001 in its historical timeline options.
At the close of 2001, when cleanup was still ongoing and would be through much of 2002
to a decade later, when the memorial was completed for the tenth anniversary and One World Trade Center was beginning to rise from the ground.
The WTC Memorial "Reflecting Absence"
The two reflecting pools are built exactly over the footprints of both North and South Towers, inscribed with the 2,606 names of those who died there.
To reflect on the names, and the stories I know -- especially at the South Tower, was humbling. The North Tower was hit first and Port Authority told everyone in the South to stay put in their offices.
There were an estimated 2000 people on the floors where the second plane would hit. Defying the Port Authority instructions, companies ordered the employees to evacuate, saving some 1400 of the 2000 in place the 17 minutes prior to the South Tower's hit by Flight 175. Of those 600, a reported 200 were in the lobby of the express elevators, trying to get down. That lobby was in one of the floors of the strike zone. No one survived.
No one in or above the impact area of the North Tower survived.
After the Towers' collapse, only 23 people emerged alive from the rubble, 15 of them rescue workers.
The average age of the 2606 people was 40 years old.
One week after the attacks, a tribute was suggested, which ran on the cover of The New York Times Magazine, entitled Phantom Towers.
On each September 11 since 2002 the renamed Tribute in Light appears.
2018 Tribue in Light
For the past decade, the generators used to produce the light are fueled by biodiesel from local restaurants.
Across the street sits The Sphere, once a centerpiece of the plaza between the towers, was found largely intact underneath the rubble. Unrestored, it now keeps an eternal flame within site of the memorial. The NYFD truck just happened to pass as I stopped to take a photo from the South Tower memorial.
One World Trade Center rises above the memorial as the tallest building in the United States at a deliberately designated height of 1776 feet. It took seven years to completion.
We headed down Church street to explore Trinity Church Cemetery.
The original Trinity Church was built in 1696 and burned in the American Revolution in 1776. The second building was completed in 1790 where General George Washington and his cabinet worshiped while the capitol was in New York City. Alexander Hamilton was the church's lawyer and five of his children were baptized here. His funeral was held here and his family lies among the churchyard. His son Philip's grave is lost to history, somewhere in the churchyard and likely near where the marker stands.
Angelica's grave
While she’s alive, we tell your story
She is buried in Trinity Church, near you
When I needed her most, she was right on time...
In 1838 support beams buckled and the second church had to be demolished and the current version was consecrated on Ascension Day 1846. With its steeple reaching 281 feet, it was the tallest building in New York City until 1890.
Richard Churcher, age five, has the oldest surviving gravestone in the cemetery, some 327 years ago.
From there it was a short walk down to Fearless Girl. LittleLin, who we kept forgetting at a lot of places, made his tiny appearance near her right foot.
The area was mobbed and it was tough to get near to the Charging Bull, so I waited until this one group snapped their photo and just aimed over heads. It looks a little like running with the bulls.
in a quieter moment, from this article about her impending move
Across the way stands 26 Broadway and the Standard Oil Building, built in 1885
and includes among its current tenants the New York Film Academy and Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning
Our plan was to end at Fraunces Tavern museum and tavern, headquarters for General Washington during the American Revolution, but the whole building was closed for a film crew.
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