New York: Part II - WTC, Staten Island Ferry, Empire State Building

My buddy Scott Tarry from Nebraska and I spent the afternoon after the conference by visting the WTC centre site. I was expecting it to be erie or uncomfortable and although clearly it will always be a special place of rememberance, the site itself is really just a building site and feels like it. The area is off limits to most people but I saw a service man take some time remembering someone special.






Arriving at Battery Park to find the queues for the trip to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island were impossibly long we took the much cheaper (free) option of riding the Staten Island Ferry and got views of the statue and lower Manhattan for nutin.



After queuing for an hour we arrived at the top of the Empire State Building just as it was turning dusk. We spent an hour up at the viewing level as it got very cold but I'm pleased with some of the results.