Three months post 9/11: Our first trip to New York City after September 11, to bear witness to the horror suffered by so many at the site of the World Trade Center.
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- PGK Art: The Empire State Building
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- PGK Art
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- PGK Art: Ferry from New Jersey to New York
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- PGK Art: Erie Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, N.J.
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- PGK Art: Erie Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, N.J.
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- PGK Art: The Hudson flowing towards the Atlantic.
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- PGK Art: Hair Blowing In The Wind
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- PGK Art: Malgosia
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- PGK Art: Two months after September 11, the eye sees beauty; the heart wrenches with pain; the mind knows that over two thousand good souls went to heaven here.
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- American Merchant Mariners Memorial, by Marisol Escobar: Situated on an old piling (Pier A, just west of Battery Park), it shows three sailors trying to rescue a man in the water. The victim’s fingers do not quite reach the rescuer’s, and he seems fated to slip under the gray-green waters of the harbor. The sculpture features a depiction of a dramatic rescue after an attack by a German submarine on a merchant marine vessel. At high tide, one of the sculpted figures is submerged under water. Although the memorial depicts an event from World War II, it commemorates the thousands of merchant ships and crews that were pressed into military service throughout the nation’s history. As the memorial itself states: “This memorial serves as a marker for American’s merchant mariners resting in the unmarked ocean depths.” The sculpture draws inspiration from photographs taken by the crew of the U-Boat of their handiwork. In fact, the figures who inspired the sculpture died at sea.
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- WTC ruins (nortbound on the West Side Highway) A covered pedestrian bridge used to connect 3 World Financial Center to the World Trade Center (the North Bridge with 60 meters of clear span) across West Street.
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- WTC ruins
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- Flowers in memorium
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- Witnesses to the WTC ruins
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- WTC ruins, as seen from Washington Street, looking North
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- WTC ruins
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- Police and military vehicles
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- High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee)
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- Reconstruction of the utilities infrastructure
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- Wall Street, east from Broadway
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- Banners
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- Messages
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- Flowers left in memory
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- Winter Garden in ruins Winter Garden Reconstruction The 45,000-square foot Winter Garden, reopened in September 2002, is the centerpiece of the World Financial Center. The grand public space suffered severe damage on its east side during the attack on the World Trade Center. The restoration project included replacing 2,000 glass panes or nearly 70% of the arched ceiling, half of the grand staircase and the marble flooring, and all 16 of the 40-foot Washingtonia robusta palm trees. The North Bridge, the 400-foot pedestrian bridge connecting the World Trade Center to the World Financial Center was crushed during the attack and was replaced with glass windows facing east.
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- WTC ruins
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- PGK Art: What Remains
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- WTC ruins
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- WTC ruins
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- Messages in front of St. Paul’s Chapel
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- Military and Police guards protecting the WTC site
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- Crowd on Broadway, looking west onto WTC site
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- New York Stock Exchange entrance on Wall Street
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