Nanseann: Day 269 July 10 Liberty Landing Marina Jersey City NJ

We are spending the day in New York City so that we may visit the 9/11 Memorial. We wanted to visit the Statue of Liberty but would have to wait until September to get a ticket to go up in the crown since it just re-opened. Ellis Island is closed at the moment for tours. We have a ferry at our marina....$7 each way and we have our visitors pass for 9/11 Memorial....$4....so put on your walking shoes Captain it's time to go.

Liberty Landing Ferry

The 9/11 Memorial honors the 2,983 men, women, and children who perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.

The 9/11 attack killed 2, 977 people from more than 90 nations. The oldest victim was 85 years old; the youngest was two. More than 400 were first responders who died performing their sworn duties.

The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a 16-acre commercial complex built between 1966 and 1987. It contained seven buildings, a large plaza, and an undergroound shopping mall.

On February 26, 1993, Islamist terrorists detonated explosives in the garage underneath the WTC, killing six people and injuring thousands. On 9/11, the entire complex was destroyed.

1 WTC Freedom Tower

1,776 feet...105 stories.... the tallest building in the United States completed 4 weeks ago

Security and police surround the area

Firefighters Memorial Wall

Ten House....Liberty Street

The 9/11 Memorial opened on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. It consists of two pools set in the footprints of the original Twin Towers. These are where the towers used to stand. Thirty-foot waterfalls---the largest in North America---cascade into the pools, each then descending into a center void. When the entire site is complete, the surrounding plaza will include more than 400 swamp white oak trees. the trees were selected from nurseries within a 500-mile radius of the threee attack sites.

9/11 Memorial

Long lines.....tons of security

North Pool

Skyline around the 9/11 Memorial

South pool

9/11 Museum being build

Workers everywhere

All but one of the trees on the Memorial are swamp white oaks. The exception is a Callery pear tree known as the "Survivor Tree." This tree was planted on the original WTC plaza in the 1970s, and stood at the eastern edge of the site near Church Street. After 9/11 workers found the damaged tree, reduced to an eight-foot-tall stump, in the wreckage at Ground Zero.

The tree was nursed back to health in a New York City park and grew to be 30 feet tall, sprouting new branches and flowering in the springtime. In December 2010, the tree returned to the WTC site.

The Survivor Tree

9/11 Special

One World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower is the lead building of the new World Trade Center complex. The 105-story skyscraper completed this year is the tallest building in the United States and among the tallest in the world with its radio antenna reaching a symbolic height of 1,776 feet. They say the new complex will include Two (88-story), Three (80-story), Four (72-story) World Trade Center in time. Construction is major in this area and Security is dominant. There is a security check-in when you enter the 9/11 memorial.

The world-famous Battery whose name is derived from a battery of 92 guns placed there by the British in 1693 to ward off attacks by the French was interesting to walk Children with their nannies were everywhere. Dog walks.....people walks.....bicycle paths.....alive with people