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Friday, June 06, 2025

New York City Vacation, Day 2

We started our day with visits to the Tenement Museum, St. Paul's Chapel, and the 9/11 Memorial. At noon we ate bagels and lox out on the terrace of Brookfield Place along the Hudson River.

We spent the afternoon exploring the 9/11 Museum and then went to the One World Observatory for 360° views of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Jersey City. In the evening we went to Yankee Stadium for a game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox (the Yankees won 9 to 6).

We were joined in the evening by Jacob, Suzanna's fiancé, who flew up from Nashville for the weekend; and by Ryan, Abigail's boyfriend, who is from Long Island. After the baseball game, we all had drinks and appetizers at the Beer Authority, a craft beer pub not far from our hotel.

(Click on any photo to enlarge it.)

One World Trade Center is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex. It is the tallest building in the USA (and in the Western hemisphere).

Skyscrapers surrounding the World Trade Center complex.

At the site of each of the Twin Towers (from the original World Trade Center complex), there is now a memorial pool, an acre in size, that sits within the footprint of the tower that once stood there. The names of those killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, are inscribed in metal surrounding each pool. Water cascades down from four walls of waterfalls just beneath the people's names.

Another view of one of the pools surrounded by skyscrapers in the neighborhood.

From the top of the highest building in the city (and country) (and hemisphere), One World Observatory offers views in all directions from 102 stories up. In the distance, can you spy the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island at the mouth of the Hudson River?

We took the subway to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. It was packed! Nobody was deterred by the rain, least of all us: we had seats in the upper deck under the roof!

Our view of the field.

Back row: Jacob and Suzanna
Front row: Ryan and Abigail, Susan and me, and Hillary

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