9/11 and the sphere

 A rerun from April 26, 2019

#skywatchfriday -- visiting an old friend

It's a small park on Liberty Street, across the street from the World Trade Center.

When you first enter the park, you can see the Anne Frank tree, planted by the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect.

Continue to walk through the park and you'll get some impressive views of the World Trade Center.

And the reflecting pool where the South Tower once stood.

The building behind the pool is the 9/11 Museum.  I visited the museum a few years ago.

There is also a statue dedicated the the US Special Forces, who answered the call of duty after 9/11.  The steel beam embedded in the statue's base is a piece of the original WTC.

My goal this trip was to visit an old friend, the Koenig Sphere.

The Sphere is a sculpture.  It graced the plaza between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.  Battered and beaten on 9/11, the Sphere was temporarily located in Battery Park for many years, until its return to the WTC site in 2017.

For many years, I'd walk to the WTC at lunchtime, to sit by the fountain that surrounded the Sphere.

It sits in Liberty Park now.

I walked across the street for a better view of ht reflecting pool

The victims' names are carved into the walls of the pool. There's another pool where the South Tower stood.

And then I walked into the Oculus, the transit hub.  I'd never been inside before.

I didn't have time to walk over to Zuccotti Park to visit another old friend. He sits with his briefcase on the corner of Liberty Street and Church Street, across from the World Trade Center complex. He has a brother in Jersey City, at the Jersey City 9/11 Memorial.  Here's an old photo.

Maybe next time.





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