World Trade Center Memorial Park

[YosemiteSam]

Someone was talking about this recently and I noted that I would be visiting it on Jan. 7th. I did and took a few pics and figured I would share them with you guys.

Anyway, enjoy.

Two of the towers that are going up at WTC.

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This is "One World Trade Center". It is going to be absolutely gorgeous! (I'm a big skyscraper fan) It will be 105 floors (2.6 million square feet) and cost $3.1 billion to build. The heights are top floor: 1,314 ft, roof: 1,368 ft, Antenna spire: 1,776 ft.

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Not sure which tower this one is.

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The following are in ground fountains. Their foot prints are the original twin tower foot prints.

This fountain is the "South Tower" foot print.

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Also South Tower fountain.

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Names along the edge of the South Tower fountain.

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I believe this will be a WTC museum that sits beside each of the fountains. It's still under construction.

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Another view of the museum.

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North Tower fountain.

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This is the Millenium Hilton Hotel. (tall skinny black building) I stayed here many many times when I was traveling to NYC on a monthly basis before I ended up moving to NYC. It overlooks the site. I remember looking down from the 32nd floor when I stayed here. The WTC site was just a giant hole in the ground.

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Because the pools are in-ground, taking pictures of them from a distance doesn't turn out very well. This is the North Tower pool

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South Tower Pool

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This is a mural outside of the park on a building.

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This is the same mural, but the entire length of it. It looks curved in the picture, but it's not. I used a panoramic picture taking to take a picture of the entire thing. It's actually straight.

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The following is a video I took with my Galaxy Nexus. I'm standing in front of the North Tower pool when I made it.

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...and finally, I took this imagine of the Empire State Building lit up in blue the night before. It's in blue for the Giant's playoffs. Even so, it looks great in blue, so I took the picture.

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I hope you guys enjoyed this. I definitely did enjoy visiting the site. I highly recommend you visit too if you ever make it to NYC.

 

[arglebargle]

Thanks for this! My first real look at it.

 

[Khartun]

Awesome pics, thanks Sam.

 

[SC Cowboyfan]

Thanks for posting! I hope to visit this summer..

 

[peplaw06]

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I was there on Dec. 31st, and this was my favorite part. They had a guy out in front polishing off the sculpture and telling unique facts about 9/11.

The Preview Center was cool too. They had a complete timeline up on the east wall and a few TV screens showing video from that day.

 

[IowaCowboyFan]

wow that has come along way since i was there last a few years back.

i remember that wall sculpture though it was amazing then

 

[kristie]

those pictures are amazing.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Great. Thanks.


I personally feel they should have put the towers back. Leave the original footprints as they are with the fountains and find a way to put new towers opposite the fountains.

Oh well.

 

[Alumni2k11]

Impressive. I haven't been back to the city since they finished all that. Planning on it this summer though.