Our last day in New York was a clear sunny day, such a change from the showers and cloud cover we have had for so long. We took advantage of the sunshine and hopped back onto our bus tours and took the tour over to Brooklyn. The guide was a Brooklyn native and was quite frank with his comments and it seems that there is some strong feelings by the residents of Brooklyn and New Jersey towards the rest of the boroughs of New York city.
There are some lovely tree lined streets with the old brownstone buildings that have often featured in many tv shows and films eg Breakfast at Tiffanys, Sex and the City, Cosby show, When Harry met Sally and the list goes on. In cities that are so heavily populated it is good to see so many tree lined streets and green spaces.
When we returned to Manhatten from Brooklyn we hopped off downtown and made our way to Ground Zero. There is a 9/11 memorial centre set upand being Saturday the queue was sooooo long we decided to just wander. I remembered when I had been here in 2006 that I visited a fire station with a lovely mural dedicated to the fire fighters and police lost in the tragedy. By asking a few questions we got directions and found our way to the station andstarted talking to an older gentleman who was there cleaning the mural. I had thought that there had been another building close by and asked him about that as now the mural was out in the open. The answer was that the building I remembered had been damaged but could not be imploded to demolish it and had been slowly demolished piece by piece instead.
We found our way back up to Times Square and then strolled around, visiting Macys, Grand Central Station (which has recently turned 100)
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