Downtown to Uptown NY

Began with the subway trip to the south of Manhattan and the walk through Battery Park to the Staten Island Ferry. This free ferry ride the photo opportunity of the gift from the French, The Statue of Liberty. Saw the Bronze Bull, the NY Stock Exchange on Wall Street, George Washington Statue where he first took the oath in 1789to be the US first president. The Trump Building and into Trinity Church.
Went to Ground Zero, the site of the Twin Towers. As Aaron looked around the tribute/museum of the September 11th Sarah and Fraser went to Century 21 (Not the real estate agency, although we would like to think we could afford a place here).
The pictures and missing persons posters at the tribute place is so moving.Wreckage of the plane, twisted steel beam, firefighters jackets etc is just unreal. The firefighter bronze memorial on the side of the fire station next to the site also highlights the tragedies of that day in 2001.
The three of us walked around ground zero where they have began building the foundations and buildings for the tribute on site. Explored St Paul's Chapel that has extracts of the fence that lined the site with peoples tributes. This is where the firefighters and others rested after the attack.
Continuing North we went through City Hall park to walk half the length of Brooklyn Bridge.
A subway stop at Grand central station for lunch before entering Central Park at 7th St. After a small detour we found Strawberry Fields (No strawberries here though). This is rather a mosaic memorial to John Lennon who live near by in the Dakota apartments, still owned and occupied by Yoko Ono.
Further exploration of Central Park took us to Bethesda Fountain (Think this is the one in the Friends TV show), Bow Bridge (A large cast-iron bridge and Belvedere Castle. A quick outside look at the Metropolitan Museum before the walk back to our Hotel via Fifth Ave which is full of the top end stores.
A delicious meal at Heartland Brewery capped of a busy day in the heat of New York City.