battery park
basically battery park is where you catch the ferry to liberty island (where the statue of liberty is) and ellis island. some education for you: ellis island is where all immigrants trying to get into the states would go to (or there is also a place in texas somewhere - apparently more strict). people from all over the world - hoping for freedom - packed up their lives, spending all the money they had and hopped on massive ships packed with people. each ship stopped at ellis island and dropped off the hopeful potential immigrants. once there they waited in long lines, women and children forced to separate from men, to become deemed worthy or not worthy of entrance to the united states. these individuals went through mental tests and brutal medical examinations before they were granted entry or not. if granted entry into the united states they had to do money exchanges and wait in lines to be fed. there is a whole museum on ellis island all about it.
this "sphere" once stood in the plaza between the twin towers of the world trade centre.
it now rests in battery park, still intact but damaged (with dents and holes) from the debris of the september 11th terrorist attack of 2001. there is an eternal flame inside the sphere as a memorial to the victims of september 11, 2001
magnolia bakery - hectic hectic place.
this brings an end to my nyc posts.
its a lovely city with way too much to do.
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