A virtual tour through Ground Zero, 10 years after the 9/11– Part 1

 

Today is 9/11/11, 10 years ago there was a place called World trade center, now they call it Ground Zero. We all know what happened that day, when 2 hijacked planes hit right through the twin towers, not so far from the world’s business headquarters, and the very famous Wall Street, killing 3000 persons and ravaging the area, even neighbor buildings fell down. Many people wonder, how the area looks like after 10 years. I had the opportunity to be there in 7/11/11 in a tour through lower Manhattan, the financial borough of New York, I’ll take you to the big Apple in a virtual tour, via the transatlantic fiber cables, so please buckle up.

 

 

- The famous Bull -

 

- The northern entrance of the Wall Street’s Stock Exchange -

- The Federal Hall National Monument -

Apparently, journalists shooting a Financial News from the Wall Street.

- The eastern side of the Wall Street Stock Exchange building -

In fact, I was a bit disappointed, to find this building smaller than I expected. It seemed always taller in movies or a Financial news.
 

 

 

- Our guide telling us this building’s history, the holes in the wall are bullets marks -

 

 

 

 

- The “Brooklyn bridge” One of New York’s landmarks -

The eastern side of the Ground Zero’s construction site.

 
 
 
As there are tons of photos, I’d split the entry into many parts.
Continue below with PART 2.

A virtual tour through Ground Zero, 10 years after the 9/11– Part 2

I found this guy stuck with some financial reports and stuff, who wouldn’t help someone in “The Pursuit of HappYness” ( You know what I talk about if you watched Will Smith’s movie)

On the right block of this street there’s a Cafeteria (I forgot its name) that was offering free meals during the rescue operations in 9/11.

 

 

- The southern side of Ground Zero’s construction site -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had to go through the tunnel in the photo to get into the World Trade Center, and go to the western side of the Ground Zero.

 

- The view from the tunnel -

The not-finished-yet lower part of the building above was supposed to be made of Crystal prisms, but they found that it’s kind of fragile for such colossal structures. They’d use something else for that part.

The building in the middle is supposed to be a museum that only the victim’s families will have the right to get in.

The guide told us that they planted a number of trees equal to the number of the persons who died in the event, and on the right part, it would be the tallest artificial water fall.

 

- Getting into the World Financial Center -

In Part 3, we’ll go to the western side of the ground zero and almost in the southwest of Manhattan Island.