Last Saturday was my second trip to the Big Apple..
The Little Silver Train Station……circa 1890?
Always end up going to NYC on cold rainy days. This time I had at least one ‘purpose’ before going to the concert…wanted to see the 9/11 memorial. So hopped the subway from Penn Station and away we went. Walked past St. Paul’s Chapel on the way….in the churchyard is the 'Bell of Hope', given to St Paul's by the Lord Mayor of London on the first anniversary of 9/11.
Kind of spooky for a February mid-afternoon……
the weather was not good…..
but the weather probably suited the day pretty well. There is still a ton of construction going on around here rebuilding so you have to walk quite a ways to get to the alternate entrance. You can see the museum there on the right…it is not open yet. The one pool is straight ahead in the foreground before the building on the left, the other pool is almost directly to the right……
Each pool is surrounded by panels of names…..
I think each pool sits on the site where each tower was….these are the largest manmade fountains in the United States. I had to check, sweet gum and swamp white oak trees…not sure which still has brown leaves in February but thought that was an interesting touch…..
After the memorial, headed back over to Brooklyn for concert number two, Lord Huron. Three kids from Okemos, first album, critically acclaimed, happy to get to see them! Slightly more expensive than They Might Be Giants though….
And they rocked it! Great show. For They Might Be Giants I’d guess 2/3 of the crowd was younger than me….here? 95%, easy……
what do they sound like you ask? From a review in the Guardian (London, UK)
The buzz: "Ambitious, beguiling stuff" – Rolling Stone.
The truth: It's the best album of choral Americana since Fleet Foxes.
