My travel blog: New York City July 25

This trip was arranged because of my daughter's 40th birthday. We flew via Delta to JFK airport and took a cab to Hotel St James on 45th street, which was under reconstruction I guess. The people there were friendly, the room was clean and the bed was comfortable and that's all I'm going to say about that.

We couldn't check in right away so we went to O'Conelly's Irish pub and had lunch.

Irish smoked salmon salad. This was amazingly delicious!!!!

As the weather was nice, we took the subway, or the E train (I think), to the World Trade Center. We came UP right in front of St Paul's Chapel which was just one block from the towers when they fell and had very little damage. As you can see by the pictures this cemetery is very old.

And below is a link to the history of this site and the 911 aftermath.

http://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/st-pauls-chapel-churchyard/

The new One World Trade Center tower, aka Freedom Tower, was visible from St Paul's Chapel.

the lower portion, all is not finished yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center

Next we visited the 911 Museum that recently opened. The site is amazing and my pictures can't do it justice. We could take pictures in the forefront of the museum but not inside where they covered all the disturbing details of that day.

My ticket bought on line, see link below.

One of the towers cornerstones.

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The two water memorials outside has everyone's name.

http://www.911memorial.org

When in New York, do as the New Yorker's do, have pizza. Bella Vita Pizzeria on W 43rd street was just the thing!!!

Saturday was overcast and threats of rain. Took subway down to 23rd Street (some pictures of the subway tiles. These are all over the New York Subways, very cool),

Came up from the subway and we were here......

a hugh complex of small restaurants, eateries and food shops. A lot of food eye candy!!!!!

Speaking of eye candy, this is not really what we found in Times Square. Because of your hotel location, we had to cross paths with it multiple times in three days.

The day before Spider man got arrested!!!

Well, this might be considered "Eye Candy".

In New York you are allowed use paint for clothing if you are part of a "Show".

Back to Saturday, we headed for the 'High Line', which is an old raised railroad track that was going to demolished but is was saved and made in to a park more than a mile long.