October & December Views - Cleaning Up

The Site, mid-October.  Amazing progress in clean up, they’ve removed most of the destroyed outlying buildings.  The white tent is Red Cross, where workers eat. 

Lower Broadway, one long stretch of memorial walls.  Taken late-December on my way to the airport to go to LA for the holidays. 

View from Chambers down Greenwich Street to the Site.  You didn’t used to be able to see the black building with the flag on it at all.  Thank God for that building, it blocked debris from my friend Melva’s building, which is just behind it. 

View from Melva’s apartment of the Site.  Taken in December.  Her building, 120 Greenwich, has yet to re-open and she has since moved to Broad Street.  Once a Downtown girl, always a Downtown girl! 

Looking south from the Tribeca Bridge overpass down West Street.  Crossing here can be hazardous.  Regardless of my mood setting out, every time I walk by here I feel a surge of anger. 

The first cruise ship in New York Harbor after 9/11.  A welcome sight!!  Taken from my apartment. 

A daily sight since 9/11: neighbors moving out, or family members cleaning out deceased neighbors' apartments.  Taken from my apartment. 

The piano!  Or, “Day of Mary’s Musical Rebirth” 

A Site worker takes a moment for his own musical rejuvenation in Rockefeller Park.  His respirator hangs from his belt.  Taken from my apartment.

Above human allegiances and enmity, nature’s glory continues unabated