Sculpture catches our eyes in Battery Park

The sculpture in Battery Park which caught
our eye and has because a "9/11" memorial

AFTER our New York shopping experience and meeting up at the Prada/Jimmy Choo corner in Bloomingdales, we took the subway to Grand Central Railway (sorry, railroad) Station which typifies everything in New York. It's not just the stunning and palatial architecture, it's the people crossing the concourse, shopping in the stores and getting refreshments, as we did, from a coffee stall. We took our drinks to chairs and tables laid out in the lower floor of the station, among the mix of people already enjoying refreshments there. Some were having just drinks, others snacks and some, substantial meals. I remember noticing a very smartly dressed man sitting opposite us at a table on his own and wearing a trilby hat. There were some American Military personnel on duty at the station and we asked one of these the way to the Chrysler building. This was not to take the lifts to the top, you understand, I was wanted to see New York as the city workers and apartment dwellers saw it and we didn't have much longer to do it. Going into the foyer of the Chrysler building is similar to entering a work of art. All in the art-deco style, much of the decoration is marquetry, polished and shining. Before I go back to the ship to sail to Newport, I must mention a few things we "happened upon" in New York, which I had read about in Helen Hanff's "Apple of my Eye". One was Battery Park, where there was once a battery of guns trained on the Hudson from Lower Manhattan. Here we saw a sculpture which looked a bit like some kind of grotesque egg, which was partially hatched. It was, in fact, a piece damaged when the twin towers of the World Trade Centre fell after the impact of the terrorists aircraft on 11th September 2001. Looking at that, I remembered watching the second plane impact the second tower with disbelief from our newsroom television and Steve, one of our photographers taking a picture of the screen for the following day's front page. Its typical of New York to simplify an expression and export it to the world... such as "9/ll". Opposite Battery Park was the museum of the Native American, which we did not have time to visit... there has to be a next time!