Fifty Favorites, Number Nine

11 Sept '08 -- For several years after 9/11 the anniversary of the attack would be marked by memorials to lost friends and relatives appearing on the fences surrounding Ground Zero.  The poignancy of this particular picture had a powerful effect on me when I visited the site that night, and it still does today.

Tiles For America, Greenwich Village

Tiles For America is a 9/11 memorial consisting of hundreds of tiles expressing the thoughts and emotions of New Yorkers in the days after the attacks which are displayed on a block-long fence at the corner of 7th Avenue and 11th Street in Greenwich Village, directly across the street from the building that until recently was St. Vincent's Hospital. It was at St. Vincent's on the night of Sept. 11th that thousands of volunteers waited in line to give blood in anticipation of the arrival of survivors. Because the tiles are relatively weather-proof and the fence is on private property, this grass roots memorial stands to this day.

Lest We Forget, Ground Zero

Ground Zero

Ground Zero

Ground Zero

Herald Square

One of the "white bicycles" in NYC commemorating the location where a bicyclist was killed.

Flatiron District

Financial District

Financial District

Ground Zero

Sunnyside, Queens

Central Park Transverse

Grant's Tomb

Financial District

The gravestone of Alexander Hamilton in the Trinity Church cemetery

Ground Zero