You see I moved here and one of the things I love about the place is the architecture. I wanted to be an architect at one point or an historian and this city has some of the best of both.
The Woolworth building.
The cities first real “Oh my God it’s a skyscraper!”
The Flatiron building.
She raises from the street like a ship heading uptown.
The Art Deco masterpieces of the Chrysler building and the Empire State.
The all glass buildings especially the ones down in Battery Park City. They look beautiful with the Statue or the magnificent Brooklyn Bridge in their foreground.
And the icing on the cake were the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
They were not the past or the present but the future. Their size and sleek lines looked straight out of some futuristic science fiction movie.
And that is what is getting to me now.
It’s like they took the future. There is no tomorrow. At least not one to look forward to.
I’m sorry it takes me a while to express my feelings but that’s me.
Zebra, there’s a future and its going to be a good one. There’s even a chance that the Towers will be rebuilt, though its too soon to say for sure. Everyone who looks at the NYC skyline thinks that there’s something unnatural about the Towers being gone.
It may be hard to believe that things aren’t going to get better at this time, but remember that no one knew at the start of WW II how long it would last or what the costs of that war would be. We survived it, and we’ll survive this one as well. And we’ll be the better nation for it.
Nicely said, ** Tuckerfan **. I love wandering around NYC & seeing & taking photos of the buildings. I loved taking the Water Taxi from the NJ side just to see the skyline. My trip in Nov. was difficult, but I did it anyway & look forward to the future skyline. I’m dying to get there to see the light twin towers in person. Peace.
I know that on an occasion or two, I climbed Campgaw Mtn, in Mahwah NJ, with a little lady to look at the NYC skyline. I also distinctly remember going up the first hill in Ramsey on southbound 17, seeing the majestic crown jewel of the skyline right down the road.
While the War on Terrorism is a personal one for me (ask GingerOfTheNorth where I was, and if they attacked my mother), I think the biggest loss for me is a part of home. Yes, the skyline of New York City is a fond memory of home for me.
Honestly, I do hope they rebuild the towers - completely. They were great structures, being modern and fitting. They did what they were engineered to do at the time: get hit by an airliner. To let a feature such as some twin towers be lost to future threat would be a mistake, in my humble opinion and heart.
I still haven’t been home yet since everything happened, but I’d like to see the new skyline.
Hey, don’t mention it. I’ve bawled my eyes out over the whole mess numerous times and I’m sure I’ll do it again. Its especially poignant for me the loss of the two buildings because my Junior year of high school we went to NYC and ate at the top of one of the Towers, now they, along with my childhood home, are gone. I can’t do anything about the greedy bastards who forced my mother out of the house she lived in for thirty years, but you can bet your ass that I’ll help in anyway I can to see those Towers rebuilt.
In some ways I think that 9/11 was good for us as a nation. It woke us up and reminded all of us that the world’s a dangerous place and that there are things more important than our own self-interests. I’m sure we’ve all grown closer to the people we care about since then. Its a damn shame that it took the deaths of 3,000 innocent people to do it, but its better than us not caring at all.