Day Two in NYC - 9/22

We started the day in Greenwich Village. I've been doing Yamuna Body Rolling for 5 years so I could not pass up the opportunity to have a private consultation at their flagship studio there.Ben did some sightseeing around Greenwhich Village and met up with me lat morning. After Yamuna studio, we headed to Soho



and had lunch at Souen, a macrobiotic restaurant with a wide array of vegan choices. I had the Pad Thai and Ben had an amazing salad and could not resist trying some China Cola.






After lunch we headed downtown to the financial district. We took a 2 hour
Big Onion walking tour that covered the historical aspects of that area of the city. The Big Onion tours are all led by graduate students. Our guide was a PhD student from Columbia University who is studying American History. We had a small but diverse group with people from all over including Bombay, London, Sydney Australia, New Jersey, and Washington State.

We started our tour at Trinity Episcopal Church. The large sculpture of is a replica of the root from the tree that saved the church from destruction on 9/11/09.In 2005, artist Steve Tobin created a ten-foot-tall bronze sculpture of a sycamore tree’s root structure for Trinity Wall Street. The sycamore in question is known as “the tree that saved St. Paul’s Chapel,” because it took the brunt of damage from debris falling from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and the chapel remained relatively unscathed. You can see a video about the root sculpture here: http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/webcasts/videos/faith-culture/9-11/the-trinity-root










The first photo above is looking down Wall Street at the front of Trinity Church.


Below are some pics of the amazing architecture in downtown. It was so hard for us to stay focused on where we were walking as the architecture above us was so beautiful and so diverse. The first pic is of Bowling Green, the oldest park in the US.









These last pics are of the US Customs House which is now a Smithsonian Museum, right in front of Bowling Green. There are 4 statues on the front of the building representing Africa, Europe, the US, and Asia:









After the tour we could not help ourselves. We had to make our way over to check out the infamous sculpture of the Bull.Unfortunately, Ben only took some rear view photos as that seems to be the Bull's most popular angle.



Then we were off to the Brooklyn Bridge and made our way across it into Brooklyn.









After that we took the express subway home, to the peace and quiet of our apartment to rest up for our trip to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the Tenament Museum tomorrow.