
We paused at Murray Avenue contemplating whether to catch a bus back uptown or to continue walking. The ancient the Cathedral of Commerce that is the Woolworth Building gleamed in the late morning sunlight as it has for over eighty years. Another church saved from the destruction. Across the Hudson we could see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. In the midst of the destruction here were these well known and long enduring symbols, so big as to send a clear message to the whole world and yet able to make that message special to each individual.
Lee ran off down Murray Avenue in search of a photograph. We waited a couple of minutes and then followed him. We met up and saw that we were now on the north side of the site and should just continue back to Broadway and complete our circumnavigation of the site.
[an essay in 13 parts from Pablo Notes, 2001]