Friday, December 30, 2011

Trinity Church & Wall St.

On our recent trip to NYC we also visited the Wall Street area of Manhattan. We walked around and through Trinity Church and then headed down Broadway to see the iconic Wall Street sculpture Charging Bull. Unfortunately, the bull is still under constant police surveillance and barricaded to prevent anyone from approaching it. We walked back a few blocks until we could skirt the truck barricades and crowd-control fencing and walk past the front of the New York Stock Exchange, a tree that appears bigger than the one at Rockefeller Center, and Federal Hall.

Many of the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters have moved on now that Zuccotti Park has been cleared out (eventually I may get around to posting some of the pictures that I happened to take during the first week of the protests back in September). Anyway, the police presence at the NSYE is considerably smaller now but the barricades there, just like at the bull, still remain in place. I suppose most of the cops have migrated north with the crowds flocking to Times Square and Rockefeller Center.


Trinity Church - Looking South on Broadway


Ashes from a thousand candles




Bull Pen -- The Charging Bull sculpture is guarded and fenced off from tourists


Now that's a Christmas tree


George Washington surveys the NYSE from the steps of Federal Hall


"Integrity Protecting the Works of Man" -- Pediment sculpture by John Quincy Adams Ward


Hello, there George


Trinity Church looking west up Wall Street

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