I’ll occasionally post older photos on Fridays throughout the summer, not necessarily of New York.
When I first moved to New York in late 1984, I was a lawyer with The Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Appeals Bureau at 15 Park Row, just a block from the World Trade Center (you can see the two green cupolas atop 15 Park Row, left of center and low in the photo, across from the Woolworth Building). So I visited the top of World Trade many times during my first years here, especially when friends came to town. This shot was taken during one of those visits, looking down toward the East River and the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, with Brooklyn beyond. It’s from a scanned slide that I shot probably some time in 1985.
Before I retired one of the State offices I supervised was on Maiden Lane. For some reason I never walked over to the Towers and rode up. Stupid. I was down there a few weeks ago with a cousin and we went and looked at the waterfalls that sit in the footprints of where the Towers stood. Very nice tribute. In 1970 I took the science club I was supervising in my first year as a Biology teacher upstate to the city. The kids had never been to the city so we rode the subway and the Staten Island Ferry and walked over to where they were building the towers and gawked for awhile. Thanks for this great photo. I will make it my screen saver. Is it for sale?
I seem to remember one weekend (before Sara) when we visited and took Chris and Kathleen up there for the view. Thanks for posting!