Library Owl

3rd Oct, 2011

Staten Island Ferry → Castle Clinton/Battery Park → National Museum of American Indian (Day 5, Part 1 ends here.)

→ Bowling Green → Charging Bull on Wall Street → Wall Street → World Financial Center

I started this day quite late in the morning. Missed the bus to the train station, and was tired out due to wandering around the city on the previous day. Since I arrived Manhatten around 11:30AM, plans for wandering around needed to alter a bit. I took Red #1 Subway to 

檢視較大的地圖 

Staten Island Ferry Station

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Governors Island Ferry Station

Governors Island only opens to the public during summer. A shame that I can't visit there during this time.

On the way to Staten Island, looking back at Mahatten. 

Brooklyn Bridge

 Liberty Statue

Staten Island Ferry

 Right outside the Battery Park.

Navy Memorial for soldiers died.

 Clinton Castle

The statue is in memory for all the immigrants who board the US soil from Clinton Castle, once served as US custom.

 Every figure on the statue is full with expressions and emotions. It's stunning just to walk around and admire how the artist set it up.

 The bronze statue once situated in the twin towers. It was placed here as a memorial of the tragedy happened on 11th September, 2001. 

National Museums of the American Indians

http://www.americanindian.si.edu/visit/newyork/ 

The musuem siuated in the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. The building is still used as courthouse nowadays. It's astunishing to see the colourfully painted ceiling in the Custom House. The statues, columns and reliefs outside the building are intriguing for people who are interested in architecture as well. To be honest, I was drawn to the musuem due to it's intricate walls outside. 

The museum belongs to the Smithsonium system. It's free and open to the public. If one is really interested in aboriginal cultures and arts, it's somewhere worth stopping by. 

It's interesting that I found myself to be able to distinguish artifacts from British Columbia, Canada in the museum without reading the texts. Perhaps it's something I did pick up after staying 4 months in Vancouver and an afternoon visit at Anthropolgy Museum on UBC campus.