The USS New York sailed by Battery Park City this morning, an LPD-21 (whose name, I believe, means something like “landing platform deck”) stopping opposite the World Trade Center site. My camera didn’t work (or I didn’t know how to work it on a brisk morning), and settled for holding my shivering dog under my jacket, so I only have the “artist’s rendering” above.
The ship, in honor of New York, is made in part (probably extremely small part) from steel from the World Trade Center. The Hindu-temple-like stupas at the front are missile defense systems.
Bagpipes played the Marine corps anthem “From the Halls Of Montezuma”.
Fire boats sprayed blue and white water. (Their spray in the morning light, with the Statue of Liberty and huge grey ship in the background, and Hudson rippling on all sides, and ferry boats, and police boats, and little coast guard rubber style boats, was really quite beautiful.)
Eleven helicopters were counted.
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