Posted on 01/04/2017 12:55:29 PM PST by wheresmyusa
About 50 million people visit New York every year and more than eight million live there but no one seems to have heard of The Teardrop...which is odd because it is a 100ft tall, 175-ton memorial to those who died on the city's blackest day.
Learning of its existence by chance, I tried to discover more from locals at Ground Zero, where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre stood until September 11, 2001, and was met with blank expressions.
Our search began at the World Trade Centre station, where a train took us to Exchange Place in New Jersey. From then on, instructions were vague - we had to catch a light-railway tram for eight stops along the Jersey shoreline to 34th Street in Bayonne and ask around.
Eventually someone walked by and kindly offered to call a local taxi firm on his mobile. He'd never heard of The Teardrop but luckily the taxi driver had. He drove us two miles across a wasteland which was once an army base until we came to an isolated quay.
And there, high on a mound, stood the monument - a massive bronze-clad block with a great gash down the middle into which is suspended a 40ft, four-ton shiny nickel teardrop.
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W.O.W. *Speechless*
I guess that Russians have not yet heard of “modern art” (aka kitchy crap that passes for monuments these days).
Breathtaking.
I remember reading about it and seeing it many years back. Very beautiful and meaningful. It should have center stage at the memorial, not be parked in a backwater.
Oops - my bad, that is where the sculptor wanted to put it [blush] - still a shame that not enough people see it.
Thank you, Ivan.
I’ve never heard of this.
I was completely unaware too.
“Vaguely reminiscent of those silly fake scrotums that dooshbags affix to their pick up trucks.”
I reserve judgement on things like this until I’ve actually seen them. It can make a huge difference in perception. I didn’t “get” the Vietnam Memorial until I actually stood there. Not ashamed to admit I cried.
Didn’t know this existed.
What? Scrotum? U r an @ss.
Truly, this extraordinary and meaningful 'Teardrop' memorial puts the Ground Zero and Shanksville memorials (both of which are unabashed tributes to Islam) to shame.
It’s a beautiful, sophisticated piece of modern sculpture writ large, combining light and dark, rough and smooth, order and disorder. The color and texture of the primary structure recall the way sunlight would filter through the whole building from one side to the other in the morning or evening, making them look sort of golden, with a texture on the outside.
It’s almost tempting to think something special might happen due to the position of the sun in the morning on September 11, it looks as if it might.
Pity that it’s in Bayonne. It deserves to be better known.
I live in the vicinity, but still out of the way. Takea trip on google streets..
Travel down Port Terminal BLVD https://www.google.com/maps/@40.663864,-74.0697148,3a,75y,90h,84.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skJ9JWBXIFySl-iyAffACFw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
Good links! TY!
I had never heard of it either. I just put it on fb.
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