Yonkers American Patriot Garden is in the Sculpture Meadows of Yonkers Esplanade Park on the Hudson River and was dedicated in 2003. The WTC could be seen from this vantage. The poetry in three granite plaques focuses on the themes of remembrance, renewal and hope. Lee Weintraub who designed the garden.
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The Journal News reports Hudson & Pacific Designs of Saugerties will create a memorial to New Castle’s three September 11 victims at the Bicentennial/Duck Pond Park in Chappaqua The idea to build a memorial in Chappaqua originated with Michael Wolfensohn, a town resident who was friends with Inghilterra. He raised money, developed a design and proposed to build the memorial at the Duck Pond. The town originally approved the memorial there but then rescinded it when neighbors complained about the location and lack of public input in choosing a memorial. A lawsuit was filed against the Town Board by opponents but was later dismissed. Two small sections from the WTC have been awarded.
New Castle Page on the Duck Pond
Mapquest Map
The Journal News reports that the cost of the Westchester 911 Memorial has risen from $200,000 to $950,000. The memorial consists of 109 intertwined stainless steel rods would “soar to 80 feet” above Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla. The news on the increase came Monday in a letter from an architect working for Frederick Schwartz, whose THINK team of architects was the runner-up for the redesign of the World Trade Center site. In it, architect Henry Rollmann said engineers who analyzed the design for the memorial’s 109 steel rods, which would rise like spokes from a circular granite base to form the 80-foot tower, concluded that the rods “would not be adequate to withstand the forces acting on them,” including gravity, without reinforcement. The memorial is to be built above Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla. An article in Journal News on Feb. 15, 2005, notes the Westchester legislature is very exassberated with the cost overrun.
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