If you take a wrong turn in NYC, you often run into something interesting which makes the extra walking worth the effort.
I came upon the 911 Tile Memorial yesterday in Greenwich Village as I was headed in the wrong direction. It is simply a chain link fence with thousands of small individually decorated tiles attached. Apparently the original ones made shortly after 911 were stolen, but thousands were sent from all over the country to replace them.
Last year each one of tiles was hastily, but carefully, removed to preserve them from Hurricane Irene.
