Memories at ESB

“I came to New York for the first time in 1984. I was with my husband and that was our honeymoon. My husband had already been to New York and I remember that he took me to visit the city he knew well. Obviously a must-do was a visit to the Empire State Building. It was a great emotion to see the symbolic skyscraper in New York and to enjoy that unique panorama from its terrace. Only a few years earlier, the second King Kong movie had been released and my feelings during the visit were [like] being inside a movie.

I returned to New York 31 years later. Unfortunately, my husband is gone, but I wanted to return to that terrace with our daughter – taking a picture where my husband had taken it for me during our trip together. The skyline of New York has changed since then, but the emotion was the same. For a moment I closed my eyes and went back to being a happy young bride beside her beloved in one of the most amazing places in the world.”

“My good friend Sabrina [and I] went the same week everything started shutting down [due to Covid]. It was one of our dreams to go to New York City, see the Empire State Building, and go up [to] see the amazing view. It was everything I thought it would be and more! I’ll be coming back next month to visit again with two different friends.”