Sit on one of these benches in Battery Park and you might be in for a surprise.  The harbor waters wash under the promenade, shooting up quite powerfully through several grates that were presumably installed to let rainwater drain away.

You can see the Goldman Sachs building in the distance on the Jersey side of the Hudson River behind the spray and the rainbow.

Talking of things aqueous, I spotted dozens of portable lavatories being loaded onto trucks and carted away from the World Trade Center site.

The "policy" not to have any facilities there for the general public is cruel and unecessary: think children, think granny, think you and those waterfalls...

Of course, on September 11th, it wasn't the general public, it was a bunch of important folk.  Gives a whole new meaning to VIPee.