By Jeremy Kahn

christianpost.com file photo: Yankee Stadium site of the San Francisco Giants-New York Yankees series this weekend

NEW YORK-The Where is Jeremy Kahn Baseball Tour continued on Wednesday.

Following the San Francisco Giants loss to the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night, Wednesday began a new day in the City of Boston.

After not completing the Freedom Trail on Tuesday, I set out to complete it and that is what I did.

I left my hotel around 9:00 on Wednesday, and once again followed the Freedom Trail, but I was able to cut off some monuments that I saw on Tuesday. I headed towards Fanueil Hall and Quincy Market, and once past Paul Revere’s house and the North Church, it was time to the cross the bridge and go to Charlestown.

Once you get into Charlestown, and you reach Bunker Hill. While at Bunker Hill, you can go into the monument and walk the 294 steps to top of the monument.

Following Bunker Hill it was onto the USS Constitution and the final stop on the Freedom Trail. Although, I was unable to go onto the Constitution, I was able to go thru the Visitor’s Center and see the different sites of “Old Ironsides.”

While walking on the bridge, I was able to see TD Garden, the home of the Celtics and the Boston Bruins. Even though I was unable to get into the Garden; because it was closed, I was able to take a selfie in front of a door that led to the Garden with my Lakers hat on the top of my head.

After leaving the Garden, I headed to Quincy Market, where I had Clam Chowder out of a bread bowl from Boston Clam Chowder Restaurant. Quincy Market is kind of like the Ferry Building in San Francisco, Pike Place Market in Seattle and Reading Terminal in Philadelphia, it is filled with restaurants that popularize in different foods from the Boston area.

Then it was back to my hotel, and then on to finale of the brief two-game series at Fenway Park against the Red Sox.

Following another loss to the Red Sox, and getting about four and a half hour sleep, it was time to check out of my hotel in Boston and head to South Station for my 7:15 Acela Express to Pennsylvania Station in New York.

After a three and a hour train ride to NYC, we arrived at 10:45 and instead of hopping on the Subway, I decided to walk the 14 blocks to my hotel at the corner of West 48th St. & 7th Ave.

I was in my hotel room for all of maybe 15 minutes, before heading out to start my day of sightseeing in New York.

Even though I have been here before, there is some where I have yet to go, since it was opened the last time I was in town and that is the 9/11 Memorial.

I arrived at the Memorial at around 12:30, and it was time to see and remember that fateful day in 2001.

Once you are in the memorial it becomes very chilling and emotional, as within the first five minutes of me being in there, I had tears streaming down my face. I was able to see the entire memorial, and it was one of the most moving and emotional experiences I have ever had in my life.

While in the museum, you are literally in the World Trade Center and you are reliving that day thru video, phone calls and pictures. There is also FDNY Fire Engines that were destroyed at that day, pieces of all four planes and pieces of the World Trade Center that were preserved after the demolition what remained.

Actually, prior to going into the Memorial, I knew I was going to be emotional; because in 2010, my last trip to NYC, I went to the World Trade Center Visitors Museum and I broke down after meeting the mother of a FDNY Firefighter who died on that day. The day September 11 is very hard for me, as it was my grandmother’s birthday and despite the fact that my grandmother passed away in 1979, we always remember her birthday.

Following three and 45 minutes inside the Memorial, I was on my to get something to eat and I got the Subway at Courtland Street and headed to the Lower East Side for Katz’s Deli on East Houston Street. Once inside there, I ordered a Corned Beef on rye with pickles. This was one of the best sandwiches I had in my life. After finishing my sandwich, it was back to the Subway and back to my hotel.

I decided to call a night after getting back to my hotel, as I knew Friday was going to be a long day.

On the recommendation of both George Devine, Jr., and Michael Duca, I needed to go the NYC Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn and what a great recommendation it was.

Upon arriving there, I thought it was going to be at least $20.00 to go in; because the 9/11 Memorial was $24.00 for adults.

Boy was I wrong, as it was just $7 for adults and $5 for children. Usually, people spent about 90 minutes there; however I spent two hours there and had a fantastic time learning the history of the NYC Transit System and was able to see trains and buses from different eras.

I left Brooklyn, and headed to 32 Spring Street for lunch at the first Pizzeria in the United States, Lombardi’s a place that was established in 1905.

Famous for their coal pizza, it was one of the best pizzas I have ever had and it is definitely on my places to go to again.

After lunch, it was back to my hotel and head to the Bronx for the Giants against the New York Yankees and the beginning of a three-game series.