NEW YORK CITY – More than 34,500 visitor passes to the new Sept. 11 Memorial are gone — distributed Monday in just the first hours after the ticket website went live. The online reservation system for the tickets was up at 9 a.m., and 5,000 were secured for various dates in just the first hour of operation. The quick response is “what we were hoping for — that people would be interested in the site the public has not set foot in for 10 years,” Joe Daniels, president and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, told The Associated Press. The memorial plaza opens to the public on Sept. 12, a day after the 10th anniversary. The 9/11 Memorial features two enormous waterfalls and reflecting pools, each about an acre in size, set within the footprints of the original twin towers.