Visiting New York, September 21, 2001

I ran into this Con Edison (electric company) truck on my way to Union Square Park. Click here to see my own version of this poster.

Union Square Park -- a major gathering point.	Tibetan monk chanting at Union Square Park	Union Square Park	Missing people posters at Union Square Park
Ground Zero. This is World Trade Tower 5 -- what I saw when I stepped out of the Fulton Street subway station.	World Trade Tower 5.	Looking down a side street.	What's left of World Trade Tower 2. Taken from Maiden Lane -- the closed and most dramatic view.
World Trade Tower 2. Windows in building in background have been blown out.	I'm not sure what these guys were looking at, but it wasn't anything that caused me to turn.	The crowd standing with me at Maiden Lane.	Another shot from from Maiden Lane.
Building directly behind World Trade Center.	This was taken from Liberty Lane, the next street down. Smoke was still billowing out. Part of the side of the nearby building was ripped off.	This is the church at the top of Wall Street and Broadway. Police and military were everywhere.	New York Stock Exchange.
	I walked down to the tip of Manhattan (Battery Park). Basically a military zone.	Then I walked up the West side where there were far fewer people and where many workers were busy hauling debris.	Steel girders being hauled from the site. I saw truck after truck like this.
Unlike the east side (i.e., Broadway), the west side of lower Manhattan hadn't been cleaned up. Papers that were blown out the windows of the towers were everywhere. Reading some of these was very difficult.	That gray matter is a combination of pulverized concrete, ash, dirt, asbestos, other building materials, and I hate to think what else. It had rained the night before so it was clumped together.	You can see a fire truck in this mangle. Residents could get into some of these buildings, but only to carry out what they could carry.	This was also taken from the west side.
	The truckers always looked gloom or angry and determined.	Here's a French Canadian television crew doing a live broadcast. Moments later, some rednecks walked by, one saying, "F***ing foreigners."	This faces the World Trade Center.
Washington Square was similar to Union Square...	with many heartbreaking posters like this....	and this.	We were in New York in February and stayed at the World Trade Center Marriot, which was wedged in between the two towers and obviously destroyed. The kids loved looking out the window because the towers were right there. Here's a link to our photos.

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