Word: downtowner
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...taken on a larger meaning. "I realize," said Yankee manager Joe Torre, "and the players realize that all of a sudden our responsibility was more than just to baseball fans. It was to the city of New York, to represent them and bring a smile to their face." Downtown, in the Battery, the smoldering pyre of the World Trade Center was grudgingly yielding the bodies of fire fighters and cops killed in the attack. Uptown, in the Bronx, Yankee Stadium had become a cathedral of catharsis, the participants emptying their lungs at full volume, as if exhaling a cheer...
...know I would make more money in downtown Boston, but in the Square, there will be that one person who stops and understands what I’m doing,” she says...
...Tuesday the city was in a sports frenzy. Washington D.C.?s most famous citizen showed up. So did the President. With Michael Jordan downtown making his third basketball comeback against the Knicks, President Bush choppered in to the South Bronx to toss the first ball, two days after the government issued a warning about a new round of terrorist attacks. Ticket scalpers were having an early Christmas. While Bush was heaving a floater over for a strike, fans were still lined up outside, impatiently waiting to get through an army of cops and metal detectors and into the ballparks...
...downtown the train passes NYU, where Stango goes to school now. Stango’s been the author of a number of memorable Loop moments, including one that happened when we all showed up at a Met game one year and it happened to be Jewish Heritage Day at Shea. None of us are Jewish. We’re a couple of Irish guys, a couple of Italian guys, a Chinese kid and me, the black guy. We’re all Catholic...
...Does this mean that you don't walk to lunch or drive downtown? Of course not, because you realize the likelihood of these events is sufficiently small so that you're not too worried (except in certain exceedingly rough, urban areas, where people should be appropriately cautious...