Word: manhattanization
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Does anyone really fear dying in a nuclear blast? In my atomic nightmare, my family survives. A flash of light across the East River in Manhattan; a tremor and roar; a column of flame. Then the questions. Do we pack up the kids and flee? Duct tape the windows and hope for help? How much food is in the pantry? How strong are the locks on the doors...
...only neurotic urbanites are willing to imagine what comes after; high and mass culture are on a postapocalyptic kick. Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is an unflinching tour of an America rendered barbaric by a fiery cataclysm that ends most life on earth. NBC's Heroes depicts Manhattan destroyed; on Sci Fi network's Battlestar Galactica, billions die in a nuclear attack. And the most unlikely fall hit, CBS's Jericho, has more than 11 million people a week tuning in to visit a Kansas town that survives a nuking that has incinerated untold U.S. cities (taking, presumably, your...
...unseen outside world, millions of people in cities like mine could be incinerated, starving or in anarchy. But in at least one small town, life goes on, to a pop sound track, without us--without, in fact, much time or verbiage spent mourning us. Sitting in sight of the Manhattan skyline, I would say that's the scariest story...
...rent problems you’re forced to move out of Manhattan...to Vegas...
...plane circled the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor on the cloudy afternoon before heading uptown, where something went wrong. The plane's flight path was completely "legal" - operating in approved air space and under clear regulations. Small planes and helicopters are permitted to fly up and down Manhattan Island, over either the East River or the Hudson River to the west. Since much of the surrounding air space is the busiest in the U.S. - with hundreds of airliners and business jet flights going in and out of John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newark International and Teterboro airports, small planes...