Word: manhattanization
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Soon after the World Trade Centers collapsed, the streets of downtown Manhattan were plastered with signs seeking missing people—pictures, names and descriptions of those not yet accounted for, posted by family and friends. But another group was absent even from the ranks of the missing: the undocumented immigrants working in the towers. Some of these workers have since been identified as missing; others remain nameless...
...women in business suits buzzed on cell phones as they bustled from building to building in Lower Manhattan, and taxi cabs zipped through the streets where vendors hawked their wares...
...that even after having been forced to evacuate the building, flee from the collapsing second tower and hike three hours to his home in the Bronx—on just his fourth day of high school—he is not scared to be going to school in Lower Manhattan...
...first impression. He missed with Steve Campbell, a New York City police officer whose wife was killed in the World Trade Center collapse. "Your offer spits on my wife, spits on my son and spits on my father-in-law," Campbell told him during one of Feinberg's first Manhattan meetings with the families of Sept. 11 victims. The Campbell meeting was not rock bottom. "Staten Island," says Feinberg. "Staten Island was the worst. Very, very heated. Just awful. It's on CNN; I've got the tape if you want...
...well represented in this book, which spans 40 years. In the first piece, he is a harassed and hard-up Trinidadian traveler in India in 1962. In the last essay he is venerable, addressing rubious generalities on such precepts as the Golden Rule to an august gathering at the Manhattan Institute in New York. His topic: "Our Universal Civilization." In the past, stuck for a book-length subject at home, he hoped to find it abroad as a reporter with a round-trip airfare. Except for one piece, all the essays here have appeared in print before, most in collections...