Word: manhattanization
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...Manhattan, vacuums are opportunities. And even one as sad and sacred as the place where the World Trade Center stood can't remain inviolate for long. For weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, ground zero played host to all varieties of uncredentialed and unsupervised volunteers from all over the U.S.--the lobstermen from Maine, the barbecue guys from Dallas, the Gumbo Krewe from New Orleans. But in America, even tragedy becomes professionalized, and ground zero is now as distinct--and as commercial--a New York region as the theater district or the garment district. It's a throbbing 16-acre...
...morning of Sept. 11, Mike and E.J. drove into Manhattan together from their Staten Island home after Mike picked up bagels and cream cheese for the firehouse. "You're buying the guys breakfast and you don't even buy it for your own wife," she teased in the car. Shortly after 7 a.m., he dropped her off at the downtown Manhattan radiologist whom she assists. She gave Mike a quick peck on the cheek...
...first and second alarms sounded in unison at 8:47 at firehouses across lower Manhattan. The third was transmitted at 8:48 as a 10-60, code for a major emergency. No fourth alarm was necessary; at 8:56 the blaze was upgraded to a five-alarm fire. Because the night tour was just then being relieved, two shifts of men were milling around most firehouses, bantering about the morning's headlines (AIR WE GO AGAIN, blared the New York Post about Michael Jordan's comeback) and the previous evening's calls. That meant that double the men were...
...78th day after the attacks, Mike broached the topic of Sept. 11 with E.J. He was still on medical leave, but they drove into Manhattan for a dinner for the families of Ladder 11. The two were sitting in a bar in Alphabet City when Mike suddenly leaned in. "I just don't know what I'm supposed to be feeling about all of this," he told her. "I think I'm supposed to be feeling guilty, but I actually am thankful to be alive." And then he abruptly stopped talking...
...parking in Manhattan...