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...course, New York is not one thing. It?s especially not, or mostly not, Manhattan, which is only the third most populous borough (after Queens and Brooklyn) of the big five. To New Yorkers in Rego Park or Cypress Hills, Manhattan is ?the city? - the place they come to, through the bridges and tunnels lightly reviled by sophisticated Manhattanites, for a day?s work. Sometimes, their last day: few of the firemen and policemen killed on Sept. 11 died in the borough they lived in. New York, like any big city or small town, is an overlapping series of neighborhoods...
...mind I?ll drop the second and third capital letters from now on). You may have seen us on TV recently: we?re not far from the former World Trade Center. How not-close? Well, these days, anyone who lives or works in lower Manhattan brags about how close they are to Ground Zero. I live on Hudson Street, three blocks above Chambers Street - eight blocks from the northern hem of the World Trade Center complex. Or maybe we?re closer. In a recent interview in The Guardian, Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein said that the explosions ?happened six blocks away...
...Yorkers don?t know how short Manhattan?s north-south streets are. So, to put it in terms the American driving public can understand, we?re four-tenths of a mile away from the great crematorium. Tribeca is the nice place near the awful place: Beverly Hills down the block from Bosnia. But proximity to an instant cemetery gives us a vicarious creepiness, what with the acrid stench of compressed steel and flesh, and the constant police presence; a few weeks ago a three-foot concrete barricade was erected around the Western Union Building across the street, presumably because...
Individual caseworkers for up to 25,000 people may seem impractical, but one organization that's amenable to taking on at least part of the burden is Manhattan-based Safe Horizon. With 800 employees, it is the largest victim-assistance organization in the country. To date, Safe Horizon has given 11,280 people checks averaging about $900, most of them written on the spot. It is widely viewed as one of the relief effort's most effective agencies. After targeting a need--short-term funding for people who lived and worked near ground zero--Safe Horizon's CEO Gordon Campbell...
...60th anniversary of Curious George fell at a busy time for the country's No. 1 George. But other noted Georges gathered at the Children's Museum in Manhattan to read aloud. Politico GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, writer GEORGE PLIMPTON, former TV-anchor PHYLLIS GEORGE and comic GEORGE WALLACE were there, although Carlin, Foreman and Boy weren't. Politico George is used to spending time with monkeys. "People send me Curious George paraphernalia," he said. Plimpton found relief from turbulent times: "Children's literature," he said, "is not much stricken by outside things." This year, however, money to be raised from...