Word: manhattanization
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...took place at the beginning of the workday, timed to hurt as many innocents as possible. More than 50,000 people worked in each tower of the World Trade Center in an average day, and although many were fortunately able to escape, thousands are still feared dead. Much of Manhattan was covered by the rubble and dust of the collapse; residents were evacuated from parts of the island as bridges and tunnels were closed. The city itself was disfigured by the blasts, the most prominent features of its skyline now twisted piles of concrete and steel. Despite the long work...
Looking left on foggy days, there was nothing to be seen. A cloudy sky veiled downtown Manhattan, and the Twin Towers appeared to be gone. As if stolen, the magnificent architectural masterpieces were nowhere to be seen. On these mornings I wondered if Carmen Sandiego had plucked the towers out of the World Trade Center and carried them off to her secret hideout...
Those mornings outside my apartment building seem far away today. Yesterday morning, the buildings fell from their place in Manhattan's sky. They were not knocked down by ferocious wind. They were not stolen by a fictional thief. They were not hidden in the precipitation of a chilly New York morning...
...scene in mid-town Manhattan was other-worldly: "Like living through a disaster movie," said one New Yorker. To look south down 6th Avenue, one of those great Manhattan canyons, was to enter the realm of unreality. Great clouds of smoke, in a palette running from white, through gray, to black, billowed where the twin towers of the World Trade Center had stood. New Yorkers stood around, some weeping, others holding a hand over their mouth in the universal signal of shock. People pressed mobile phones to their ears, calling loved ones (though many of the mobile networks were overloaded...
...Heroes, that is, of the military kind. Yet as Manhattan stood still this morning, the everyday heroes where already about the work - sirens wailing, the police, fire services and ambulances headed downtown, and the hospitals readied themselves for putting into real-life practice the emergency drills for which they had long prepared. For the doctors and nurses, the fire crews and the police, this is a day that will lodge in the memory for ever. So it will for all of us in New York with less demanding and vital responsibilities, as we think of and pray for those charged...