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...recovered unharmed, and the FBI declined to press charges. But O'Neill will not be remembered for that anomalous mistake. After the first strike on the Trade Center, it is believed he evacuated his 34th-floor office in the north tower. He made a few calls from the sidewalk--including one to his son to let him know he was unharmed and one to FBI headquarters. Then he went back in to help with the rescue effort. He has not been seen since. --By Josh Tyrangiel/Reported by Benjamin Nugent...
During my long walk home Tuesday, it was on a block of lower Third Avenue--that is, the Bowery--that I first felt reassured. All the storefront missions were hopping, their doors wide open. The mission workers were on the sidewalk exuding matter-of-fact competence as they offered their services--water, bathrooms, food, telephones, first aid--to the thousands of anxious strangers passing by. A few of the regular clientele, people accustomed to walking the streets dazed and dirty, stood aside, watching their temporarily down-and-out fellow citizens accept handouts...
...passing. Four small American flags flutter on the vehicle—ambassadorial style. Drunk men peer out of its darkened windows, waving 40s of malt liquor in hand and yelling, “Go America! Go America! Go America!” All the party people, standing on a sidewalk still wet from rain, reward this chant with a tipsy round of applause...
Crescent Street is nestled in a corner off Oxford Street, just past Lesley College and Agassiz Elementary School., a ten-minute walk from the Square. In the afternoon, squealing children play outside. A black-and-white housecat with a silver collar wanders skittishly down the tree-lined sidewalk. Two houses sport large American flags. Jenkins lived at 22 Crescent Street, a well-kept gray house with a white staircase and simple red door that had been his home for nearly two decades...
Others chose to forgo political discussions to concentrate on psychological healing. Nikki Boroni, a musician from Park Slope, Brooklyn, crouched on the Union Square steps in front of a sprawling series of messages, which passersby had scribbled on the ground with pastel sidewalk chalk...