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...feat. After calling out Larry’s name for a good five minutes (as if he’d really answer to that), we settled for the “deliveries only” entrance and belted out the traditional Halloween call: “Trick-or-Treat! Smell my feet! Give me something good...
...this as I took my bike out Sunday morning to do a familiar loop around my neighborhood (I live a half mile away from World Trade Center). Squeezing between police cars and roadblocks, I soon turned around, mostly because the smell––an acrid, chemical smell-had settled permanently in the air. Making a slow turn onto my street, I looked up, and for the first time in the fifteen years that I have been looking up, the view had irrevocably, permanently changed. My eye struggled to fill in the blank behind the yellow church...
...they?re gone; as someone said, it?s as if the New York skyline were suddenly missing its two front teeth. Standing on our roof, we can see its absence and smell its remains. Because the towers have vanished, the light is different: late in the afternoon, the Woolworth Building gets a golden sunbath. We also have a view (that view) of Ground Zero. In the past week a huge American flag has been draped from an older building nearby...
While the neighborhood's social fabric has been torn, its environment has yet to be restored, which has caused anxiety among local parents. Ever since the towers collapsed in clouds of dust and debris, residents have complained about the smell and expressed concern about possible hazardous particles in the air. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman tried to reassure the neighborhood earlier this month by saying, "Contaminant levels are low or nonexistent [and] generally confined to the Trade Center site." But some parents aren't convinced. "There can be a 20- to 40-year lag time before people show...
...does anyone else have hot water yet? It’s been a solid 36 hours now without it. I feel like if there’s more of a delay in student showering, already spotty at Harvard, we’ll have to rename Eliot House to Smell-iot House.… Is there something we need to do to get hot water? Did I not pay some bill...