Word: uptowners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when we heard another loud noise and saw a large cloud of smoke coming towards us. Everyone was again screaming and running towards the pier. After we had run a few more blocks, Kristin, Kersten, Dee and I decided that the safest thing to do would be to walk uptown...
...Here is the other thing about the heroism we saw and read about: these were for the most part the back office people of the financial world and the Port Authority and government services. The Masters of the Universe work uptown. The moguls who do work in the WTC for the most part don't catch the early train to get in by 9. How people behaved was in many cases inversely proportional to their position in the corporate hierarchy. WTC security guard Esmerlin Salcedo was in no peril on the day of the attack since he was attending...
...Further uptown, Union Square hosted a bustling donation site over the weekend, as volunteers from NYU and elsewhere accepted overwhelming gifts of food, clothing and rescue equipment for the rescue workers and those displaced by the collapse...
...With a vengeance, as it turned out, but a rational and contained one that by 10:30 had ceased to be terrifying. Time to head uptown...
...center of the terrorist winter, surrounded by men and women working day and night to help the living and recover the dead. He had come to thank the people the whole world wanted to thank - thecops and fire fighters, the pipe fitters and welders who had left their jobs uptown to pull up the ruins downtown, the paramedics working 36-hour shifts. As much as anyone or anything, it was the images of these people doing their grim, ceaseless work that kept the country together. Bush was at home among them...