Where Am I?
You are currently browsing stories tagged with 9/11 and its aftershocks
Niketown, Your Town
by Russell Ricard 06/26/2008Neighborhood: Upper East Side
December 2001. Like every other New Yorker, it still feels like the towers just fell. Bush said spend, Bloomberg called upon you to stimulate the economy. Niketown, Your Town. The makeshift commercial plays in your head as you peruse the store; it is after all one of your favorite places. Just do it. Besides, it’ll [...]
Survivorship
by erika 02/23/2008Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Williamsburg
I went out with my friend Dylan last night. We met in 2003 on the internet. Tried dating, but were better friends than anything. He was the first person I met when I moved back to New York and looking to date. I had left because my husband was killed in the World Trade Center. Dylan [...]
A Subway Hope
by Ella Mei Yon Biggadike 01/13/2008Neighborhood: West Village
I am standing on the F train platform, my toes just over the yellow line. I lean toward the darkness of the train tunnel. In the distance I can see the faint, low-lit squares of train windows passing through the darkness. Then there is the hollow rumble of the F train approaching from in between [...]
Photographs of the World Trade Center, Before and After
by Nathan Chaffee 06/04/2006Neighborhood: World Trade Center
These pictures were taken from Spring Street and Lafayette Street. And some from "before…"
Why There Is Rust
by Stan Friedman 12/31/2003Neighborhood: Morningside Heights
Aspiring poets learn, early on, the value of concrete imagery; of replacing metaphorically huge words with small sensory explosions which blow the reader into reality. Allen Ginsberg didn’t write “live life,” he wrote of those “who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup.” Sylvia Plath didn’t say, “I mourn the [...]
Scumbags with Cameras
by Thomas Beller 04/02/2003Neighborhood: Upper West Side
Photographs by Alexej Steinhardt and Thomas Beller Click here for more information about the 360 One VR When not in use however, the attachment comes with a plastic jar that screws over the mirror ball, to protect it. The plastic jar makes it look downright lethal, weird, and mad-scientistish, and I was a little concerned about wandering [...]
The New York–Baghdad Connection
by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 03/28/2003Neighborhood: Manhattan
Day three 1,300 cruise missiles and bombs hit Baghdad. At work I have to use the freight elevator to bring my bicycle into the office. The elevator’s operated by an older Eastern European man with a deeply lined face and thinning hair. He dresses in the company uniform and a pair of beaten Air Jordans. It’s always [...]
A Real Bomb in America’s Secret War
by Nhek Sarin 03/28/2003Neighborhood: Letter From Abroad
A flaming sunset in western Cambodia, in the middle of 1972. I was coming back from my uncle’s house. I was about 500 meters from my house, when there were suddenly terrific sounds, like thunderclaps, “Boom! Boom! Boom!” Immediately, I saw the spark and the firelight emerging into the flaming sky. I was very frightened and [...]
Notes and Pictures From An Anti-War Rally
by Thomas Beller 03/24/2003Neighborhood: Manhattan
I took a taxi to the peace rally. My driver was a Puerto Rican guy playing loud salsa music. There was no partition. Some post cards were taped to his dash. He sat in the driver’s seat with pride of ownership. It was his cab, I was his guest. He had the window down and [...]
Ladies & Gentlemen at the Rally
by Debbie Nathan 02/16/2003Neighborhood: Midtown
The cold wreaked transformation: bone chilling and serious, the kind that keeps people home, yet here we were, all of us, shivering, waving signs, gleeful. Maybe half a million, and if the media says otherwise don’t believe it. Half a million! Could we really stop a war? At times like this, people change. I saw possible [...]
9/11 Archive
by Thomas Beller 12/26/2002Neighborhood: Multiple, World Trade Center
The View From the Seventieth Floor by Sandy Gelpieryn Death Masks at Ground Zero by Kendra Hurley The Numbers by Bryan Charles The View From Silver Lake Park by Gabrielle Walter Don’t Look Back by Kevin McLeod Scenes From The Brooklyn Bridge by Jim Merlis The View From Long Island Part Ii by Adam Baer Ob Gyn Wtc by Kevin McLeod On Giving Blood by Carolyn Murnick So Big Vitality by Christian Bonnard He was [...]
Noppi
by Eugenia Klopsis 10/30/2002Neighborhood: Financial District
1. Well, that’s it, Noppi, I’m up early again, I can’t sleep. My throat is killing me and I’m coughing. I think it’s the smoke because everyone else has it too. The subways are quiet. People bump into each other and don’t apologize. A woman slips in through the closing doors and takes the seat beside me. [...]
