Week Seven: October 23-29
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| More from Milton Glaser |
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| Love for sale |
Week 7 brings sales, sales, sales. Retailers fear a grim holiday season.
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God Bless America
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Farmer’s Market, Union Square
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| Whoever took our flag... |
Halloween approaches, creeping in between the flags.
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Boo
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| Union Square |
An accidental scaffold collapse near Union Square kills 4 workers and injures 14. There are some sighs of relief from the Farmer’s Market when onlookers hear what happened—many still equate multiple sirens with terrorism.
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Xpecting to get in
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| Bryant Park |
Bill Gates launches Windows XP in Bryant Park amid heightened security: no bags, no cameras, photo ID please.
Sting opens with An Englishman in New York.
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Day traitors?
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Not the answer
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| The other terrorists |
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| Both want war |
Farther south, the East Village hosts a mixed campaign of posters and stickers: commercial, political, protest, cryptic.
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Bar codes
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Essential Liberty
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Mourn war
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A good adhesive is essential for longevity; many controversial posters are torn down as soon as they are put up.
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| 48 over neon |
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| Paint over 50 |
Other neighborhoods memorialize in their own ways; in the Village, peace flags. In Chelsea, NYPD snow globes and patriotic club gear.
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Support our troops
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| Marilyn looks on |
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44th St & 8th Ave
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“Going to ground zero around heroes”
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| NYC from the deck of the Intrepid |
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| Iwo Jima |
Midtown, the message is simple and serial: United we stand.
On the way to the Intrepid Museum, I stumble upon the same overcome fireman statue I’d seen on Day 8, still waiting to be delivered to Ground Zero.
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The WWII aircraft carrier Intrepid
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| Empire State Building |
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Cold
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Valid ID
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Bryant Park
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From the top of the Empire State Building, the “Capitol of the Capital of the World,” you can see 4 states.
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Other bars he lays before me
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| Old Glory |
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East: Queens & Brooklyn
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North: Rockefeller Center, the Chrysler Building, the U.N., etc.
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South: the Flatiron Building and lower Manhattan
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| Down |
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| West: Madison Square Garden & One Penn Plaza |
The floodlights will burn red, white, and blue until December.
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| They made a monkey out of old King Kong |
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| Only $49.99 |
The gift shop still sells WTC snow globes.
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| Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island & New Jersey |
