Week Eight: October 30-November 5
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Above Christopher Street |
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Nosebleed |
Week 8 brings additional terrorist threat advisories from the government. Daily rumors spread through the city: “don’t take the subway on Saturday.”
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Fort Tryon park |
The A train to 190th Street arrives about the same time that firemen break through police barriers at Ground Zero, protesting cutbacks at the disaster site.
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Langon Chapel |
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Quince |
The Cloisters Museum is beautiful, as always.
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Bonnefort Cloister |
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Canal Street |
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Duarte Square |
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This way |
200 blocks to the south, the Red Cross is active, providing disaster relief from trucks, unused office space, and tents.
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Ma Bell |
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Here Too is New York |
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Jihad Buster |
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The Towelband |
New antennas appear on top of an AT&T building, replacing those that were lost on the North Tower.
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No more candles |
Even as the Parks Department requests an end to public memorials, organized collections of photographs draw crowds.
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September 11 Photo Project |
Halloween brings the first New York death by inhalational anthrax, and the 25th annual Greenwich Village parade.
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Sunflowers crushed from above |
Costumes reflect the tragedy in different ways.
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Pray for whirled peas |
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Aliens love NY |
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MetroMan & MetroGoat |
Police presence is heavy, but many officers get into the spirit of things. Cops with disposable cameras take photos of the more scantily clad revelers.
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Cold |
Of course, not every costume references the tragedy; one man dresses himself and his goat in suits of plastic subway cards.
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A cape in Central Park |
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Police buffer |
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Mile 26 |
On Sunday, the New York City Marathon is run on schedule, dedicated to the heroes and fallen of the attacks.
Security is heavy along the five-borough course. Roads near the finish line are blocked by Parks Department and sanitation trucks filled with sand.
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Sand trucks |
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Win some, lose 7 |
Later that night, the Yankees lose Game 7 of the World Series.