Posts tagged as Downtown
A Report from the Occupation of Wall Street
Zuccotti Park is a well-manicured, block-long park in the heart of New York City’s financial district that, for the past two days, has been home to a few hundred squatters, anarchists, activists, students, a few drug addicts, several undercover cops and one lone man in a suit. Alternately calling themselves Occupy Wall Street or Take Wall Street or the 99%, they have set up camp, spending the night on rolls of cardboard, yoga mats and bare concrete, as a protest against the abuses carried out by various financial institutions and banks against the people of this country. READ MORE
Tabloid Unveils Handy 9/11 Body Part Map! (And We Improved It)
The New York Post goes big on 9/10 glory with this map that explains where all the human remains were found downtown on 9/11. This isn't just a public service-it's also an argument about the appropriateness of having religious and community centers located downtown. Well we made their map better. Human remains: YOU'RE SHOPPING IN IT. You're BOXING IN IT. You're DRINKING IN IT and ATTENDING CUNY IN IT and you're GOLDMAN SACHSING IN IT.
The End of the 00s: Decade of Suck, by Regina Schrambling
Hate to infringe on Rudy's trademark, but of course the memory cached in my cranial sieve is from right after 9/11. I was out traipsing around the city for a Times story on how restaurants were recovering, and on that Sunday I passed the Odeon on West Broadway. Almost every sidewalk table was occupied, with shiny, happy people swigging mimosas in the sun, literally blocks from the reeking fire. The scene made my lead as a sign of hope, and the owner called to thank me for helping business, but as time's gone by, the reality has looked grim. Those blithe brunchers were ingesting incinerated human beings with their OJ. We were all breathing the same thing. The melting-plastic smell blowing in the wind even way uptown masked something worse. READ MORE
Let's Put That Wall Back Up On Wall Street And Call It A Day
You know what's like even the 24th or 25th worst thing of the maybe 12,000 horrible things about 9/11? The insane inability of any New York state and city agency to reach and then keep to a decision about anything related to lower Manhattan. IT IS 2009! And they are squabbling about sites for the planned performing arts center now, and Jesus, what a mess. This is actually one of the ways in which Bloomberg is most vulnerable in next week's election, if only anyone was running against him.
